Lists -Health Search (applesforhealth.com) Provides search engines and directories for most major health issues. Service providers include doctors, dentists, hospitals, and alternative. Conditions and treatments include diseases, injuries, poisons, symptoms, tests, drugs, drug interactions, and surgical procedures. Specialties include children, men, women, and seniors. Also includes three comprehensive search engines and a gym locator. 6-99 Dentists (American Dental Association) Provides links to dentists by state, city, and specialty. Dentists (Doctorline) Provides links to dentists by state, city, and specialty. Dentists (GTE - BigBook) Provides links to hospitals by state, city, and specialty. Doctor Finder (American Medical Association) Search the American Medical Association's database of physicians by name or specialty for any city in the US. Doctors (Doctorline) Provides links to doctors by state, city, and specialty. Doctors (GTE - BigBook) Provides links to hospitals by state, city, and specialty. Eye Doctor Finder (American Academy of Opthalmology) Search the American Academy of Opthalmology for an opthalmologist anywhere in the US. Find Support Groups (applesforhealth) support-group.com offers Bulletin Boards, National Organizations, Support Group Listings, Internet Resources, and More. HMO's (Doctorline) Provides links to HMO's by state and city. Hospitals (GTE - BigBook) Provides links to hospitals by state, city, and specialty. Hotlines - Search Health Hotlines This website offers the Health Hotlines database and is organized into sections called "fields." "Organization Name," "City," "State," etc., are each separate fields. Together, these fields make up the full description of each organization in the database. This is called a "record." Your search results will be made up of database records that match your search question. Organizations Providing Case Management Services (Center for Healthcare Information) Provides a list of agencies by state, county, area code, keyword, and zip code. Try specifying state alone first. 11-99 Physician Search (American Medical Association) News For-Profit HMOs Score Lower On Care (applesforhealth) For-profit HMOs scored lower than not-for-profit health plans on all 14 quality care indicators in a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 07-23-99. Papers Alternative Therapies Evaluation (applesforhealth) The decision to use complementary and alternative treatments is an important one. The following are topics to consider before selecting an alternative therapy - the safety and effectiveness of he therapy or treatment, the expertise and qualifications of the healthcare practitioner, and the quality of the service delivery. These topics should be considered when selecting any practitioner or therapy. 11-05-99. Dentists Search (HealthGrades.com) Search for dentists by location and specialty. Provides a glossary of specialties. Provides priority listings for dentists who have provided descriptions of their services. 7-00 Doctors Admit They Lie To Get Patients HMO Care (applesforhealth) More than a third of all doctors admit they lie to get care they believe patients need but that they feel HMOs will not pay for, researchers report Tuesday. 04-21-00. Fees - Benchmark Medical Fees (INTELLIMED - MyHealthScore.com) Provides a "comprehensive listing of Physician, Dental, Inpatient, and Outpatient procedures, with corresponding fees already reduced to a competitive rate." Actually, the descriptions of physician procedures were removed by INTELLIMED because, they state, the American Medical Association threatened to sue them if they made the comparison information available for free. INTELLIMED charges that the AMA has demanded a fee for each person who views their descriptions of physician procedures. Without accurate descriptions, consumer comparisons cannot be made. 7-00 Getting Reliable Health Information Online (applesforhealth) As you well know, not everything on the Web is reliable information, especially health-related sites. When you surf, keep this reliability checklist in mind. 02-25-00. Health Care Providers (HealthGrades.com) Provides ratings based on government, accreditation, and other information available to the public. Also conducts consumer satisfaction surveys. Includes ratings and a search engine for finding hospitals, physicians, health plans, HMO's, nursing homes, home health care, hospices, fertility clinics, assisted living facilities, chiropractors, mammography facilities, dentists, acupuncturists, naturopathic physicians, birth centers, and cancer centers. 7-00 Holistic Medicine (applesforhealth) Holistic Medicine is defined by the Canadian Holistic Medical Association. Also defines or describes the fields of alternative and complementary medicine. 01-21-00. Hospitals (HealthGrades.com) Search for hospitals by state and procedure or diagnosis. Provides ratings of hospitals based on data from Medicare files (MEDPAR), licensed from the Health Care Financing Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and files for 14 individual states that release all payer data. 7-00 Medical Terms Related to Managed Health Care (Pohly) Provides a glossary of medical terms related to managed health care. Nursing Homes (HealthGrades.com) Search for nursing homes by state and distance from an area code. Provides ratings of nursing homes based on data from the Health Care Financing Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Accreditation status is obtained from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. 7-00 Physicians (HealthGrades.com) Search for physicians by location and specialty. Provides a glossary of specialties. Also allows searches by the physician's name. 7-00

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