Check out These Top e-Health Sites
Check out These Top e-Health Sites
Here is a partial list of popular e-health Web sites.
- ADoctorInYourHouse.com (www.adoctorinyourhouse.com) This site features celebrities discussing the serious illnesses they have experienced along with leading medical experts providing health information.
- allHealth (www.allhealth.com) This site is run by the women-oriented iVillage, and offers features on health care issues, as well as special-interest communities and support groups.
- AMA Health Insight (www.ama-assn.org/consumer.htm) This site was launched in 1997 by the American Medical Association in Chicago. All of the information is approved by an editorial board.
- America’s Doctor (www.americasdoctor.com) This site provides free access to board-certified or board-eligible physicians 24 hours a day.
- drkoop.com (www.drkoop.com) This popular site is led by C. Everett Koop, MD, former U.S. surgeon general.
- Drug Infonet (www.druginfonet.com) This site includes details from package inserts and consumer pamphlets for many drugs.
- Emd.com (www.emd.com) This site is integrated with an Internet-based medication management and charting system designed to help physicians improve patient compliance and outcomes.
- Hardin Meta Directory (www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html) This site is sponsored by the University of Iowa. It groups medical links by category.
- HealthAnswers.com (www.healthanswers.com) This site includes news plus a drug database.
- Health Central (www.healthcentral.com) This site offers general-interest information as well as reports from TV and radio physician Dean Edell.
- Healthfinder (www.healthfinder.gov) This site is the government’s directory of authoritative health information.
- HealthAtoZ.com (www.healthatoz.com) This site allows users to personalize the home page with news and features targeted to their interests.
- Healtheon/WebMD (www.webmd.com) This site offers information for both physicians and consumers. Companies such as Microsoft have invested in this site.
- InteliHealth (www.intelihealth.com) This site is a joint venture of Aetna U.S. Healthcare and Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Health Care system in Baltimore.
- Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (www.mayohealth.org) The editors of this site are physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
- MediConsult.com (www.mediconsult.com) This site, run by an independent consumer-health marketing company based in New York, provides peer-reviewed educational materials.
- MedHelp International (www.medhelp.org) This site is run by an independent, nonprofit organization.
- MedicineNet.com (www.medicinenet.com) This site claims all of its health news and resources are produced by doctors.
- Medscape (www.medscape.com) This site is geared toward physicians and is organized by medical specialties. It offers a consumer link through CBS HealthWatch.
- OnHealth (www.onhealth.com) This site offers information from major medical journals and hospitals.
- ThriveOnline (www.thriveonline.com) This site is a subsidiary of Oxygen Media, a women’s Web and cable TV company. It is targeted to women’s health issues.
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