General Web SitesThe US National Library of Medicince's site at www.nlm.nih.gov has a huge amount
of online literature aimed at many people, including health care
professionals. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed
- a biomedical journal literature source; Toxicology and Environmental
Health - a toxicology and environmental health web site, and; ClinicalTrials.gov, which
provides nformation on federally and privately supported clinical
research in human volunteers. BioMed Central at www.biomedcentral.com/home
is a huge resource on many topics. MedBioWorld
is a
web site with tens of thousands of links to journals, articles, and
databases. I searched on hepatitis B and most the
references that came back were not free. Anatomy and HistologyThe SPL Anatomy Browser provides a hierarchical view of human anatomy over the web via a Java Applet. It is a joint project of Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Massachusetts and Division of Neurosciences at Harvard Medical School. Another version of the browser is available at www.ai.mit.edu/projects/anatomy_browser/index.html. The Visible Human Project is an initiative by the US National Library of Medicine to produce anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. The 1918 edition of Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body is freely available online at www.bartleby.com/107/ A musculoskeletal atlas of the human body by Carol Teitz and Dan Graney is freely provided at http://courses.washington.edu/hubio553/atlas/index.html. The University of Wisconsin Medical School provides Anatomy has free teaching resources at www.anatomy.wisc.edu/teaching.html, including gross anatomy, histology, and neuro-resouces. |
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An anatomy of the hand is a free web site at www.eatonhand.com/hom/hom033.htm.
The Digital Slice of Life has a collection of anatomical images freely available at www-medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/sol/sss/.
A series of Anatomy-Histology Tutorials from the University of Utah is freely available online at www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HISTHTML/HISTO.html.
A histology tutorial by Thomas George, MD and Wojciech Pawlina, MD from the University of Florida is available at medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/histo.
Robert Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is a production of the Departments of Surgery, Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology at The University of Louisville is a series of DVD's available at videoatlas.louisville.edu.
The eSkeletons project focusses on the study of human and primate comparative anatomy.
The US National Health Museum site has an Access Excellence Resource Center that includes a visual library of the human skeleton from x-rays.
The web site bio.com is a good resource for biotechnology and pharmaceutical news and software.
The biohealthmatics.com site has a section on pharmaceutical at downloads.biohealthmatics.com/HealthIT/PharmaceuticalSoftware.
Many people working in this area regard medical or health informatics as storing a retreiving medical information with computers. This includes patient record systems, disease and diagnostic databases, and enterprise software often found in hospitals and health institutions. While there is some overlap, this is mostly distinct from medical device software that includes software for bioscience tasks, such as blood analysis, EKG's, and so on. This is also mostly distinct from software used in 'bioinformatics' that is mostly thought of software for research work such tasks as gene and protein analysis. See the page Resources for Research in Medical Computing for more discussion on bioinformatics./p>
Health Informatics World Wide is
an international health informatics index site.
The Australian government e-Health Research Center has health data integration, Cancer Stage Interpretation System, Rehabilitation Assessment Decision Support, e-Health Metadata and Ontologies, and Medical Image Watermarking. The Metadata and Ontologies project is particularly interesting. It includes tools that allows to documents and other data sources to be queried in a more structured manner than just searching for keywords.
Medical Computing Today is a web site focussing on computing and related technologies for physicians and other health care professionals. They have scholarly selection of content, with a priority on peer reviewed articles. A fanstastic resource, there is wealth of information on this site.
The site Medical Informatics is a hub listing resources on the subject. It includes news, websites, discussion lists, articles, and associations.
Dr Vicki Sauter, Professor of Information Systems, at the University of Missouri, St Louis maintains a Page on Health Informatics that provides some interesting information.
The vendor CambridgeSoft
is a provider of life sciences enterprise software.