Bone Health

Excellent overview of digital imaging. From the IndiaOrth Help section

A new non-commercial discussion forum for physicians with EMR, Handhelds, clinical threads and more

Controversial article by Chuck Shotton who discuses role of Geeks versus Doctors in healthcare.

Improvement in Orthopaedic Metadata will make web pages easier to searh and locate. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.

CEN/TC251 is about standardization in the field of Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and to to achieve compatibility and interoperability between independent systems and to enable modularity. This includes requirements on health information structure to support clinical and administrative procedures, technical methods to support interoperable systems as well as requirements regarding safety, security and quality.

BMJ theme issue covering internet quality isues. 2002

Electronic medical records software designed specificly for Orthopaedics and related musculoskeletal specialties. Enables practices to increase reimbursement revenue through optimized e/m coding while assuring complete and accurate documentation for compliance purposes. Multiple workflows are supported, enabling physicians to choose how to document each case - point & click, voice recognition, internet-enabled forms, OCR, voice recognition, dictation and transcription. HL7 interface is available for linking to HL7-compliant practice management systems.

US National Center for Health Statistics produce the ICD 9, ICD 10 classification systems, the Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM & ICD-10-CM) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

International Medical Informatics Association

Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. This site enables you to search some historical orthopaedic pages on the internet that are not present

Internet Healthcare Coalition

BMJ 1998. If you have not yet heard of medical informatics then expect to do so repeatedly in the future. As medical knowledge continues to expand rapidly, as the demands for more efficient coordination of patient data become paramount, and as the pressures for improved practice and application of evidence based medicine increase, medical informatics will have increasing influence in our working lives as clinicians.