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Computing/Infomatics

American Medical Informatics Association: Homepage of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), designed to help answer questions about the AMIA, their services, and their activities. . USA
Bio-Informatics Research Group: Homepage of the Bio-Informatics Research Group, based in the Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham. Information avaliable includes tools and software for computer based learning, guidelines for multimedia courseware developers, a multimedia encyclopedia of mammalian biology, biodiversity courseware and details of the Biodiversity 2000 publishing initiative. . UK
Bristol Biomedical Image Archive.: An archive of approximately 20,000 images, designed as an aid for teaching medical, veterinary and dental science. Developed for lecturers who require ready access to re-usable images, or who are currently creating computer-based learning materials for use in teaching, the archive has been is a shared resource, with images donated by members of medical, veterinary and dental institutions worldwide. Images may be downloaded and saved for use as a teaching material, but to access the actual images registration is required. (note - the Image archive is also available on videodisc.) . UK
British Medical Informatics Society.: Pages providing information on the activities,aims,and membership of the BMIS, with good general information on medical informatics.There are also several links to other similar sites. . UK
Centre for Health Informatics - University of Wales: The CHI is a part of the Institute for Information Management within the Department of Information and Library Studies at the University of Wales. . UK
computers-and-psychology: A discussion list designed to address all psychological aspects of computers (for example, human-computer interaction or computers and learning). Topics covered include research, literature, conferences, comment and queries. . UK
Connection to JANET by NHS Organisations: A summary of the guidelines pertaining to the connection to the JANET network by National Health Service organisations. . UK
Department of Medical Informatics - Columbia: Resources and Demonstrations, Faculty and Staff, New York Center for Advanced Technology. . USA
European Federation for Medical Informatics: A nonprofit organisation concerned with the theory and practice of Information Science and Technology within Health and Health Science in a European context. . UK
Georgia Tech - Medical Informatics Research Group: Faculty of Medical Informatics Homepage, with information on their current research projects which focus on ways to model, represent, visualize, and interpret the information associated with complex structures and dynamic processes. . USA
Health informatics; Oregon Health Sciences: The Biomedical Information Communication Center at Oregon Health Sciences University is devoted to research and education in the field of medical (or health) informatics. . USA
IMDM: The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine (IMDM) homepage. Information is avaliable on each of their three departments, Mathematics in Medicine, Computer Science in Medicine and The Computer Centre. . GERMANY
Institute for Health Informatics: Centre for Health Informatics based in Aberystwyth, Wales. Features Tele-Education and Medicine (TEAM) Project, Projects, Technologies and Java, Distance Learning Certificate in Health Informatics. . UK
lis-medical: This is a discussion list created for members of the UK medical/ health care library community and other interested information workers . A closed list is also available, open to members of the University Medical School Librarians' Group. .
Medical Informatics Group - University of Manchester: MIG is an interdisciplinary group based in the Computer Science department of the University of Manchester, with teaching links to the Medical School within the Graduate School of Biological Sciences. The group is concerned with all aspects of the design and implementation of healthcare information systems, especially those intended for use primarily as a clinical tool. . UK
Medical informatics in developing countries: A site maintained by the Primary Care Informatics group. . UK
Medical Informatics; University of Florida: Includes demonstrations such as: Histology Self Evaluation Demo, Musculoskeletal Pathology Demo, Radiologic Anatomy Demo, Human Anatomy Demo. . USA
medical-it: A discussion list for discussion on the use of IT in the teaching of medical students, with particular emphasis on undergraduate medical students in the UK. Topics include Computer Assisted Learning, virtual reality, Clinical Skills and patient simulation, medical images and relevant advances in IT technology. . UK
MedInfoPoli - Medical Informatics WWW server: MedInfoPoli contains searchable Medical Informatics information organised into four areas. The Software Area which contains public domain software downloadable from its remote FTP server. The Document Area contains articles, thesis, standards, reports (in Postscript and/or ASCII format). The Announce area contains announcements of Conferences, Meetings, Calls for Papers and presentations of new information servers. The Standard area contains information about standards. . USA
Monash Uni. - Medical Informatics: Homepage of The Monash University Unit of Medical Informatics. Information avaliable on staff, research projects, publications and some software. .
Sowerby Unit for Primary Care Informatics: The Sowerby Unit is a research unit which covers all areas of medical informatics for the specialty of Primary Health Care. The unit was founded in January 1993 and is academically based in the Department of Primary Health Care at Newcastle University. . UK
Telemedicine Research Center: The Telemedicine Information Exchange (the TIE) is a comprehensive, on-line source of information about telemedicine, the use of electronic signals to transfer medical information from one site to another. . USA
The Millipore On-line Catalog: Based at Johns Hopkins University, The Millipore On-line Catalog was built as a Bioinformatics experiment. From this site you can view either the original experimental catalog or Millipore's current on-line catalog which consists of three individually searchable sections, The Analytical Products Catalog, The Pharmaceutical Catalog and The Microelectronics Catalog. . USA

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