www.healthcarebasics.blogspot.com
Healthcare Basics, written by Nancy Finn, provides relevant commentary on issues that promote
the health and well being of consumers. Key topics include: electronic medical records, personal
health records, email, Internet resources, personalized medicine, privacy, healthcare finance
and funding, patient-centered care, telemedicine, and new digital technologies in healthcare.
www.e-patients.net
E-patients.net consists of articles, opinions pieces, and personal stories that focus on
empowered patients who are engaged in their health and healthcare decisions.
trusted.md
Trusted.MD Network is a healthcare blogging network whose mission includes helping traditional
healthcare organizations with engagement in social media initiatives and providing online
information services for the benefit of healthcare consumers and professionals. Trusted.MD
also publishes a comprehensive directory of leading healthcare blogs and an on-line e-newsletter.
www.diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com
Disease Management is an ongoing forum for information, insights and musings on the medical
home, chronic care management, the patient-centered care model, informatics, pay for
performance and other health insurance initiatives.
www.healthbeatblog.com
This blog focuses on the inner workings of the health care industry and reports on
legislation and other issues affecting health care.
blogs.wsj.com/health
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on the business of the healthcare industry
and trends in healthcare.
runningahospital.blogspot.com
This is the blog of Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a large not-for-profit
academic teaching medical center in Boston, and includes insightful thoughts about hospitals,
medicine, and health care issues.
www.thehealthcareblog.com (THCB)
This controversial, entertaining blog includes opinions about government and healthcare
delivery; discussions of electronic health records and other HIT and patient care issues.
www.healthfinder.com
Healthfinder® is a 'gateway' website that links to selected online publications, clearinghouses,
databases, and over 1,500 websites and provides information on every conceivable health topic.
Healthfinder® was developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
health.yahoo.com
This website is a compendium of everyday health and wellness topics including diseases,
conditions, fitness, nutrition, articles advice written at a level that patients will understand.
www.cdc.gov
This website was developed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to provide all of the
stakeholders in healthcare with information on public health issues, including travel advisories
and precautions about disease outbreaks.
www.familydoctor.org
This site from the American Academy of Family Physicians takes the patient to links on
conditions from A to Z, and includes a patient guide to choosing a family doctor, and a unique
set of resources about over the counter solutions to health conditions.
www.mayoclinic.com
This website provides the standard information about various diseases and drug listings and
also includes health tools to monitor disease, discussion options including the ability to chat
with a specialist, links to the latest health news, information and blogs, and a first aid guide.