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Baby
CareLink (www.cstlink.com)
Using
Internet technologies, Baby CareLink supports the care of low
birth weight infants by bringing together families, clinicians and
all parties involved in the care process. Developed at Boston’s
Center for Clinical Computing, Baby CareLink utilizes a secure
platform and incorporates clinical practice guidelines,
videoconferencing and knowledge bases in multiple media formats. A
recently completed two year clinical trial showed reduced length
of stay and increased satisfaction with the system of care.
CareWeb-CareGroup
Healthcare System (www.home.caregroup.org)
CareWeb
offers a single, powerful web-based destination for both providers
and consumers of health information. The provider portal provides
thirty subject headings and three hundred knowledge bases.
Included is software that can be used by health care employees to
connect to mainframe applications, conduct literature searches,
and facilitate managed care referrals and other business
processes. Physicians can receive feedback on their performance,
as well as customized medical data and news. In process is a
portal called the communicator that will enable consumers to make
appointments, renew prescriptions, and receive individualized
health information.
Every Block
A Village Online (EBV) (www.ebvonline.org)
Every Block A Village Online uses in-home technology to bridge the
digital divide in a low-income neighborhood on Chicago's Westside.
Funded by the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration and West Suburban Hospital, EBV Online provides
Internet access to block leaders and public facilities throughout
a 57-block area. The Home Page supplies information on community
health care resources and access to medical providers via email.
Use of this in-home technology has resulted to increased
communication among neighbors and greater collaboration on
community safety and improvement projects.
Global
Reproductive Health Forum (www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf)
The
Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF)is an interactive website
and email network whose mission is to make current and accurate
reproductive health information available to the global community
from a wide variety of perspectives. The website provides
excellent reproductive health information, with a special focus on
human rights, political, and gender concerns. Through its outreach
efforts, the GRHF also helps reproductive health and rights
workers, researchers, advocates, and NGOs in developing countries
learn to employ and become active participants in this medium.
Healthfinder
(www.healthfinder.gov)
healthfinder®
is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services
information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. It features selected online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help
groups, as well as the government agencies and nonprofit
organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
Launched in April 1997, healthfinder® now provides information on
how to select quality health care, including health plans,
providers and long-term care, and how to identify sound health
information on the Internet.
HealthLink
(www.healthlink.org.za)
HealthLink,
a program of the NGO Health Systems Trust (HST), uses the Internet
to promote equitable and comprehensive health care in South
Africa. HealthLink furnishes information and support to all levels
of the health system. It disseminates health and health systems
information through its website, supports the websites of other
health NGOs and research institutions, provides basic
communication to remote areas through an off-line email network,
trains workers to use the email system, and runs email discussion
groups on a variety of pressing health issues confronting the
country.
La Plaza
Telecommunity (www.laplaza.org)
La Plaza Telecommunity, a nonprofit community network in Taos, New
Mexico, is improving communication and information sharing in
northern New Mexico. La Plaza offers tricultural residents access
to information technology resources, education in computer and
Internet technology, and a virtual library of regional information
and resources. La Plaza has created several health applications,
including the Diabetes Wellness Connection and an online
compendium of traditional and alternative health resources. In the
works is a culturally appropriate web-based nutrition module,
funded by the National Cancer Institute.
PaperChase
(www.paperchase.com)
PaperChase
is a search program enabling the user to search the MEDLINE,
Aidsline, HealthSTAR, and OLDMEDLINE databases simultaneously.
PaperChase combines these databases into one file,
eliminating duplicates. It guides the user to the special terms
used by the National Library of Medicine to classify the medical
literature, and it presents references in the best medical
journals first.
QuitNet (www.quitnet.org)
QuitNet
combines proven scientific methods with web-based tools to deliver
round-the clock personalized support to smokers whenever they need
it. Users are classified by stage of change and tracked over time.
Custom cessation strategies are recommended; Quit Tips.
Anniversary messages, a library of information and daily tobacco
news are some of the services available to subscribers. QuitNet is
partnered with the American Cancer Society’s Massachusetts
Smokers’ Quitline.
SatelLife (www.healthnet.org)
Through
HealthNet, its global information and communication network,
SatelLife harnesses the power of information technology to build
healthier communities in the developing world. Built by
partnerships with ministries of health, other medial institutions,
and NGOs, HealthNet consists of many networks geared to local
needs. Regional host computers and remote computers in the cities
and countryside allow physicians, nurses, research medical
librarians, and health managers to communicate via email, and
enable them to obtain information on topics like cardiovascular
health, HIV/AIDS, drugs, and health systems research.
State
Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (www.cdc.gov/tobacco)
State
Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) is an
electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical
state-level data on tobacco-use prevention and control. Developed
by the CDC, STATE is the first-ever online compilation of this
information, which includes data on the prevalence of tobacco use,
tobacco control laws, the health impact and costs associated with
tobacco use, and tobacco agriculture and manufacturing. Users can
browse information for a specific state or a summary for all fifty
states and the District of Columbia.
Tachyon,
Inc. (www.tachyon.net)
Tachyon
provides affordable high-speed bi-directional access to the
Internet and other Internet Protocol networks via small satellite
dishes. Since no telephone links are required, Tachyon can deliver
high-performance access across broad geographical areas. It has
particular potential for rural areas and developing countries and
also for distributed enterprise and e-commerce networks and public
institutions like clinics and schools. With organizations like the
International Red Cross, the company is investigating a variety of
public health applications, including medical education,
diagnostic collaboration, outcomes analysis, epidemiology, and
library access.
Tribal
Connections Project (www.tribalconnections.org)
The
Tribal Connections Project is helping rural and remote American
Indian and Alaska Native communities in the Pacific Northwest
develop information infrastructure and Internet connectivity. The
goal is to minimize isolation and improve access to social and
health resources for these communities. Funded by the National
Library of Medicine to reduce the "digital divide" and
health disparities between majority and minority populations, the
Tribal Connections Project negotiates discount rates, acquires and
installs computer and network equipment, provides training in
retrieval of information resources, and maintains its own health
information website.
Your Cancer
Risk (www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu)
Your
Cancer Risk, developed by the Harvard Center for Cancer
Prevention, provides individuals with personalized assessments of
their risk of breast, prostate, colon, or lung cancer. After
filling out brief questionnaires, users receive a description of
their via a colored bar graph, which they can electronically
manipulate to experience "virtual" risk reduction. Users
learn where to focus their prevention efforts, how to make
lifestyle changes by "clicking on" personalized
strategies, and can obtain cancer-specific fact sheets that
explain the link between exposure and disease.
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