Health IT Buzz: The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology official blog.

 

MSDN Health Blog: Bill Crounse MD, Microsoft's health senior editor, posts his thoughts, reflections, and commentary on healthcare IT.

 

Healthcare IT Consultant Blog: Information, news, videos, and specialty topics for the healthcare IT professional.

 

Informatic Professor: Dr. William Hersh, professor and chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University, blogs on biomedical and health informatics.

 

Meaningful Healthcare IT News with Neil Versel: Blog discussing current news and topics related to Healthcare IT.

 

The Healthcare Blog: A free-wheeling discussion of the latest healthcare developments.

 

Healthcare Economist: Jason Shafrin, PhD, discusses issues related to healthcare policy and economics, the health insurance market, and Medicare.  Although he tries to remain impartial, he is extremely biased when it comes to sports-- Brewers, Bucks, and Packers fans welcome!

 

The Clinical Informatics Wiki: A wiki page devoted to clinical informatics topics.

 

Chilmark Research: A healthcare analyst firm performing market research and analysis on health IT shares their perspective on IT trends in healthcare.

 

Emory Health Now Blog: Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center news and information.

 

 

 

AMIA: The American Medical Informatics Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and healthcare administration.

 

DCHI: The Duke Center for Health Informatics is a multidisciplinary training and research organization at Duke.  Areas of informatics-related research include Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management, Clinical Research Informatics , Computerized Patient Safety Systems, Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Geospatial Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Imaging Informatics, Patient Centered Care, Population Health, and Secondary Data Use to Improve Care and Care Outcomes.  Learn more about Research Areas and Education Programs.

 

Meaningful Use: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services listing for Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs and other useful information.  

 

HDWA: The Healthcare Data Warehousing Association is a forum for healthcare organizations planning or engaging in data warehousing projects to share ideas and information.

 

The Leapfrog Group: An organization that encourages provider quality improvement and consumer involvement to better healthcare outcomes.  Additional initiatives now include public reporting of healthcare quality and outcomes (hospital ratings) to influence consumers' choices.

 

 

IOM: The Institute of Medicine is a non-profit organization independent of the government that aims to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.

 

AHRQ: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the health services research arm of the US Department of Health and Human Services that works to enhance the mission of its partner agency, the National Institutes of Health.

 

NPSF: The National Patient Safety Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports many programs and research related to improving the safety of care provided to patients.

 

IHI: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a not-for-profit organization that focuses on identifying and testing new models of healthcare in partnership with both patients and healthcare providers.

 

NDNQI: The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators collects amd evaluates unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from hospitals. 

 

 

 

Junk Charts: A collection of analytics focused blogs.

 

Numbers Rule Your World: One of the many Junk Chart blogs; Kaiser Fung, a professional statistician, and a host of other experts comment on analytics and technology.

 

Stats with Cats: A very accessible (and humorous) blog about a variety of statistical and analytical issues.

 

JMP Blog: Brought to you by SAS, a blog on all things related to data visualization, visual Six Sigma, design of experiments, and other statistical topics.

 

Edward Tufte: Edward Tufte is a statistician and professor of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale .  This site is a great introduction to his publications and educational materials in the areas of statistical graphics and information display.

 

Significance on Facebook: Significance is the quarterly magazine and website of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Society.  Their facebook page posts helpful links to articles and other resources on the practical uses of statistics.

 

Juice Analytics: Juice Analytics designs and builds information-rich applications to connect people with data, along the way they share what they've learned.

 

Data Miners Blog: A blog that hosts discussions for those interested in or involved with data mining.

 

Neoformix: Jeff Clark does some fantastic data visualization work through web data mining of pop culture and current events.

 

Freakonomics: From the bestselling authors of the book by the same, prepare yourself for a journey into the hidden side of anything and everything.

 

Data Doghouse: A blog concerning topics related to business inteligence and data warehousing.