National Clinical Links
Cultural Competency Curriculum for Disaster Preparedness and Crisis Response - Training portals for physicians, PA-Cs, nurses, clinic staff and emergency preparedness responders.
Health Disparities Collaboratives
Health Resources and Services Administration
Bureau of Primary Health Care – Clinical Quality : The Bureau’s site includes collaboratives, quality and culture, resources, links, patient satisfaction surveys, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
National Association of Community Health Centers
American Medical Informatic Association: The AMIA is dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Institute of Healthcare Improvement
Improving Chronic Illness Care: The ICIC is a program provided by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation.
Medical Group Management Association
Society for General Internal Medicine
Academy of Primary Care Physicians
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
The California Asthma Public Health Initiative
Regional Sites
Washington State Department of Health
Washington State local health departments
DOH Office of Communtiy Wellness and Prevention: The Department of Health’s Office of Community Wellness and Prevention is a resource for information about asthma, breast and cervical health, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, nutrition and exercise, and tobacco prevention.
Child Profile: Washington State’s health promotion and immunization registry site.
Washington Violence Against Women Network
Stepping Up: Created by the University of Washington School of Nursing in cooperation with the First Steps program funded by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Health and Recovery Services Administration.
Washington State Dental Association
Washington State Medical Association
Health Professions Quality Assurance: The Washington State Department of Health’s Office of Health Professions Quality Assurance is responsible for protecting public health and safety by regulating competency and quality of nearly 300,000 health care providers in Washington State.
Group Health Center for Health Studies: The Group Health Center for Health Studies explores innovation in the authentic world of population-based health care.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Sites for Clinical Information Evidence-based Medicine and Practice Guidelines
National Library of Medicine: The library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
CME Peer review: Directed by the University of Pennsylvania Primary Care News.
Preventing Chronic Disease: Public health research, practice, and policy.
Medline Plus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in Medline Plus and give easy access to medical journal articles. Medline Plus also has extensive information about drugs, and illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.
National Guideline Clearinghouse: This clearinghouse provides information regarding the US clinical practice guidelines and evidence based medicine clearinghouse.
The Cochrane Collaboration: The international evidence-based collaboration includes library database and training resources.
The Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) at McMaster University conducts research in the field of health information science and is dedicated to the generation of new knowledge about the nature of health and clinical information problems, the development of new information resources to support evidence-based health care, and the evaluation of various innovations in overcoming health care information problems. (Click on "Projects" for evidence-based medicine).
Free Medical Journals promotes free access to medical journals on-line.
Health Leaders Media is a leading multi-platform medica company dedicated to meeting the business information needs of healthcare executives and professionals.
Lumetra is a healthcare consulting organization dedicated to improving the quality, safety, and integrity of healthcare.
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program addresses broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide.
Kiaser Permanente Community Wellness Library
2007 NAEPP Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3)
National Asthma and Prevention Program
Data
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable trend data, CensusScope is designed for both generalists and specialists.
WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
FedStats is the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
National Center for Health Statistics is a service of the CDC that provides statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people.
State Data Center Program is an official source of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census Bureau.
CDC’s Epidemiology Program Office
National Center for Health Statistics Pubhlication: Healthy Untied States 2006
Toolbox
The following documents and presentations are from the Partnering for Best Practice, HDC Collaborative, Phase II Learning Summit 2006.
Preparing for Access & Practice Redesign
Helping People Change: Skill-Building for Self-Management Support
How to upload documents to the HDNR site
How to download uploaded items
How to get access to the Pacific Cluster Virtual Office & Listservs
Eight Characteristics High Performance Teams
Types of People Often Found in Teams
How to annotate Excel spreadsheets