ENTREZ, THE LIFE SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINE
NCBI.  The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases; Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed®, PMC, Books, OMIM™, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. 
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi?itool=toolbar 

MEDLINE (OVID)
Three separate components of Medline available through OVID interface: Medline 1966 - present (offers author/journal/keyword/subject, or MESH, searching), Oldmedline 1950 - 1965 (offers same but subject searching), and In-Process around 2 recent months (offers same but subject searching).  
URL: http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/eres/countact.cfm?resourceid=1301 

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES: A RESEARCH RESOURCES DIRECTORY
DHHS publication ; no. (NIH) 87-1430. 7th revised ed. prepared by Research Resources Information Center. Directory of research resources in biomedical computing. 
REF R856.4 .A4 B5 1987. 

HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
van Bemmel, JH Musen, MA, editors ; Helder, JC managing editor..  Covers the entire field of medical informatics. 
REF R858 .H32 1997. 

HEALTHCARE VIDEODISC DIRECTORY
Scott, AS, ed..  Lists software designed to educate healthcare professionals, including medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy, so forth. All of the titles in this directory are available on videodisc. 
Ref R 858 .A1 M424 1997. 

AMERICAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (AHIMA)
URL: http://www.AHIMA.org/ 

AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION (AMIA)
4915 St.Elmo Ave., Ste. 401. Bethesda, MD 20814. Tel. (301) 657-1291 Offers miscellaneous information including abstracts of articles from JAMIA, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Full text of Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients can be found under AMIA Positions Papers. 
URL: http://www.amia.org/ 

AMERICAN PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTER MEDICINE (APACM)
10 N. Main St. Pittsford, NY 14534. Tel. (716) 586-8159 

AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION
1010 Vermont Ave., K.W., Suite 301, Washington D.C. 20005, Tel.: (202) 628-4700 
URL: http://www.atmeda.org/ 

ASSOCIATION OF TELEMEDICINE SERVICE PROVIDERS (ATSP)
URL: http://www.atsp.org/ 

BRITISH MEDICAL INFORMATICS SOCIETY
URL: http://www.bmis.org/ 

COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL INFORMATICS SOCIETIES (CEPIS)
Unites 150,000 informatics professional members of 29 societies in 24 countries of Europe. 
URL: http://www.cepis.org/ 

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
URL: http://www.imia.org/ 

THE SOCIETY FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN RADIOLOGY (SCAR)
Devoted to development and dissemination of information on the use of computer technology as a part of medical imaging practice, research, and education. Publications: Journal of Digital Imaging, SCAR News. 10105 Cottesmore Court. Great Falls, Virginia 22066-3540. Voice: 703-757-0054 
URL: http://www.scar.rad.washington.edu/SCAR/ 

INTERNET TOOLKIT FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Videorecording 2 videocassettes 60 min. 
MEDIA RESERVE R859.7.D36 I57 1998. 

BIOTOOLKIT
Annotates hundreds state-of-the-art molecular biology tools for data retrieval, analysis, and structural visualization, providing annotated links to web tools for the study of nucleic acid, genome, and protein structure. 
URL: http://www.biosupplynet.com/cfdocs/btk/btk.cfm 

CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CIT) AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUES OF HEALTH (NIH)
Under "Science Support" look for such subdivisions as Collaborative Research for ongoing research in biomedical computing at NIH; Scientific Tools and Resources; Other Related NIH Resources. 
URL: http://www.cit.nih.gov/home.asp 

CUMC BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
Describes training opportunities in Biomedical Informatics at CU, research, projects, etc. 
URL: http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/ 

ENTREZ, THE LIFE SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINE
NCBI.  The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases; Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed®, PMC, Books, OMIM™, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. 
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi?itool=toolbar 

HARDIN META DIRECTORY MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(University of Iowa). List of links to important medical informatics sites, which in turn serve as megadirectories to the Internet medical informatics resources. 
URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/inform.html 

HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIRECTORY
Lists vendors by category with brief description of the products for each company. 
URL: http://www.health-infosys-dir.com/ 

MEDICAL COMPUTING TODAY (MCTODAY)
Computing and related technologies site created for physicians and other health care professionals. Offers peer reviewed original articles written on the subjects of evaluation of medical online databases, online medical tools, trends in medical informatics, etc.; annotated references to Web resources, and exchanges on medical computing by and among health care professionals. 
URL: http://www.medicalcomputingtoday.com/ 

MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(University of Florida.) Offers mixture of full text materials and links on medical informatics: links to outside resources, bibliography, tutorials. 
URL: http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/ 

THE MCGILL MEDICAL INFORMATICS STUDENT PROJECTS
(McGill University, Canada). Growing collection of multimedia projects in medical teaching/curriculum support. Includes such projects as Virtual Stetoscope, 3D Anatomy, EKG Tutorial, Urology, Immunology, etc.  
URL: http://sprojects.mmip.mcgill.ca/ 

UCDHS APPLIED MEDICAL INFORMATICS GROUP
(UC Davis School of Medicine). Offers full-text publications on medical informatics available to print or download; presents training programs in Medical Informatics, organizations, telemedicine links, ICD-9-CM codes, etc. 
URL: http://informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ 

VETERINARY INFORMATICS
(Washington University). Offers list of links to the Internet resources in two lengthy sections: Veterinary Resources and General Medical Informatics Resources. 
URL: http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm