Links

Please feel free to use the following Web links to important sites in a variety of healthcare topics. Each of more than 500 listings provides a brief description and main telephone number as well as an up-to-date Web link. Just click on the topic or subtopic to reach the category you are seeking.

How it works: Let's say you are looking for the topic of “materials management.” In the listing below, click on the heading for “materials management” or on the subheading underneath it, such as “group purchasing organization (GPO).” Clicking on a heading or subheading will take you to the actual listings.

Hospitals

• Hospital locators
• National hospital member organizations
• Hospital executives
• Hospital governance
• Hospital financing
• Hospital billing
• Hospital medical staff

Other healthcare organizations

• Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)
• Nursing homes
• Blood banks

Materials management

• Materials management organizations
• Supply chain consultants
• Group purchasing organizations (GPOs)
• Medical devices and instrumentation
• Manufacturers and distributors
• Orthopedic implants
• Reprocessing single use devices
• Imaging consultants

Healthcare data

• Health information
• Terminology
• Utilization data

Information technology (IT)

• IT associations
• IT consultants
• Handhelds

Compliance

• Compliance associations
• Private oversight
• Federal agencies

Healthcare professions

• Chiropractors
• Education
• Mental health
• Midwives
• Nursing
• Licensed practical nurses (LPNs)
• Physicians: see other categories
• Physician Assistants (PAs)
• Podiatrists

Physician organizations

• Reference
• National organizations
• Clinical specialty societies
• Non-clinical national physician groups
• Ethnic physician organizations
• State medical societies
• Christian physicians
• International
• Foreign medical associations

Physician practice management

• Reference
• Membership groups
• Managed care consultants
• Managed care degree programs
• Physician recruitment and locum tenens
• Medical administrators
• Transcriptionists
• Voice recognition systems
• Billing and payment
• Practice management software
• Architects

Medical Education

• Lists
• Examinations, credentialing and accreditation
• General medical education
• Medical schools
• Public health schools
• Graduate Medical Education (GME)
• Teaching hospitals
• Continuing medical education (CME)
• Medical students and residents organizations
• Medical education IT
• Federal organizations
• Organizations involved in medical education reform

Physician oversight

• Testing and board certification
• Physician licensure

Medical-legal

• Health law attorneys
• Malpractice reform groups
• Malpractice insurance information
• Malpractice insurance brokers and underwriters
• Malpractice insurance companies
• Ethics in healthcare

Pharma

• Membership organizations in pharmaceuticals
• Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) companies

Health insurance

• Managed care organizations
• Managed care oversight
• Managed care information
• Managed care consultants
• Managed care policy groups
• Managed care physicians
• Disease management
• Managed behavioral health
• Independent practice associations (IPAs)
• Preferred provider organizations (PPOs)
• Managed care plans
• Managed care regulators
• Employers
• Employee benefits

Other health care groups

• Charitable foundations
• Think tanks
• Voluntary organizations

Safety

• Safety organizations
• Infection control
• Sharps safety
• Sterile processing groups
• Sterile processing consultants
• Sterilization

Quality

• Quality improvement
• Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
• Lean health care