Healthcare 2.0 Directory

State eHealth Sites

http://www.azamie.gov/PACeHR/ Arizona's Purchasing & Assistance Collaborative for Electronic Health Records

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/ehealth/ Tennessee Office of e-Health Initiatives

http://www.health.state.mn.us/e-health/ Minnesota e-Health Initiative

http://ehealth.ky.gov/index.html Kentucky eHealth site

Health Information Exchange Organizations

http://www.ihie.com Indiana Health Information Exchange (a non-profit formed in 2004) provides an interoperable, standards-based health information infrastructure that plugs the gap to directly address the lack of access and coordination of clinical information that can result in errors, misdiagnoses, patient safety issues, cost inefficiencies and other wastefulness.

http://slhie.org/ State Health Information Exchange Leadership Forum

http://www.mhin.net/ Michiana Health Information Network

http://www.azhec.org Arizona Health-e Connection

http://www.cachie.org/ Colorado Associated Community Health Information Exchange

http://www.whie.org/ Wisconsin Health Information Exchange

http://www.semhie.org/ Southeast Michigan Health Information Exchange

Associations and Foundations

http://www.amia.org/ American Medical Informatics Association

http://www.eurorec.org/ The EUROREC Institute (EuroRec) is an independent not-for-profit organisation, promoting in Europe the use of high quality Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs). One of its main missions is to support, as the European certification body, EHRs quality labeling and defining functional and other criteria.

http://www.who.int/kms/en/ World Health Organization knowledge management initiative

http://www.himss.org/ Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of IT and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/ The eHealth Institute is a private, charitable nonprofit organization that seeks to harness the power of emerging technologies, especially the Internet, to improve health for all.

http://www.nationalehealth.org/ National eHealth Collaborative (formerly AHIC Successor, Inc.) is a public-private partnership driving the grassroots development of a secure, interoperable, nationwide health information system.

http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/ The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and IT.

http://www.hl7.org/ Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services.

http://www.h2anetwork.org H2A is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to advance consumer-centric health care by driving integration of technology and the consumer experience across a network of new and established technology companies and health care organization

http://www.ixcenter.org The Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter) is an independent not-for-profit that aims to advance the practice and science of information therapy to improve health, consumer decision making and healthy behaviors.

http://www.aehra.org Alaska Electronic Health Record Alliance was formed to support the development of affordable, interoperable electronic health records for non-public sector healthcare providers in Alaska.

http://www.cteconline.org/ California Telemedicine & eHealth Center

http://www.ehealth.dsu.edu/ South Dakota eHealth Collaborative

http://www.paehi.org/ Pennslyvania eHealth Initiative

http://www.nyehealth.org/ New York eHealth Collaborative

http://www.maehc.org/ The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative - an initiative of the physician community to bring together the state's major health care stakeholders for the purpose of establishing an EHR system that would enhance the quality, efficiency and safety of care in MA.

EMR Companies (B2B)

http://www.sushoo.com EMR Integration company. Part of DoctorsPartner, LLC

http://www.emr-electronicmedicalrecords.com Custom EMR, drug interaction checker, appointment and backup automation developer

EMR companies (B2C)

http://www.crossoverhealth.com/ Crossover Health is a membership-based, personal health advisory service. Members pay a monthly fee to access different levels of service capabilities designed to help achieve optimal heath care value. Membership fees consists of an initial registration and ongoing monthly subscription to access all Crossover Services, including the Crossover Network.

http://www.sermo.com/ Physicians only online collaboration community

https://www.mymedlab.com/ Direct to consumer lab service, a way to be your own doctor to test yourself without having to share it with the doctor.

http://iamenabled.com/ Direct to patient EMR company based on Microsoft® HealthVault™ technology.

Healthcare IT companies

http://www.carol.com Consulting and software development company

http://www.americanwell.com/ Developers of Online Care Suite - communication platform for patients and care providers.

http://www.datadyne.org/ Consultancy (non profit) that creates software to easily collect data on public health. Used by epidemiologists to understand population scale health issues.

http://chilmarkresearch.com/ Chilmark Research is a healthcare industry analyst firm performing market research and analysis on healthcare IT adoption and use.

http://www.health2advisors.com/ Health 2.0 Advisors is the consulting and market intelligence arm of the Health 2.0 family. We are here to help clients of all sizes and industries to identify their highest-value Health 2.0-related opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and to use our leading expertise and insight in Health 2.0 to help them make better decisions.

http://www.kruresearch.com Krū Research is a global think tank focused on "empowered patients" - those who are increasingly marshalling digital technologies and communicating with peers to actively manage their health.

Blogs: General Information

http://www.emrandhipaa.com/ Covers general issues related to EMR, EHR, HIPAA and Healthcare IT

http://ahier.blogspot.com/ Brian Ahier cover very broad range of Healthcare IT, EMR, and public healthcare policy issues.

http://adambosworth.net/ Adam Bosworth (former VP of Product Management at Google Health) comments primarily on EMR and Healthcare IT from a technology-centric perspective

http://williamyasnoff.com/ William Yasnoff comments on EMR, HIPAA, Healthcare IT, and healthcare public policy.

http://healthnex.typepad.com/web_log/ IBM-sponsored blog on patient centric healthcare that highlights what IBM is doing in the areas of Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Clinical Transformation, Biobanking, etc.

http://www.thelaszloletter.com/ Short commentaries on general EMR topics. Author is an independent IT operations consultant for the life sciences industry

http://greggrouppublishing.com/category/healtharticles/ Blog covering use of social media in healthcare

http://e-patients.net/ Blog authored by a group of patients, experts, and academics. Contains information on how to use the internet to get information to empower the patients.

Blogs: Healthcare Politics

http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/ Blog provides commentary on healtcare policy with views and op-ed of numerous experts.

http://williamyasnoff.com/ William Yasnoff comments on EMR, HIPAA, Healthcare IT, and healthcare public policy.

http://ahier.blogspot.com/ Brian Ahier cover very broad range of Healthcare IT, EMR, and public healthcare policy issues.

http://www.codebluenow.org/vital-signs/second-opinion Kathleen O’Connor, health care industry analyst and journalist, writes thought-provoking calls to arms for those working to make a change in health care policies.

Blogs: Healthcare IT

http://histalk2.com HISTalk - healthcare IT news and opinion by an anonymous industry professional and guest posters.

http://www.healthcareguy.com/ Shahid N. Shah covers very broad range on healthcare IT and policy topics

http://medicalconnectivity.com/ Medical Connectivity aims to address issues related to making medicine more connected through technology.

http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/default.aspx Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse

http://www.futurehealthit.com/ Healthcare IT blog from British perspective

http://ehealth.johnwsharp.com/ John W. Sharp on eHealth and healthcare IT

http://www.healthpopuli.com/ Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (a health economist) looks at how health care and technology intersect.

Blogs: from patient prospective

http://www.healthrecordnews.com/ Author shares personal experiences with medical records and related technology.

http://patientdave.blogspot.com/ Cancer survivor shares his experiences with the healthcare system, opinions on the public policy and healthcare IT

http://blog.patientslikeme.com/ PatientsLikeMe is an online community for people with life-changing conditions. Patients embrace the open sharing of personal health data because they believe that information can change the course of their disease.

Healthcare News

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/ WSJ's Health blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/ NYT Heal and healtcare blog

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/ Reporting on technology's impact on healthcare (published by California HealthCare Foundation)

http://www.californiahealthline.org/ Daily digest of news, policy, and opinions on healthcare (published by California HealthCare Foundation)

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/ Healthcare Finance News covers revenue cycle management, reimbursement services, claims processing, denials management, payment processing, and consumer-directed healthcare

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/ Kaiser Health News covers health reform, Medicare, Medicaid, helth costs, and other topics (published by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)

http://www.gooznews.com/ Independent journalist Merrill Goozner covers healtthcare and healthcare IT

http://healthin30.com Health in 30® Radio Show is a half-hour program that brings listeners the latest health and medical news and information with leading medical experts.

http://news.avancehealth.com/ Healthcare Technology News reports on relevant events and examines their broader strategic context with a focus on healthcare technology, revenue cycle management, value, policy, economics and health care reform.

http://www.fierceemr.com/ FierceEMR gives hospital administrators, IT executives, and practice managers the must-know news and insights about modernizing patient information systems.

http://www.fiercehealthit.com/ FierceHealthIT weekly news for healthcare IT leaders

http://www.ehealthinternational.org/ The eHealth International Journal provides a peer-reviewed vehicle for timely publication of scientific research on the application of information technology in medicine, medical care delivery, and public health.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/ Healthcare IT News published in partnership with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

http://www.ehealthnews.eu/ European eHelth news portal

Events & Conferences

http://hitsymposium.com/ Healthcare IT Symposium, conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Communities

http://www.dailystrength.org/ Social network of support groups for different health conditions.

http://www.sermo.com/ Physicians only online collaboration community

http://www.vitals.com/ Doctor rating site.