WEBSITE: American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/
The website of the American Medical Informatics Association contains information about its publications and white papers in medical informatics, upcoming conferences, working groups on more focused areas of interest; some areas available only to AMIA members.

BOOK: Shortliffe, E.H. & Perreault, L.E. (Ed). Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2001.

BOOK: van Bemmel, J.H., and M.A. Musen. Handbook of Medical Informatics. New York: Springer, 1997.
A systematic overview for medical and health informatics with contents, exercises, additional information on the web at http://www.mihandbook.stanford.edu/handbook/home.htm.

WEBSITE: Introduction to Medical Informatics
http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/~hripcsa/textbook/
Online lecture notes from a course by Robert Jenders, Robert Sideli, George Hripcsak, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University.

WEBSITE: MLA CE Course Manual: Molecular Biology Information Resources
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/
This is the manual from Renata McCarthy's wonderful full day MLA CE course on molecular biology information resources. It contains examples that make points clear and features a special section on librarian roles in this rapid growth field.

WEBSITE: NCBI Education Page
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/index.html
Online Education materials prepared by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Includes online tutorials for BLAST and some of the Entrez Databases (PubMed, Nucleotides, Structures and OMIM).

JOURNAL ISSUE: Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue.
January 1 of each year.
Alphabetical version of database listing available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/nar/database/a/.

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WEBSITE: National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM
http://www.guideline.gov/
The National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM(NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. Includes an electronic forum, NGC-L for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their development, implementation and use

BOOK: Institute of Medicine. (1990). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Directions for a New Program. M.J. Field and K.N. Lohr (eds.) Washington, DC: National Academy Press

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WEBSITE: HIPAA - The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/
This page from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlines the issues and discussion about HIPAA.

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WEBSITE: Wired for Health and Well-Being: the Emergence of Interactive Health Communication
http://www.health.gov/scipich/pubs/finalreport.html
This excellent overall report on interactive health communication links to an article on Consumers and evaluation of interactive health communication applications.

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BOOK: Berner, E.S. Clinical Decision Support Systems : Theory and Practice. New York: Springer Verlag, 1999.
The book includes chapters on the design, evaluation and application of decision support systems, including the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based diagnostic tools.

WEBSITE: Decision Analysis - Brief Selected Bibliography -
http://library.med.cornell.edu/Library/HTML/decisionbib.html
Prepared by Kristine Alpi, Weill Cornell Medical Library, to accompany a presentation on Decision Analysis at the 2001 MLA Annual Meeting.

WEBSITE: The Field of Decision Analysis - Decision Analysis Society
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb/dafield.html
Site contains links to A Lexicon of Decision Making, References, Courses and syllabi, Web-based decision aids, Journals, Software, Employment Opportunities, and Research Opportunities.

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ARTICLE: Schleyer, T.K., Spallek, H. Dental Informatics: A Cornerstone of the Modern Dental Practice. Journal of the American Dental Association 2001 May; 132(5): 605-13. PubMed article abstract

BOOK: Abbey, L.M., Zimmerman, J.L. Dental Informatics: Integrating Technology into the Dental Environment. New York: Springer Verlag, 1992.

WEBSITE: Dental Informatics Online Community
http://www.dentalinformatics.com/
The virtual, global community for anyone interested in Dental Informatics, funded by the National Library of Medicine.

WEBSITE: Dental Informatics WEBSITE – University of Michigan
http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/

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WEBSITE: D-Lib Forum
http://www.dlib.org
Includes the D-Lib magazine.

WEBSITE & DISCUSSION LIST: IFLANET - DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Resources and Projects
http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.html
The "DIGLIB mailing list" archive is available as well as a regularly updated list of projects, conferences, and publications.

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ARTICLE: van Bemmel JH, Duisterhout JS. Education and training of medical informatics in the medical curriculum. Int J Med Inf 1998 Jun;50(1-3):49-58. PubMed article abstract

WEBSITE: American Medical Informatics Association - Academic and Training Programs
http://www.amia.org/informatics/acad&training/

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BOOK: Dick, Richard S., Steen, Elaine B. and Don E. Detmer (Eds). The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, Revised Edition. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997.
Available online: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5306.html

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BOOK: Goodman, Kenneth W. Ethics, computing and medicine: Informatics and the transformation of health care. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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WEBSITE: The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
http://werbach.com/barebones/
This site serves as an HTML reference guide that claims to list "every official HTML tag in common usage". The guide is available in a variety of languages and formats (html, text, zip) for online, downloaded and printed use. The author also includes a list resources for Web creators.

WEBSITE: Adam's Advanced HTML Guide
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5212/
Provides very clear, concise, and easy to understand lessons on advanced HTML. Topics include tables, frames, meta-tags and more. Introductory lessons on Dynamic HTML and Cascading Stylesheets are also available.

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WEBSITE: Extensible Markup Language (XML^TM)
http://www.w3.org/XML/

ARTICLE: Bosak, Jon. XML and the second generation. Scientific American 1999 May; 280(5):89-93.

BOOK: Harold, Elliotte Rusty. XML: Extensible Markup Language. IDG Books Worldwide, 1998.
Good overview and practical guide.

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WEBSITE: useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's WEBSITE
http://www.useit.com/
Find here the Alert Box, a bi-weekly column on web usability by Jakob Nielsen.

WEBSITE: Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
Several local groups throughout the US and Internationally providing a forum for discussion and education about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).

BOOK: Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1990.
A classic book on design, extends beyond computer usability.

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WEBSITE: The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Take a look at AnatQuest, a browser and database of anatomical information from the project.

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WEBSITE: New Architect (formerly WebCoder.com)
http://webcoder.com/
Tutorials and sample scripts for JavaScript and DHTML. (From webreview.com)

WEBSITE: Webmonkey: JavaScript
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/javascript/
There is a *great* JavaScript tutorial (long but good, you can use the index to find snippets of how-to's) and code library.

BOOK: Anuff, Ed. Java Sourcebook. New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1996
Solid introduction for beginners, includes samples, tutorials, commands and syntax. [about the Java language, not Java script]

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PAPER: Butler, Yvonne (Ernst & Young), Knowledge management - if only you knew what you knew
http://conferences.alia.org.au/shllc1999/papers/butler.html
An interesting paper from the 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference on the nature of knowledge management. It provides a framework for definition of knowledge management and uses client examples to illustrate the issues.

WEBSITE: Knowledge Management Magazine (Online)
http://www.kmmag.com/
Published on a monthly basis, this online KM magazine provides a number of useful articles focusing on basic business strategy, organizational culture, and technological solutions to KM problems. A free subscription to a print version of the magazine is available to business and IT executices working on KM initiatives. -- John A. Hermans, Library Journal, September 1, 1999, p.163.

WEBSITE: Knowledge Management WWW Virtual Library
http://www.brint.com/km/
Maintained by @Brint, an online resource library and information exchange network for business and technology issues, this is perhaps the largest collection of KM sources on the web. Materials range from basic white papers to online discussion forums, a calendar of events, a bookstore, and a KM bibliography. -- John A. Hermans, Library Journal, September 1, 1999, p.163.

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ARTICLE: Friedman C, Hripcsak G. Natural language processing and its future in medicine. Academic Medicine 1999 Aug; 74(8) 890-5. PubMed article abstract

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WEBSITE: Neuroinformatics: The Human Brain Project
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/neuroinformatics/index.cfm
The Human Brain Project is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. Links to the Archives of the Neuroinformatics Interest Group as well as Conferences, Research Grants and Related Servers.

WEBSITE: Neuroinformatics Workbench: USC Brain Project
http://www-hbp.usc.edu/workbench.html
From the site: The 'Neuroinformatics Workbench' is a set of tools being constructed by the USC Brain Project to facilitate development of neuroscience databases and the integration of theory and experiment in neuroscience. The NeuroInformatics Workbench is currently in an early stage of development...
Read about NeuroScholar, a Knowledge-Management system for published neuroscientific information.

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WEBSITE: American Nursing Informatics Association
http://www.ania.org
California-based professional organization for informatics nurses; job board, meeting information, educational opportunities, links to additional nursing and informatics organizations.

WEBSITE: American Medical Informatics Association/Nursing Informatics Work Group
http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/
Stresses the interests of nursing informatics within the larger context of health informatics. Extensive conference information, links to informatics sites, educational resources; some areas available only to NIWG members, including newsletter, meeting minutes, job opportunities.

BOOK: Hannah, Kathryn J., Marion J. Ball and Margaret J.A. Edwards. Introduction to Nursing Informatics. 2nd Ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Introductory text aimed at undergraduates, administrators, and clinical nursing staff which addresses terms and concepts central to a basic understanding of the field.

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BOOK: Lorenzi, N., Riley, R.T., Ball, M.J., Douglas, J.V. (Eds.). Transforming Health Care Through Information. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995.
This book illustrates the complex challenges which health service organizations face in implementing technology changes.

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ARTICLE: Bader SA, Braude RM. "Patient informatics": creating new partnerships in medical decision making. Academic Medicine 1998 Apr;73(4):408-11. PubMed article abstract

ARTICLE: Lewis D. Computer-based approaches to patient education: a review of the literature. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1999 Jul-Aug;6(4):272-82. PubMed article abstract

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JOURNAL ISSUE: Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health.
Proceedings of a national forum. March 23, 1998. Journal of Urban Health 1998 Dec;75(4)
Presentations from the forum are available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nyam/nyam.html.

BOOK: Perrin, Edward B.; Durch, Jane S.; Skillman, Susan M. (Eds.); Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants, National Research Council. Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
Available online: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6487.html

WEBSITE: Public Health Informatics Resources
http://www.phha.mlanet.org/activities/phi.html
Carolyn Bridgewater, Louisiana State University, and Kristine Alpi maintain this list of PHI resources including links to PHI in practice, organizations, educational opportunities and publications.

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WEBSITE: eICD ICD-9-CM Lookup Page
http://www.eicd.com/EICDMain.htm
A commercial site provided by eICD.com that allows ICD-9-CM lookups online.

WEBSITE: Health Level 7
http://www.hl7.org/

WEBSITE: LOINC
http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc/
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) provides a standard set of universal names and codes for identifying individual laboratory results, clinical observations and diagnostic study observations.

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BOOK: Field, Marilyn J. (Ed.). Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.
Available online: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5296.html
"A general, relatively nontechnical, but thorough overview of the assessment of telemedicine technology." Booklist

WEBSITE: NLM National Telemedicine Initiative
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/telemedinit.html
Information about NLM and other government funded Telemedicine projects. Links to other useful websites.

WEBSITE: Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE)
http://tie.telemed.org/
The TIE provides an all-inclusive platform without bias for information on telemedicine. The Telemedicine Information Exchange was created and is maintained by the Telemedicine Research Center with major support from the National Library of Medicine.

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WEBSITE: Association for Veterinary Informatics
http://www.avinformatics.org/
This site connects users with all sorts of veterinary informatics resources including the AVI-L(VETINFO) Veterinary Informatics Mailing List, the AVI newsletters (through 1998), and the link collection on the Veterinary Informatics Resources page.

ARTICLE: Smith RD, Williams, M. Applications of informatics in veterinary medicine. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 2000 Jan; 88(1): 49-55. BMLA PubMed Central Full-Text Article.

ARTICLE: Talbot RB. Veterinary medical informatics. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1991 July 1; 199(1): 52-71.

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WEBSITE: CENDI Projects - Taxonomies, terminologies and controlled vocabularies
http://www.cendi.gov/proj_cont_vocab.html

WEBSITE: Fact Sheet: UMLS ® Metathesaurus ®
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlsmeta.html

WEBSITE: MeSH Staff Presentations and Publications
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/staffpubs.html

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WEBSITE: webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/
From Wired Digital, a starting point for tutorials and sample scripts in Java, JavaScript, Perl, XML, databases, and more. Also good for maintaining current awareness regarding emerging web technologies. Includes a section on browser compatibility.

BOOK: Siegel, David. Creating Killer WEBSITEs. Second Ed. Indianapolis, IN: HaydenBooks, 1997
An overview of design on the web, some HTML and tool tips. Excellent for planning and designing stage. (see also http://www.killersites.com/)

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