Accounting Software World has assembled an index of products and links for the Health Care Industry

Practice Management Software

• Capterra Medical Software Directory
• CTS Medical Guides
• R2ISC Associates Directory
• SoftScout Directory
• Achieve matrix
• Acrendo AIMed
• ADL Data Systems
• AdvancedMD by ADP
• Allscripts (A4 Healthcare, Misys)
• Altapoint Practice Management
• American Health Care Software
• American HealthTech
• American Medical Software
• Answers on Demand
• CompuGroup Medical
• e-MDs
• FoxMed
• GE Healthcare IT (IDX, Centricity was Millbrook)
• Healthtec
• Intergy by Vitera (formerly Emdeon Practice Services by Sage)
• JMJ Encounter Pro
• Keane Care Software Solutions
• Lytec Practice Management Software
• McKesson (Horizon, PracticePoint)
• MDS Medical
• Medical Manager by Vitera (formerly by Sage)
• Medical Software Associates
• Meditech
• MicroMD
• Microwize
• Monette ULTRACare
• NDCMedisoft
• NextGen Healthcare
• Nightingale
• Nuesoft
• Pulse Systems
• Ulrich Medical Concepts

Practice Management Issues

• Clinical Quality Improvement
• http://www.icsi.org/
• CPT Changes
• Electronic Medical Records Directory
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Hewlett-Packard Healthcare site
• JAMA
• Mobile Healthcare Forum
• RBRVS: Resource-Based Relative Value Scale
• Privacy
• Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites California Healthcare Foundation
• List of how other states handle privacy: Health Privacy Project
• Medical Records Privacy
• Privacy and Medical Databases
• How Private?
• CPT Page on Privacy
• Hawaii Medical Privacy Task Force
• Citizen's Council on Healthcare

HIPAA Information

• http://cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa1/default.asp
• Health and Human Services Overview
• Compliance Plan
• Consumer Bill of Rights
• Medicare HIPAA Documents
• HIPAA Checklist

Provider Information

• Ratings of Physicians, Hospitals, Nursing Homes
• Angie's List
• Healthgrades
• MDJunction

Recent Developments

• Allen Institute for Brain Science Brain Atlas
• Scripps Research Institute Collaborative Molecular Environment
• GPS to assist the blind Trekker by HumanWare or StreetTalk by Freedom Scientific or Sendero GPS
• ABIOMED Abiocor artificial heart approved for implants
• Haptics based virtual surgery at Rensselaer
• CyberKnife for Robotic radiosurgery by Accuray
• OSU Medical Center robots and financial payback
• Script filling robots
• BrainGate™ Neural Interface System
• Human Brain Proteome Project
• Telescoping Phantom Mirror treatment Dr. Herta Flor
• Also at Berkley
• Sleep - brain waves in forming memory and tau protein with Alzheimer's
• Artificial Intraocular lens (IOL) - Acrysof by Alcon
• DNA test to prescribe test patients for ability to metabolize drugs - Roche Amplichip Cytochrome 450 Genotyping
• Prostate Cancer Calculator
• Accu-SPINA IDD Therapy
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Hyper-Med Cincinnati Hyperbarics Cochrane Review
• Hamilton Thorne Laser assisted embryo hatching
• Artficial disc - Charite
• Implantable artificial heart - Syncardia Temporary CardioWest
• Artificial rib - Synthes Spine Co.
• RFID trial Jacobi Medical Center in New York
• RFID under the skin chip VeriChip
• RFID indoor positioning Radianse Inc., to track equipment

Technical Assistance for Patients

• FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
• FDA Recently Approved Devices
• IEEE Healthcare Technologies
• Medical Device Link index
• Diabetic Watch - GlucoWatch Biographer
• Cygnus
• Insulin Pump and more
• Children Pumps
• Support Group for pumpers
• GE Healthcare technology helping to detect Alzheimer’s
• Pain management with PCA infusers
• Paramedic in a Box – AED
• SaraMed

Bionics

• General Links
• Bionic Ear-Clarion
• Cochlear Implants
• Limited vision for the Blind-Dobelle Eye by Dobelle
• vOIce Learning Edition seeing-with-sound
• Phakic Intraocular lenses
• Eye
• Hand
• Human LoJack – Digital Angel
• Texas Heart Institute

Diagnostics and Provider Assistance

• Diagnostic Camera Pill-Diagnostic Imaging System with RAPID (Reporting and Processing of Images and Data) Pillcam - Given Imaging
• Heads up MRI, CAT, patient data Microvision
• Imagechecker for mammography
• Intel Fluid Molecular Analyzer - 3-D hydrodynamic focusing
• Squishless Mammography-Computed Tomography Laser Mammography (CTLM) Imaging Diagnostic Systems
• OxiFirst Fetal Oxygen Saturation Monitoring System
• www.healthymotherandbaby.com
• Robotic arms for surgery Intuitive Surgical
• Wearable displays – Retinal Scanning Display

Mobile and PDAs in Medical Applications

• Collectivemed
• Doctor's Gadgets
• ePocrates
• Medical Wizards Handheld Med
• MedPDA
• Medical Pocket PC
• Medical Software for PDAs
• pdaMD
• Skyscape
• Beiks Medical Dictionaries
• infoSync
• Harvard Medical School
• LifeLine Mobile
• Palowireless
• Patientkeeper
• Univ of Wisconsin Mobile Initiative

Pharmaceutical

• Pocket PC or Palm drug reference
• Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide
• Robodruggists – dispenses drugs to patients
• Robot-Rx McKessonHBOC
• Wireless e-mail prescriptions to pharmacies

Healthcare Index

• eWeek
• Healthopedia
• MayoClinic
• MRI Healthcare technology
• WebMD

Personal Interest Links

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFIDS CDC
• Dystonia Foundation
• Fibromyalgia NFA Books Katrina Berne
• Restless Leg Syndrome RLS
• Theophylline
• QT syndrome

Personal Genetics, Genetic Sequencing

HBOT Links

• Good layman's book on hyperbaric oxygen
• Grandfather of off label HBOT therapy in the US
• Traveling HBO chamber
• OFFICIAL HBOT organization for official treatments. They usually charge about $1,000 per treatment.