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eClinician

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - NYCDOHMH, Community Health Care Association of New York State - CHCANYS and Clinical Directors Network, Inc. - CDN, are working together on a new initiative called the eClinician Project. The eClinician Project will provide free, public health-friendly customized PDAs with clinical decision-support software to primary care clinicians working in NYC Community Health Centers. A critical element of the project will include onsite and online training through Webcast Library to train clinicians on how to use electronic clinical decision-support tools. In addition ongoing follow-up, new programs, e-health tools and health alerts will be available to clinicians from the NYC DOHMH Health Access Network (HAN).

ePrescribing Pilot Project

Building on the successful eClinician Primary Care Information Project, DOHMH is working with CDN to perform an ePrescribing Pilot Project. The ePrescribing Pilot Project explores the utility of using PDA and desktop computers to safely and securely prescribe pharmaceuticals. More...

Selected Resources on Evidence-Based Medicine
User's Guides Interactive
An Online tool to guide the appraisal and application of evidence into everyday practice.
Clinical Evidence
An "International source of the best available evidence for effective health care."
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™
NGC™ is a public resource for evidenced-based clinical pratice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).
The Cochrane Library Consists of regularly updated collection of evidence-based databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
RAND Corporation

Journals
ACP JournalClub
Evidence-based Medicine ONLINE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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