It is important to keep up or knowledgeable about the development of managed care, other health care endeavors and professional issues. Keeping up can be done in a short time by using WWW reading national journals or databases described herein.
USERS BEWARE! Remember some of these internet addresses may be under revision or outdated. Read carefully any site you link to, be careful not to sign up to pay fees.
For example watch out for the subscription address: Subscription Message" - THIS MEANS YOU'LL RECEIVE A BILL!
MHCare-L - A discussion group
Discussion of topics pertaining to managed health care and continuous quality improvement. But you might have a fee to pay if you see a message like this: Listserve@mizzou1.missouri.edu: "subscribe mhcare-1 your name"
Having current knowledge allows you to "keep thinking" about how you will fit your skills into the employment market and how you will influence changes going on around you. Review the suggested resources for information below.
After reading about resources below, select one to explore and describe in the text box how your ability to access and use information would be added to your resume.
Internet Grateful Med v.2.0 (*IGM)
The National Library of Medicine made its MEDLINE databased available over the World Wide Web. You'll need to contact them to sign up for a user code so they can bill you for the time you use their database. However, they now disclose how they figure out the charge and it seems that, since it only takes milliseconds to run a search on their mega-computer MEDLARS systems, it's not too expensive. For example, a search for "telemedicine" that yields 281 citations costs about $1.00, depending on how many abstracts you actually view. The more characters you download, the more it costs. Internet Grateful Med requires Netscape v.2.0 or Internet Explorer v.2.0. Find out more by emailing them at mms@nlm.nih.gov, or visit the web site at: http://igm.nlm.nkh.gov.
HealthSTAR Database
Co-produced by the National Library of Medicine and the American Hospital Association, it contains citations (with abstracts if available) to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. It focuses in the clinical (emphasizing the evaluation of patient outcomes and the effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes) and the nonclinical (emphasizing health administration, economics, planning and policy) aspects of health care delivery. Get all the facts on HealthSTAR at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/publications/factsheets/healthstar.html.
National Association of Managed Care Physicians
The mission of the National Association of Managed Care Physicians is to enhance the ability of practicing physicians and other health care professionals through education, research and communication, to succeed in managed care environments and integrated delivery systems. Its individual membership consists of medical directors, physicians, medical students and residents and other health care professionals who are employed by or are working in managed care environments across the national. Membership includes free access to the Physicians Online service. http://www.namcp.com/
Web Site for Pediatric Health Care Providers
National Database Proivdes Access to Information for Persons with AIDS/HIV
To link to listing of journals you can read to keep up with managed care click here.
In 1945 Vannevar Bush foretold issues of our time.
The Federal Telemedicine Gateway
New Tools, New Challenges: Computer-Mediated Community via Distance Education
HELIX - Healthcare Education Learning & Information eXchange. This has a not-for-charge registration (but read to make sure). At this site you should be able to link to Patient Education materials, health care associations, and eventual virtual reality games.
The Rural Information Center Health Service, known as RICHS, is a joint project of the Office of Rural Health Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Agricultural Library (NAL), United States Department of Agriculture
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