| 1. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ | | | Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
www.ahcpr.gov |
| 2. | Center for Law and the Public's Health | | | Information on the Center at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Features resources on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and scholars.
www.publichealthlaw.net |
| 3. | Division of Laboratory Systems | | | Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides standards and guidelines for laboratories as well as training.
www.phppo.cdc.gov |
| 4. | 601Help | | | Provides information about compliance with IEC 60601-1, the international product safety standard for electrical medical equipment, as well as the standard's national variants. Includes explanations and interpretations of requirements, links to other sites, and articles on related subjects.
www.601help.com |
| 5. | Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation | | | Provides multidisciplinary leadership and programs that enhance the ability of the professions, health care institutions, and industry to understand, develop, manage, and use medical instrumentation and related technologies safely and effectively.
www.aami.org |
| 6. | Medical Outcomes Trust | | | Dedicated to improving health and health care by promoting the science of outcomes measurement, and the development, evaluation and distribution of standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care. Includes online publications.
www.outcomes-trust.org |
| 7. | ECRI | | | Formerly Emergency Care Research Institute, the agency provides publications, information, and consulting services internationally for healthcare technology and patient safety. Includes classification guides, evaluation services, clinical alerts, data bases, and links to related sites.
www.ecri.org |
| 8. | NCQA: National Committee for Quality Assurance | | | Provides information about the quality of national managed care plans to enable consumers to evaluate health plan performance. Includes links to accreditation and certification programs, compliance audits, health plan report cards, and credentialing data.
www.ncqa.org |
| 11. | MCHB Webcast | | | View live webcasts, webcast archives, conference archives and training resources from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
www.mchcom.com |
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