Internet Resources: Health Sciences & Informatics

Library Instruction Program
Health Care Administration & Informatics 250
Allied Health Information Methods - Administrative Writing, John Lynch
Spring 2008

General Resources

UWM Catalog [PantherCat] https://millib.wisconsin.edu/
Indexes to Articles and Online Resources http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/index.html
Accessing Restricted Resources from Off Campus http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/help/faq/offcampus-access.html
RefWorks http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#refworks
RefWorks Quick Start Guide http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/guides/refworks/
Evaluating Internet Resources http://www.uwm.edu/~maryb/evalweb.htm
Evaluating Health Information http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
Scholarly vs. Popular Publications http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/Scholarly.html
Information Resources Pyramid [Sladen Library] http://sladen.hfhs.org/library/staff/ebm-resource-pyramid.htm

Health Sciences Databases and Tutorials

MEDLINE [PubMed] http://www.pubmed.gov
MEDLINE [PubMed] with UWM holdings http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=wiuwiblib
MEDLINE tutorial
[short]
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf
MEDLINE tutorial
[long]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health] http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#cinahl
CINAHL tutorial http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/
BioMed Central http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#biomed
Nursing & Allied Health Collection http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#nahc
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#healnae
MD Consult http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/databases/#mdconsult

Health Sciences Multi-link Sites

MEDLINEplus http://www.medlineplus.gov
healthfinder.gov http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Martindale's Health Science Guide http://www.martindalecenter.com/HSGuide.html
Management Resources for Healthcare Executives http://www.pohly.com/index.html
Stanford Health Library http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/
Medical Eponyms [who named it] http://www.whonamedit.com
Health on the Net Foundation

http://www.hon.ch/

Health and Medical Informatics Sites

Health Informatics Worldwide http://www.hiww.org/
American Health Information Management Association http://www.ahima.org/
American Medical Informatics Association http://www.amia.org
Health Information Management Systems Society http://www.himss.org
Nursing Informatics [Duke University] http://onlineinformatics.com/

Health Sciences Organizations and Government Agencies

World Health Organization [WHO] http://www.who.int/en/
American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
DIRLINE - Directory of Health Organizations http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/
Wisconsin Health Statistics http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/stats/index.htm
National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

page contact: maryb@uwm.edu