Provides information about compliance with IEC 60601-1, the international product safety standard for electrical medical equipment, as well as the standard's national variants. Includes explanations and interpretations of requirements, links to other sites, and articles on related subjects.

Povides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.

Provides multidisciplinary leadership and programs that enhance the ability of the professions, health care institutions, and industry to understand, develop, manage, and use medical instrumentation and related technologies safely and effectively.

Translates to the public the latest evidence-based research on health, health care, prevention and chronic disease management, with an emphasis on how social, behavioral and economic factors affect illness and well-being.

Collaborative Center between Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Features resources on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and scholars.

Designs clinical information systems and financial applications to improve health care delivery. Products and services integrate information technology and health care issues, such as patient safety, e-health, and operational performance, for use by physicians, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and patients.

Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides standards and guidelines for laboratories as well as training.

Portal site for health policy information on the Web.

Provides publications, information, and consulting services internationally for healthcare technology assessment and cost effectiveness, risk and environmental management, and patient safety; classification guides, evaluation services, clinical alerts, data bases, and links to related sites.

Provides health professionals with the tools to make informed decisions about medicines and other healthcare interventions by providing comparative analysis of costs and consequences; updated monthly.

Promotes, facilitates and analyzes health policy research. Includes publications, staff and press releases.

Provides reports on health policy reforms from 15 industrialized countries to enhance global discussions on policy making; resources include current health policy ideas, approaches, model projects, and legislation.

Provides consulting assistance for health care management and public health; services include management and administrative support, needs assessment, literature reviews, research analysis, and grant writing assistance.

International network of scholars, health workers and activists with the aim of promoting the scientific analysis of public health issues.

Promotes oncology research, developing standards for quality patient care, and facilitating oncology health policy at state, national and international levels. Contains information on research programs, policy statements, and publications.

View live webcasts, webcast archives, conference archives and training resources from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

Describes how decisions resulting in revocation of driver's licenses are based on diagnosis of visual deficiency rather than ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. Provides advice and links to related web sites.

Dedicated to improving health and health care by promoting the science of outcomes measurement, and the development, evaluation and distribution of standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care. Includes online publications.

Provides resources, services, and links for public health professionals concerned with issues of public health policy and legislation.

Helps employers utilize health information technology, measure and publish quality and price information, and create positive incentives for high-quality, efficient care.

Provides consulting services in assessing, measuring, auditing stress and pressure at work; resources focus on person-centred development and training remedies.

Provides information on district health services in Tanzania; resources include policy, regulation, experiences, and innovations.

Provides information about the quality of national managed care plans to enable consumers to evaluate health plan performance. Includes links to accreditation and certification programs, compliance audits, and health plan report cards.

Provides information on benefits of stem cell research and how to support public funding for stem cell research.