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Healthcare Administration

About Web Resources

Here you will find links to an array of resources available on the web.  Most are free, although some require registration and/or offer additional resources for a price. 

I encourage you to provide feedback or share web sites that you have discovered and found useful.

Health Care Reform Law

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
This is the Senate's health care reform bill, passed on December 24, 2009 by a party-line vote of 60-39. It would expand health care coverage to 31 million currently uninsured Americans through a combination of cost controls, subsidies and mandates.

 

Health care management Websites

Model:

What is Socialized Medicine?: A taxonomy of health care systems
Uwe Reinhardt, professor at Princeton University, explains difference betwee socialized medicine and social health insurance


Trends:

 America's Health Rankings
Analysis of national health by state

Kaiser Foundation employer Health Benefits annual survey

Kaiser Foundation Trends in health care costs and spending

Kaiser Foundation Trends and indicators in the changing health care marketplace

 

Quality: 

National Committee for Quality Assurance
Private, nonprofit NCQA studies reports on health care quality. 

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
NHQRP uses quality measures to report on health care.

 

Statistics:

Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Alpha allows you to either calculate or presents statistics on many topics, including health care

NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
A subdivision of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the NCHS adminsters surveys to monitor health status and determine trends in health care delivery 

 WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
Interactive data base that provides World Health Organization statistics, using more than 100 indicators.

Health Statistics resources compiled by Montclair State University

Health & Med Portal

Internet public library Health & Medical Sciences. A directory of over 600 sites (you can also narrow by more specific topic).

Policy and Reform

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

"Since 1975, CBO has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. Each year, the agency’s economists and budget analysts produce dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates for proposed legislation. CBO is strictly nonpartisan; conducts objective, impartial analysis; and hires its employees solely on the basis of professional competence without regard to political affiliation. CBO does not make policy recommendations, and each report and cost estimate summarizes the methodology underlying the analysis." [from CBO website]

 

National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL)
Access to reports and other resources related to health policy topics.

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The foundation's mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The website provides access to news, data, articles, research reports, white papers, and more.

 

PDQ-Evidence 

PDQ (“pretty darn quick”)-Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for decisions about health systems. It includes systematic reviewsbroad syntheses of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.

 

Epistemonikos

Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.