Health Initiatives

Links provided below include a diverse group of public and private organizations supporting clinicians specializing in informatics to strengthen the health care industry and health professions. These organizations have various interests whose main purpose is to direct public attention on their particular focus. Their overriding goal is to improve health care access, quality, and affordability.

CCHIT (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology)
CFH (Connecting for Health - Markle Foundation)
CHT (Center For Health Transformation)
CITL (Center for Information Technology Leadership)
Creative Healthcare USA
eHI (Electronic Health Initiative)
Health Data Management: The Health Care IT Authority
Health Informatics World Wide
Health Literacy Studies (Harvard School of Public Health)
Healthy People 2010
HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society)
iHealth Beat/California Healthcare Foundation
LINCS (Literacy Information and Communication System)
Markle Foundation
Medem Network: Connecting Physicians & Patients Online
NAHIT (National Alliance for Health Information Technology)
NCSALL (National Center for the Study of Adult Learning & Literacy)
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
WHO (World Health Organization)