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Nursing Evidence

Link: 
http://www.nursingevidence.org.nz/

Nursing Evidence is a free online service that will help nurses to quickly find key information on the web that is needed to ensure delivery of quality, evidence based care in all healthcare settings.

PubMed Health

Link: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/

PubMed Health specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care.

PubMed Health is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world's largest medical library. It has millions of books and journals about all aspects of medicine and health care on its shelves. Its electronic services deliver trillions of bytes of data to millions of users every day.

Digital Collections

Link: 
http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/welcome.jsp;jsessionid=36BC7F7E89F027DAA...

Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's free online archive of biomedical books and videos. All the content in Digital Collections is in the public domain and freely available worldwide. Digital Collections provides unique access to NLM's rich, historical resources.

Digital Collections uses a suite of open source and NLM-created software. For more information on the development and technical description of Digital Collections, see the NLM Digital Repository Project information page.
 

40 Useful Tutorial Sites for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

Link: 
http://bsntomsn.org/2011/40-useful-tutorial-sites-for-nurses-and-healthcare-prof...

When you decide to be a nurse, chances are that you made the decision in order to help people. You can be a great help to people when you better understand how to treat them. The good news is that there are a number of tutorial sites available so that you can learn about being a better health care professional.

12 Hot Mobile Medical Apps

Link: 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/healthcare/mobile-wireless/2294025...

Mobile medicine is everywhere. There's the iPhone app that lets you cut away images of muscle layers to see what lies beneath, an e-health record system for the iPad, and a smartphone-based blood pressure monitor. Here are a dozen innovative ones.

Social Media Primer for Healthcare Professionals

Link: 
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749576

Social media sites have grown in popularity among millions of people around the world. For medical professionals, these sites present new avenues for interaction with family, friends, patients, colleagues, and organizations. This article will provide an introduction to social media and the various networking opportunities they offer. With many choices and designs, these platforms provide healthcare professionals with new ways to support their work. Additionally, advice on how to get started participating in social media will be offered, and the ethical and professional concerns that have been raised about using social media will be discussed.

Enabling E-Health - A Revolution for Informatics in Health Care

Link: 
http://publications.bcg.com/health_care_payers_providers_medical_devices_technol...

Health care costs are growing at an unsustainable rate throughout much of the world. In response, many governments are taking steps to prod the health care industry to aggressively expand its use of IT. The potential long-term benefits to all parties, measured in cost savings and improved medical outcomes, will be vast. But the near- to intermediate-term disruption to the industry will be significant, translating into both costs and opportunities for industry players and the entire health-care ecosystem.

TIGER: Preparing nurses and health professionals to use technology & informatics to improve patient care

Link: 
http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/default.aspx

TIGER:  Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform

TIGER is now moving forward to integrate a full set of recommendations on:

  • Developing a U.S. nursing workforce capable of using electronic health records to improve the delivery of healthcare
  • Engaging clinicians in the development of a Nationwide Health Information Technology infrastructure
  • Accelerating adoption of smart, standards-based, interoperable, patient-centered technology that will make healthcare delivery safer, more efficient, timely, accessible, and efficient in a new interdisciplinary approach

A Framework and Toolkit for Managing eHealth Change: People & Processes

Link: 
https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/flash/lang-en/change-management/docs/CHI_Change...

People and Processes reflects leading practices and lessons learned for managing change in eHealth projects from across Canada. Based on this experience, this guide and toolkit has been developed as:

  • a support for change management (CM) leaders and practitioners working within eHealth, particularly for jurisdictional level and large institutional projects and programs.
  • a useful resource for front line clinicians, managers and senior leaders with a project implementation / quality / risk focus.
  • an introductory resource for individuals with CM as part of their role but who may not yet have any formal education.

MyHealthAlberta

Link: 
https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Pages/default.aspx

Here at MyHealthAlberta, you will find all of that great information, and much more, but from a single, reliable source relevant to Albertans.

In this technical age, we often turn to the internet when we are shopping around for information, whether it’s for the purchase of an automobile, a holiday, or even the daily weather forecast. No matter what the search is for, it almost always turns up conflicting information.

The same is true when searching the internet for health information.

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