Health Care Administration

• Commercial Sites
• Discussion/Mailing Lists
• General Sites
• Hawaii Sites
• HIPAA

Commercial Sites

• HealthGrades, Inc. - Provides information on hospital patient safety activities to consumers, payers, and employers. A fee is required for detailed reports.
• 100 Top Hospitals - Benchmarks for Success - Solucient's Annual Study

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Discussion/Mailing Lists

• HSR-L: Health Services Research

A forum for discussion of the American health care system.

To subscribe send email to: LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE HEALTHPOL yourfirstname yourlastname

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General Sites

• AHRQ - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
• Child Health Toolbox - provides information on how performance measurement can be used to measure the quality of care furnished to children in programs such as Medicaid, SCHIP, and Title V maternal and child health programs.
• American Hospital Association
  • Also check the AHA list of over 200 Links to leaders in the hospital and healthcare industry.
• American Hospital Directory
• AHIMA - The American Health Information Management Association site contains links to the AHIMA Journal, Practice Guidelines, consumer advice, CME, and member information.
• BoardSource - How to build effective non-profit boards.
• CMS - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
• The Coding Center - A coding and reimbursement resource, from the Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Medical Societies.
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care - The Dartmouth Atlas Project works to accurately describe how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States.
• ECRI - (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) an independent nonprofit health services research agency.
• HCUPnet, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - "A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level."
• Healthcare Information Systems Directory - contains a listing of hospital software and contact information for the vendors which produce and sell the software
• Healthgrades.com - Source for healthcare quality ratings and advisory services.
• Infection Control Guidelines - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• KaiserEDU.org - Acess to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates.
• LLRX (Law Library Resource Exchange) - Finding Law-Related Internet Sites is an extensive listing regularly updated
• National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information
• NIH Clinical Center - Nursing resources.
• Nursing Home Compare - From the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, provides detailed information about the past performance of Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes.
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration
• Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care and Social Service Workers (1998 Revised)
• Pam Pohly's Net Guide - Toolbox for Health Managers & Administrators
• Privacy of Health Records - Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

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Hawaii Sites

• Hawaii Employer's Council - Employment and labor relations information
• Hawaii State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
• Professional and Vocational Licensing (PVL)
• Hawaii State Department of Health
• Hawaii State Legislature
• Bill Status & Documents, including Hawaii Revised Statutes - Hawaii State Legislature
• Medical Fee Schedule Under the Workers' Compensation Law

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HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Information for consumers, employers, state regulators, and self-guided nonfederal governmental plans
• CMS Forms
• Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy - Association of American Medical Colleges
• Health Privacy Project
• TMA HIPAA Resource Center - Texas Medical Association
• HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - American Medical Association
• HIPAA Readiness Collaborative - Hawaii Health Information Corporation
• HIPAA Resources - University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library
• HIPPA Standards - American Hospital Administration
• HIPAAdvisory - Phoenix Health Systems
• Office for Civil Rights - Privacy of Health Records

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