The growing tidal wave of World Wide Web sites -- many of which offer extensive resources on healthcare and medicine -- is made manageable by this guide's Best of the Net approach. Its practical reviews of more than 150 of the best healthcare management and medicine Web resources help healthcare professionals decide if a site is worth their time and attention, and if it has potential for meeting their clinical or healthcare management information needs.
The Best of the Net will leave people excited--and perhaps a bit overwhelmed--by the incredible amount of healthcare management and medical information now available online. From Hot Heart Links at the Cleveland Clinic (http://www.heartcenter.ccf.org:8080/www_eps/hot_hart/heart.htm) and the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (http://www.usc.edu/), to Prostate Cancer Screening (http://kpt1.tricon.net/) and Computers in Nursing Interactive (http://www.cini.com/), there seems to be a site for just about everyone in the healthcare business. The reviews found in Online Guide to Healthcare Management and Medicine and its companion online source, Greatest Hits (http://www.greatesthits.com) help people avoid the clutter and find the clear, authoritative information they need for their organization and health services practice.
Organizations ranging from the Mayo Clinic and IBM to America Online and Columbia/HCA have already realized that healthcare is one of the Internet's most powerful applications. Now, it's time for healthcare professionals to tune in -- if only to avoid getting tuned out. With more than thousands of commercial sites now on the Web -- and hundreds of new sites established each week --people find it's comforting to know they can turn to this guide to address healthcare business and patient care problems.
This book is designed is for healthcare professionals including executives, managers, physicians and providers -- whether they have just moved onto the healthcare information superhighway; have online experience, but are eager to uncover new, clinical and practical management resources; or want to save time and energy in finding information on better patient care or enhanced management techniques.
Unlike many other guides on the Internet, the Best of the Net won't go out of date anytime soon. Its practical reviews, which highlight site success factors such content, design, interactivity, navigation, access, and links, are updated regularly through Greatest Hits at http://www.greatesthits.com/. Stop by Greatest Hits to learn about site updates as well as information on new Healthcare Management and Medicine sites.
