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Sub-Topics Hospital Errors Hospital-Acquired Infections Also Try Health Care or Healthcare Medicare 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. 9-05 Dentists (American Dental Association) Provides links to dentists by state, city, and specialty. If you are looking for a dentist and do not have a name, leave the first and last name blank in the form. 11-03 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. 1-04 Find Support Groups (SupportPath.com) support-group.com offers Bulletin Boards, National Organizations, Support Group Listings, Internet Resources, and More. 1-04 HMO's (Doctorline) Provides links to HMO's by state and city. Hospitals (GTE - BigBook) Provides links to hospitals by state, city, and specialty. 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. 08-07 Physician Search (American Medical Association) News -07-13-07 Best Hospitals for 2007 (US News) "Hospitals are ranked by specialty and not by specific procedures because the goal is to identify facilities that excel at treating a variety of demanding illnesses and procedures within a specialty, not just a few." "Out of 5,462 hospitals evaluated, only 173 met that standard in one or more specialties. Most that did are referral centers, places accustomed to seeing the toughest patients and conducting bench-to-bedside research that advances the state of the art." 07-07 -07-18-07 Reading Hospital Bills (US News) "Ninety percent of hospital bills have errors of some kind, estimates Mary Jane Stull, president of the Patient's Advocate, a South Bend, Ind., firm paid by befuddled patients to intercede on their behalf. 'But it's not always intentional,' she says. "You find just as many mistakes for things they've forgotten to charge you for as you find overcharges.' " 07-07 -Best Health Plans (USNews.com) "This year's rankings of commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid HMOs and POS plans show useful information about most of America's larger plans as well as the majority of the nation's smaller ones." 06-07 -Best Hospitals (USNews.com) "Of the 176 medical centers that appear in this year's edition of America's Best Hospitals, find out which ones earned Honor Roll status, a mark of particular distinction." 06-07 -Best and Worst Hospitals for Heart Attack Survival (USA Today) "These hospitals made the government's roster of the best and worst in America, as measured by patients' heart-attack and heart-failure death rates in 2005 and 2006." 06-07 Papers 10 Ways to Combat Hospital Overcharges (MSN) "Profit-hungry hospitals are overcharging consumers an estimated $10 billion a year. Some deliberately work to keep bills indecipherable. Here's how to fight back." 11-05 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. 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 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. 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. 1-04 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. 1-04 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 Tips on Being a Smart Patient (ABC News) "Many U.S. companies are outsourcing customer service, tech and other jobs to India, where they've discovered an educated, cheap — and with 1.1 billion people, huge — work force." 03-06

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