Health Informatics: eHealth

"Telemedicine - the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by health care professionals using information and communications technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of health care providers, all in the interest of advancing the health of individuals and their communities
[WHO/1997]". Courtesy of International Communication Union.

• TELESYNERGY® - a HIPAA-compliant video collaborative conferencing system on cancer research and treatment.
• Teledoc - U. S. board-certified doctors telehealth network that provide medical service via phone or online video consults 24/7/365.
  
• Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Summary -  Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 24. AHRQ Publication Number 01-E011, February 2001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
  
• American Telemedicine Association - resources on telemedicine, telemedical knowledge, practice, and advanced remote medical technologies.
  
• International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth - resource on  telemedicine and e-health development, promotion, and adoprtion in health care.
• E-Prescribing Standards - recommendation report on e-prescribing standards.
  
• eMeasures - resources on electronic quality measures.
  

• National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) - resources on secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange in health care. 
• American Health Information Community - an entity focused on advice and recommendations on adoption of health information technology to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• eHealth Initiative (eHI) - focused on research, education, and advocacy of effective application of data, analytics, IT infrastructure, and data exchange in healtcare.
  
• eHealth Connection (Rockefeller Foundation) - resources on application of information and communication technology in healthcare.
  

Collaborative projects

• Wiki Surgery

Electronic Personal Health Records

• MyHealthVet
• HealthVault

Homebased e-health applications

• TeleHomeCare Project
• Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel).
• The Telematic Mangement of Insulin-Dependent Mellitus (T-IDDM)
• Diabetes Care Management Support System (DCMSS)
• Astma Telemonitoring (HAT) system

Health Social Network Sites

• PatientsLikeMe
• Everyday Health
• Group Loop

• U.S. Health and Human Services
• Health Information Technology (HIT.gov)
• Center for Health Informatics and Policy (CHiP)
• Health and Public Welfare. Federal Register
• Health Program, Bipartisan Policy Center
• Institute of Medicine (IOM)