In addition to measures allowing health care access, portability and renewability, HIPAA also includes information about medical privacy and the security of information. On top of that, the section of the legislation that deals with Administration Simplification also addresses electronic health records. HIPAA covers a number of things that health administration officials would have an interest in. If you are interested in learning more about HIPAA, you can reference the following 50 blogs, which offer great resources:

General HIPAA Blogs

These are blogs that address HIPAA in a general manner. Includes news and other information about HIPAA and its application.

1. HIPAA Blog: Interesting news and information related to HIPAA and the health care industry in general.
2. HIPAA.com: Information on rules and news addressing HIPAA.
3. HIPAA Compliance Journal: A great resource for information on complying with HIPAA.
4. HIPAA, HITECH & HIT: Everything you need to know about these different laws.
5. HIPAA Update: Latest headlines related to HIPAA and electronic health records.
6. HIPAA News and Updates: HealthPort offers this blog sharing updates related to HIPAA.
7. EMR and HIPAA: Great blog that looks at HIPAA, as well as electronic medical records.
8. HIPAA on ZDNet: You can get some great updates and news headlines on HIPAA from ZDNet.
9. HIPAA on WebMD: Headlines, blog posts and more related to HIPAA.
10. HIPAA.org: A great resource for all things HIPAA.

Electronic Health Records and Health Care Technology

HIPAA was designed to help foster increased use of electronic health records (EHR). Sometimes these are also referred to as electronic medical records (EMR). These EHR/EMR blogs offer a look at different aspects of electronic data in health care, including HIPAA regulations.

11. EHR Bloggers: Learn more about electronic health records. Also, learn more about HIPAA and other health tech issues.
12. EHR Scope: More on health records, technology and information on HIPAA compliance in our technological world.
13. EMR Straight Talk Blog: Looks at different aspects of electronic medical records.
14. EHR Decisions: Learn more about electronic health records, and what needs to happen for them to be HIPAA compliant.
15. CanadianEMR: A look at electronic medical records from Canada.
16. EMR: Addresses issues related to EMR, including new topics, posts and information related to technology and HIPAA.
17. IT Everything: This blog from Modern Healthcare looks at EHR, security and even addresses HIPAA in some of its posts.
18. Healthcare IT News: Addresses all things tech in health care. Including HIPAA.
19. Health Data Management: A look at technology in health care, including EMR and HIPAA.
20. SearchHealthIT: Learn more about health care technology. Includes information on electronic medical records and HIPAA.
21. Health IT Buzz: HHS offers a blog about medical information technology. Includes information on EHR as well as on HIPAA.
22. Healthcare Informatics: A great health technology resource. Learn more about patients, EHR and HIPAA.

HIPAA Newsletters

Some blogs send out helpful email newsletters that can provide you with information about the latest HIPAA developments. If you are interested in having pertinent information delivered right to your inbox, consider the following newsletters.

23. Physicians EHR eHealth Report Newsletter Archives: You can get access to information about electronic health records, including HIPAA compliance.
24. HIPAA/HITECH Act Compliance Newsletter: Basic information to help you learn more about compliance with these acts.
25. HIPAA Weekly Advisor: Get this free e-newsletter each week.
26. HIPAA Flash: Quarterly newsletter that can offer you insight and information.
27. HIPAA Survival Guide: Learn about HIPAA and get the information you need to comply.
28. HIPAA Bulletin: A helpful look at information related to HIPAA. Get reports, as well as news.
29. HIPAA Training: Resources, newsletters and videos on HIPAA.
30. HIPAA Desktop: Get news delivered right to you. A great way to stay up to date on HIPAA.

Health Privacy and Information Security Blogs

If you are interested in the privacy aspect of HIPAA and the health care industry, you can get more information from a variety of blogs that make it a point to address privacy.

31. Privacy Professor: Learn more about HIPAA compliance, as well as other issues related to information security and privacy.
32. HCAAnet: You can read blogs on health care compliance, especially as it relates to privacy and policy.
33. Health Information Privacy: While not exactly a blog, this information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is a valuable resource about HIPAA and privacy.
34. Health Privacy: This news page from the Center for Democracy & Technology is a great resource on information, including HIPAA information.
35. Healthcare Information Security News: News about security and privacy in health care. Includes EHR and HIPAA.
36. Healthcare Security/Privacy: Learn more about privacy in health care, including discussion on HIPAA.
37. EMR on Security, Privacy and the Law: Great information tagged “EMR” on this privacy blog.
38. Healthcare Security on NetSPI Blog: Insights into healthcare security, HIPAA and EMR.
39. The PrivacyBlog: Not all about health privacy, but a helpful resource for those looking for information on privacy.

Health Policy and Law Blogs

Find out more about the legal ramifications of HIPAA, and explore a number of other interesting and helpful topics related to the intersection of health care and law.

40. HealthBlawg: All you need to know about health care law, including HIPAA rules and more.
41. Real Health Reform: A look at different aspects of health care, including law. Also looks at HIPAA in some posts.
42. Med Law Blog: Information on medical law, including information on HIPAA.
43. Health Care Law Blog: Addresses issues related to health law, as well as privacy and HIPAA.
44. Healthcare Law Blog: Legal issues you see in health care. Also looks at HIPAA and protection.
45. Health IT Law Blog: Combines healthcare IT with law. You can find HIPAA posts on this blog.
46. Home Care Law Blog: Interesting health law information for home care. Also helps with understanding HIPAA in such situations.
47. Health Law & Policy: Keep up with the latest developments in health policy, including HIPAA.
48. HealthLawProf Blog: One of the best places to find information on health care law. Also look for HIPAA information.
49. Health Law Attorney Blog: Get information on health law, changes, and learn more about HIPAA.
50. Health Law Blog: Information about compliance, HIPAA and more.

This list is categorized, and every link is listed in alphabetical order within those categories.

Organization Members Only

1. AAHAM Member List Serve: The American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management offers a variety of networking opportunities for members.
2. AAHSA Listservs: American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging listservs can help you connect with your peers, stay informed, get answers to questions and share what you know with colleagues.
3. ACHCA Peer2Peer Forums: The American College of Health Care Administrators offers this forum and other networking tools for members.
4. ACHE Message Boards: The American College of Healthcare Executives provides this board, among other networking tools for its members.
5. ACHI Member Benefits: The Association for Community Health Improvement delivers peer networking and practical tools in achieving community health goals.
6. ACMHA Message Board: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership provides a members-only message board.
7. AHA RPB Discussions: The American Hospital Association offers member discussions and other interactive opportunities for health care professionals.
8. AHIMA Communities of Practice: CoP is an online for members to network, share, problem solve, and stay informed on the latest trends in all HIM related topics.
9. APHA My Communities: The American Public Health Association offers members a way to network through a listserve, discussions and bulletin board.
10. ASHRM Exchange: This is a new Web-based community for the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management members.
11. AUPHA Network: These are Association of University Programs in Health Administration member-created and member-led groups regarding specific areas of healthcare management education.
12. CHIME Member Discussion List: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives provides several options for networking.
13. Colorado Women’s Forum in Health Administration: Membership is open to females who work or are interested in the healthcare industry and have a desire to network with others.
14. CSHEMA Forums: Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association members have opportunities for interaction with other campus safety professionals.
15. HIMSS Users Group Alliance Program: Take advantage of a variety of Healthcare Information and Management Systems independent communities that can help you do your job better.
16. MGMA Member Community: Members of the Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE) enjoy access to communities for growth.
17. NARHC List Serve: If you are a member of the National Association of Rural Health Clinics, this listserve can provide you with interactive support.
18. The Manager’s Electronic Resource Center Message Boards: The ERC community enables members to exchange experiences with other health professionals.
19. North Carolina’s PHRST Line Report: This state Public Health Regional Surveillance Team hosts a forum where the public health community can discuss public health issues.
20. NRHA Connect: The National Rural Health Association provides its members with the ability to discuss rural health leadership issues in a variety of venues.
21. PAHCOM Listserve Forum: Professional Association of Health Care Office Management members can help productivity of your health care office and reach your potential as a practice manager.

Management and Community Boards

22. AHRA Forum: This networking tool enables real time dialogue among imaging professionals through the Association for Medical Imaging Management Web site or via email.
23. Geriatric Health Management Forum: Join this site to participate in networking and discussion about geriatrics.
24. Health Informatics Forum: Join this open discussion at a site that encompasses various activities for HIT professionals.
25. HFMA Forums: You do not need to be a member to participate in any number of forums offered by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
26. RN Casemanager Forums: Take a look at the resources provided here for RN management opportunities and interaction.
27. Workforce Management Community Center Forums: Connect with other workforce management and human resource professionals in one of these topic-focused forums.

Student and Job Boards

28. Indeed Health Administration: Look for jobs by location at this job board.
29. Monster Health Administrator Jobs: Another job board that offers interaction in communities, networking and job searches.
30. Public Health Jobs Job Board: Use this site to find jobs and to network with health professionals.
31. Student Doctor Network Forums: SDN is internationally recognized as the most active academic health community in world.
32. Vault Job Board: Search for health administration positions and get involved in industry blogs and discussions on this board.

General Health Information

33. Clinical Connection: This is a message board for individuals to discuss health, illnesses, medicine, and clinical trials.
34. Health Message Boards: Use this tool to connect with resources on a variety of medical conditions.
35. Insight Live: This is a multi-media interactive site for those interested in FHI, a global health and development organization.
36. WebMD Health Boards: This Web community provides opportunities to provide help to others and network with peers.
37. MedHelp Community Forums: Active boards are divided into medical support communities and “Ask a Doctor” boards.
38. Population and Health InfoShare: InfoShare’s mission is to advance knowledge in global public health through information sharing and exchange.
39. ResearchGate: If you’re into research or need research, this site offers various groups to find information. Groups vary from public to members only, or you can create your own group.
40. Wego Health: This site empowers health activists to share information and contribute on a global basis.

Tools

1. 24SevenOffice: Some office suites offer email and calendars, but 24SevenOffice also offers billing software and an accounting program.
2. eSign-iT: An easy to use e-signature application that allows you to gain legally binding approvals for your requests.
3. Google Docs: Now a classic, Google Docs can keep your office happy, with online and collaborative documents, spreadsheets and presentation apps.
4. Harvest: Track time, log expenses, invoice clients, keep track of account receivables and revenue.
5. iSendr: Free Web service iSendr will instantaneously transfer a file directly from you to a client, employee or coworker, no server or software required.
6. Mobile Password Safe: Specify your own labels, categories, and search your passwords interactively.
7. paper.li: This tool can organize links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-read newspaper-style format for later use.
8. Zoho Office Suite: Zoho provides a wide, integrated portfolio of rich online applications for businesses. Zoho Mobile includes online access that can be synced with a variety of other devices and computers.

Collaboration

9. CentralDesktop: This online tool can increase team work and collaboration with online discussion threads, forums, wikis, blogs, social technology tools and web meetings.
10. Colaab: Review and collaborate on documents, images and video online and in real time.
11. Entri: Need some feedback on a blog post you’re putting together? Entri lets you write with a good editor, grab the link, then share it with colleagues to chime in.
12. Mindmeister: A secure and simple real-time brainstorming with colleagues that can be shared, used offline and with mobile access.
13. Octopz: This online service facilitates collaboration, in either synchronous or asynchronous environments through the use of digital media, Web conferencing, VoIP and content management technologies.
14. PBWorks: A shared workspace that links colleagues, clients and partners, along with password-protected projects.
15. PlanbookEdu: PlanbookEdu is great for administrators…although geared toward educators, the tools are great to use for any business that uses scheduling, classes, seminars, etc.
16. Vyew: This platform provides real-time interaction for content, presentations and training.

Communication

17. Campfire: Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate and make decisions in a password-protected chat room. Up to 60 people can chat at once.
18. DimDim: Hold live meetings and events using just your Web browser and this online app.
19. Followbase: This service scans Twitter and collects customer ideas, problems, questions and mentions of your company so you can share what people are saying and respond.
20. GizmoCall: Make free VoIP calls from your PC using your browser and a headset/microphone.
21. Grapevine: Grapevine keeps people within earshot of each other throughout the day via full-blown platform upon which you can build your very own Grapevine-powered applications for communication.
22. Heap CRM: Heap CRM keeps all or your contacts, messages, e-mails, files, events, tasks and much more all together.
23. ListMessenger: ListMessenger.net is an online system for e-mail marketing and sending e-mail newsletters.
24. SnailMailr: Use this online app to send a snail mail letter when needed. Attach your logo and take advantage of high quality color laser printing with this quick and inexpensive tool.
25. Tw’er: Want to spread the word about some activities or offers? Do it anonymously with this easy-to-use Twitter tool.

Productivity

26. ClockWork: Use this time management solution to track what you do during your day.
27. EasyTasker — Business and Project Management: A simple, easy-to-use web app where you can manage all the main areas of running a business from your iPhone, Blackberry or computer.
28. Lattiss Online Appointment Scheduler: Free app provides plenty of presence to better serve small business Internet-savvy clients and members.
29. MightyMeeting: Manage a private library of presentations directly from your computer, iPod Touch, or iPhone. Supports presentations in Microsoft Office or PDF formats.
30. Producteev: Producteev will help you manage your tasks from wherever you’re comfortable working : E-mail, IM, Web, iPhone, Gmail, Google Calendar…
31. Schedule It: Online scheduling for staff, rooms and equipment that saves time and money.
32. Springpad: Springpad not only captures things and organizes them for later (like Evernote); it also figures out what you’re saving and tries to put it into context and help you use it.
33. TimeBridge: TimeBridge, a free meeting scheduling web app, is the only tool you’ll need to confirm agreeable meeting times with clients, employees and colleagues.

Travel

34. A simple to use translator: Translate your text in more then 10 different languages.
35. Bing Maps: Use Bing Maps online to learn about traffic, share maps and find walking directions. Bing Maps also can find your taxi route and estimate the fare.
36. Coinmill: An easy-to-use Web-interface exchange rate conversion calculator.
37. PadPal: Create a free travel Website to share your meetings and create instant public relations.
38. ParkWhiz: Help yourself and others find a convenient parking space for office visits, seminars and more with this online app.
39. RoadTripHelper: Use this meta search engine to find hotels by attraction, address, city, landmark, intersection and more on this innovative mashup map.
40. Syncd: An accurate, flexible and easy to use online time and expense tracking service that works great for freelancers or for teams of any size.

Many, though, are more interested in what has already taken place. While many of the provisions in healthcare reform will not take place until 2014, there are already some items that have already taken effect. Some of the changes to healthcare reform may already be impacting your wallet. We are in the neighborhood of the six-month anniversary of the signing of the healthcare reform bill, and it is time to take stock. Health administration officials, as well as members of the general public, have it in their best interests to understand what is already in effect. Here are 10 health care reform items effective in 2010:

1. Adult Children Remain on Parents’ Policy Until 26

One of the provisions of the health care reform bill already in effect is that adult children can remain on their parents’ health policy until they are 26. Prior to the new law, states set their own ages for taking children off parental policies, usually sometime between 21 and 23. Now, if the dependent does not have the ability to get insurance through his or her own employer, it is possible to remain on the parents’ policy. This rule only applies to new policies, although health insurance companies have to provide coverage on existing policies (but it can be separate and might be expensive).

2. No More Lifetime Caps on Coverage

Starting in September 2010, insurance companies can no longer put lifetime caps on coverage. This means that insurance policies can no longer come with limits on lifetime payouts, many of which were capped at $1 million or $2 million prior to the passage of the law. For most people, the lift on caps is not a big deal, but for those with medical catastrophes, that limit comes up pretty fast. Starting in 2014, the annual caps that some companies put on coverage will be abolished as well.

3. Children Under 19 Cannot be Excluded for Pre-Existing Conditions

One of the biggest issues with health insurance coverage is the pre-existing condition. Starting this year, children with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage. The rule is already in effect for those whose plan dates are October. The rule is in effect starting on the next plan date, so if your plan date is October 1, then your renewal will not exclude children under 19 due to a pre-existing condition. January 1 and July 1 plan dates will be phased in during 2011, and most of the population over 19 will be included in 2014.

4. Adults with Pre-Existing Conditions Have a New Option

If you have a pre-existing condition, and you are 19 or older, you can still be denied healthcare coverage until 2014, when many of the reform rules take effect. However, if you have a pre-existing condition and want coverage, you can buy into a health insurance plan offered by the government right now.

5. “Doughnut Hole” Closes

The infamous “doughnut hole” caused by Medicare legislation in 2003 has cost seniors quite a bit as they struggle to pay for their own medications after reaching a certain amount. There is a gap in prescription drug coverage until seniors have spent more money out of pocket. The new bill closes this gap in the future, and offers immediate assistance with paying for prescriptions right now.

6. Early Retirees Get Help

One of the issues facing early retirees is paying for health insurance now that they no longer have an employer’s plan — but are too young for Medicare. The healthcare reform bill provides help for those in this situation. Right now, it is possible for early retirees (aged 55 and older) to have access to health coverage until they qualify for Medicare. The program works by providing assistance to employers so that they can extend coverage to early retirees.

7. Free Preventative Healthcare

Much has been said about how the U.S. health care system is more about “sick care”, since prevention gets so little play. However, healthcare reform requires that new plans have to cover certain preventative services starting on September 23. Some of the covered services include cancer screening, cholesterol and diabetes tests, blood pressure checks, vaccines for a range of illnesses, well-child visits up to the age of 21, pap smears, and mammograms for those older than 40.

8. Funding for Community Health Centers

Early funding for some community health centers is provided for by the healthcare reform bill, starting in fiscal year 2010. Community health centers offer valuable services for some underserved members of rural and inner-city communities. Early funding is a great help for these communities, which are slated to receive an additional funds over the course of five years.

9. Small Businesses Get Special Tax Credit

For small businesses interested in providing healthcare coverage for their employees, there are special small business tax credits available starting in calendar year 2010. Tax credits of up to 35% of premiums paid are being offered right now for small businesses. In 2014, though, the tax credit increases. It is expected that small businesses will receive up to 50% in tax credits when more of the law’s provisions take effect. In order to get the 50%, though, employers will have to pay directly, rather than use an agreement that reduces salary.

10. No More Recissions

One of the practices that have many upset with health insurance companies is that of recission. Recission takes place when the health insurance company drops your coverage when you get sick, in order to avoid paying for your treatment. Effective six months after enactment, this rule bans health insurance companies from dropping you just because you get sick. It is a way to ensure that you continue to receive the coverage you have paid for.

Bonus: More Transparency

One of the more immediate provisions of the healthcare reform bill is that health insurance companies have to be more transparent. Insurers must post their balance sheets on the Internet, and disclose executive compensation, as well as other costs. There are hopes that such a requirement will put pressure on health insurance companies when it comes to setting premiums.

Despite the increase in international health care concerns and administration, many countries continue to practice gendercide through a variety of methods. The following 25 studies and infographics about gendercide may open your eyes to the various methods used for discrimination of various populations.

Gendercide, Men and Women

1. The Women’s Crusade vs. Wars and Casualties: According to this blog entry, global statistics show that “more girls and women are now missing from the planet, precisely because they are female, than men were killed on the battlefield in all the wars of the 20th century.”
2. Gendercide: The State of Study: This paper explores the early articulation of Mary Anne Warren’s gendercide framework, and the conclusion explores whether gendercide remains as prominent now in political-military conflicts and social institutions worldwide as in the past.
3. Recognizing ‘gendercide’: This article looks at gendercide from male and female perspectives, with links to resources that show rape as a weapon of war and to the killing of 8,000 Bosnian non-combatant men and boys as policy.
4. Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention: Incorporating the Gender Variable: This paper, written in 2002, notes that women are gendercide targets (including maternal mortality), but “battle-age” men are targets as well, often presaging a full-scale genocide.
5. Percentage of Pregnancies Aborted by Country: Abortion is a hotly debated issue in the U.S., although this data shows the U.S. in the middle of all countries listed, with Russia leading by 52 percent of all pregnancies aborted and Panama coming in last at .02 percent. U.S. rates at 22.6 percent. This table is just one of many located at this Johnston Archives site, although no tables exist for gender-based abortions.
6. Impact of female feticide on gender disparities in child health and survival in India: This recording produced by Johns Hopkins suggests that elimination of sex-selective abortion could lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality.

Noteworthy Articles and Blogs

7. Female infanticide, Living oppressed or dying in vain: While this article brings up some valid points, the graphic is not cited, nor are many of the points in the article. The two links lead to Christian articles that may or may not be biased in their statements.
8. Female Feticide: This Frontline article provides the information that the previous blog lacks — facts about the sale of ultrasound machines to countries displaying loss of female infants by census. Feticide is another word for abortion (or, termination of pregnancy, also known as TOP), usually performed during or after the second trimester.
9. GE Business Dilemma: Ultrasound Technology and Feticide: Offered by GE, this article and links to further articles, prepare GE’s background into accusations connecting their machines to female feticide in India.
10. Female Infanticide, Two Case Studies from India and China [PDF]: While this study is cited informally within the body of the text, it appears to be more of an opinion piece based upon reports offered from Gendercide Watch, a resource noted in the “resources” category below.
11. Gendercide, International Women’s Day and The Economist: This article, published in From Poverty to Power, critiques a piece carried by The Economist this year entitled, Gendercide. This graphic, one of two contained within this article, shows a decline in males per 100 females in South Korea, and upticks in males per 100 females in China, India and Northwest India.
12. Saving the World’s Women: This seven-page article in The New York Times online presents numerous studies, with the raw conclusion that women seem to be worth more when they earn more money or become educated.
13. A Cutting Tradition: The New York Times focuses on female circumcision, and notes that, while male circumcision demonstrates health benefits, there is no medical value in female circumcision.
14. Pharaonic Circumcision (infibulation): This article, which centers on Islamic ruling on male and female circumcision, focuses on the mutilation and possible sterilization involved in this extreme female circumcision practice.
15. Silence greets ‘gendercide’ of women: This article, written in 2009, predates The Economist’s article noted above; however, the author focuses on the book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the same authors of the seven-page article in The New York Times, also listed above. Of note is attention to U.S. women, who continue to be victims of gender violence, mostly based upon economic disparities.

Recent U.S. Issues

16. International Infant Mortality Rates: This study does not mention gendercide, nor does it include China or India. The graph shows the rate of infant deaths per 1,000 births in industrialized nations. The U.S. infant mortality rate was more than twice that of six other industrialized countries in 2004, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden and Finland. However, this rate decreased from the 1998 figure of 7.1 deaths per 1,000 births in the U.S.
17. The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker: The story about Plecker is well known in the Amherst, Virginia area, where Plecker focused undue attention to the Monacan Indian population in that region. Plecker’s case against the Native American in Virginia did not end until 1997, when Governor George Allen repudiated Plecker’s policies (including The Racial Integrity Act) and implemented a law through which Native Americans could receive corrected birth certificates, free of charge.
18. Unequal Pay: The Equal Pay Act was made law in 1963, almost fifty years ago. Yet, women still earn less than men, with a wage gap that has narrowed by less than half a cent per year as shown by this graphic.
19. Death By American Bombing and Other Democide: Although this site represents an entire resource for democide (death by government, relating to genocide), this page focuses on the number of individuals killed worldwide by American war movements.

Resources

20. Aegis: “Preventing Crimes Against Humanity” is the tag line for this site, which focuses on human rights and genocide, including gendercide.
21. Crimes of War: This project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict.
22. Gendercide Watch: This entire Web site is filled with case studies, links and resources about gendercide, with a focus on women and an increasing focus on men. Note: Many links on this site return a “404.”
23. Journal of Genocide Research: This journal promotes an interdisciplinary and comparative peer-reviewed approach to the study of genocide. Portions of articles available through Google Scholar.
24. P.A.P. Statistics: Human rights statistics abound here, ranging from abortion to xenophobia.
25. Women Watch: This section of the United Nations site is devoted to gender disparities worldwide with an emphasis on women.

Northeast

1. Hospital University of Pennsylvania — Founded in 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also known as the City of Brotherly Love, this hospital is often lauded for it’s commitment to researching innovative treatments for new diseases. In addition to being ranked #8 on the U.S. News & World Report of the Best Hospitals in America, this hospital boasts a fantastic helicopter fleet called PennSTAR, which serves to transport critically injured patients to the hospital.
2. Johns Hopkins Hospital — Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this teaching hospital and biomedical research facility saw the inception of many medical specialties including child psychiatry, cardiac surgery, urology, neurosurgery, and pediatrics. Johns Hopkins has the distinction of being ranked the number one hospital in America for 20 straight years, a fact that is never lost on it’s hard working healthcare professionals.



3. Massachusetts General Hospital — This hospital first opened its doors in Boston in 1811. Since then, this Harvard Medical School teaching hospital has been consistently grouped with the best in the country. Patient care is the number one priority for MGH professionals. To that end, MGH has over 905 beds and serves around 45,000 patients every year.
4. NYU Medical Center — New York City, “The Big Apple,” is home to one of the top hospitals in the country. Founded in 1841, this hospital has a history of having some of the best physicians in the world on its staff. In fact, one of the first surgeons to work for the NYU Medical Center was John Revere, son of famous patriot Paul Revere.



5. Yale – New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut is home to Yale University’s hospital. YNHH has received consistent acclaim for its excellence in specialty medical areas that include cancer, diabetes and endocrine disorders, digestive disorders, ear, geriatric care, gynecology, heart surgery, and more.
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell — NYC has another best hospital on this list; one that many consider to be among the most comprehensive hospitals in the world. Having the resources of two Ivy League institutions for support also helps this hospital to stay ahead of the curve in service and emerging medical technologies.

South

7. Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Founded in 1874, in the great city of Nashville, Tennessee, VUMC boasts an impressive medical resume with a large number of expertly trained medical care professionals committed to giving patients the best care available. Recently, VAMU has received recognition for pioneering several medical systems, including the keeping of electronic records.
8. Duke University Medical Center — Since 1930 Durham, North Carolina, has been home to one of the top Hospitals in the South. Duke University Hospital is a “full-service tertiary and quaternary care hospital” that operates 924 acute care beds and 19 psychiatry beds. Thousands of patients each year are treated here, and the hospital plans on continuing expansion.



9. The Methodist Hospital — Located in Houston, Texas, this hospital was ranked #20 in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report of America’s best hospitals. Its specialties are recognized around the world as some of the best in the field. These include cardiovascular surgery, cancer treatment, and epilepsy treatment. The Methodist Hospital has a successful affiliation with New York-Presbyterian, another hospital on our list.
10. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa — Tampa, Florida is home to one of the best centers for cancer research and treatment. Cancer remains one of the most deadly diseases around today, and persons working at this hospital make its treatment their priority.

Midwest

11. Ohio State University Hospital — Columbus, Ohio is home to one of the best hospitals in the country. The Ohio State University hospital has made research core to its mission, and having support from one of the largest research institutions in the world has helped significantly with this goal. Additionally, this hospital has received high rankings for a variety of specialties including cancer, rehabilitation, and gynecology.
12. Mayo Clinic — You can find one of the best hospitals in America, in Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo clinic has consistently been ranked #2 in the country, behind only Johns Hopkins, because of its commitment to patient care and research. The Mayo Clinic also ranks in the top three for many specialties including, diabetes and endocrine disorders, digestive disorders, neurology, and neurosurgery.



13. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University — Founded in 1902 in St. Louis, this hospital has been on the U.S. News & World Report hospital honor list for the last 18 years. Barnes-Jewish hospital is well-regarded in many specialties including cancer care, lung care, transplant services, and heart care. In fact, this hospital has the distinction of pioneering many procedures such as ablation therapies and valve repair/replacement.
14. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers — Ann Arbor, Michigan, is where you’ll find another one of the best hospitals in the country. this hospital has been pioneering treatments and caring for patients since 1850. UMH has received high rankings in the specialty areas of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Neurology, and Neurosurgery.



15. Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio is home to the hospital with the best cardiology department in the country. This hospital was most recently ranked #4 overall in the nation, and has been providing patients with fantastic care since its foundation in 1921.

West

16. University of Washington Medical Center — Seattle is home to one of the best hospitals in America. Ranked #11 by U.S. News & World Report, with acclaimed specialty areas in rehabilitation, orthopedics, geriatrics, and more. This hospital is one of the best in the West, if not the world.



17. University Medical Center — In the desert of Tuscon, Arizona, you’ll find this fantastic hospital. This hospital was founded in 1971, and has received significant rankings in many categories including cardiothoracic and multidisciplinary transplants.
18. University of California, San Francisco Medical Center — This hospital is considered to be one of the best in the country in patient care, medical education, and health sciences research. Since its foundation in 1873, healthcare professionals working here have had a commitment to providing the best treatments possible to all those in need. Patients can also benefit from the extensive resources that being part of the University of California network provides.



19. Stanford Hospital and Clinics — In sunny Stanford, California one of the best hospitals in America continues to set an excellent example in the health care field. With over 40,000 visits yearly, 20,000 of them being inpatients, this hospital certainly serves the larger community.
20. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center — Located on UCLA’s beautiful sprawling campus, this hospital has received rankings in the top twenty in 15 of the 16 medical specialties ranked by the U.S. News & World Report every year for the last decade.

Government Information and Resources

One of the best places to go is the government if you are looking for up-to-date information on pandemics and tools to track outbreaks. Here are some government and public health information resources that can help you in the event of a pandemic.

1. PandemicFlu.gov: Just what it sounds like, this site is set up to help you keep up with the latest developments in a pandemic flu situation.
2. Office of Medical Services Pandemic Influenza Plan: This site provides the plan for dealing with widespread illness, developed by the U.S. State Department.
3. Department of Health and Human Services: Turn to the HHS if you are interested in the latest news and tips for dealing with any current public health emergency.
4. Centers for Disease Control: This site contains tips for protecting yourself and includes outbreak maps for pandemics.
5. UN Pandemic Influenza Contingency: See the United Nations plan for pandemic preparedness, and get tips on personal protection.
6. World Health Organization: This site offers alerts on global pandemics and coordinates worldwide responses. You can get helpful tips on protecting yourself, as well as helping to organize relief efforts.
7. Public Health Agency of Canada: Get information from Canada about public health threats and how to protect yourself from pandemics.
8. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: The European Union has its own web site devoted to helping to track pandemics and provide information.
9. American Red Cross: This is not a government resource, but the Red Cross does have valuable public health information and tips for what to do in a pandemic situation.

General Pandemic Preparedness

Be prepared for a pandemic, or any other health emergency. These sites offer helpful insights and tools for general emergency preparation.

10. Ready America: This is a U.S. government site that is devoted to emergency preparedness, and can help you get yourself ready in advance for the next pandemic.
11. Top 20 Ways to Prepare for a Pandemic: This helpful tip sheet is from the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services.
12. Pandemic Influenza: What You Can Do To Be Ready: The Minnesota Department of Health offers a handy list of things you can do to prepare for a pandemic.
13. Answers to Swine Flu Questions: Get the answers to the most important H1N1 questions from CNN.
14. Swine Flu FAQ: Not everything is covered in the CNN list, so you can read this FAQ from WebMD to get a little more information.
15. Oregon Public Health Emergency Preparedness: This site, while aimed at Oregonians, also provides helpful information for anyone else interested in tools and tips. Check your own state for something similar.
16. Flu Checklist: Use this checklist from the Red Cross to determine if you are ready for a pandemic.
17. Questions About Swine Flu: The New York Times provides a video about swine flu and how you can protect yourself from a pandemic.

Family Preparedness

You want to make sure that your family is properly prepared for a pandemic. Here are some helpful resources to help you make a plan for family preparedness.

18. Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals and Families: Get help on how to create a plan, and learn the differences between protecting yourself from seasonal flu and a strain of pandemic flu.
19. Make a Plan: This emergency preparedness site helps you make a plan for emergencies, including a form to help you get started.
20. Family Emergency Planning: While this is aimed at members of the LDS Church through the Provident Living site, the tools and tips can help any family with emergency planning.
21. How to Swine Flu Proof You and Your Family: This is a helpful guide from eHow on how to get your family prepared for and protected from pandemic flu.
22. Talking with Children about a Flu Pandemic: Helpful tips and resources on explaining a pandemic to your children.
23. Preparing for Pandemic Flu: A Family Checklist Video: This video is helpful for families who are interested in preparing for pandemics.
24. Let’s Get Ready!: This resource from Sesame Workshop helps you get ready for emergencies with your family.
25. Pandemic Flu…What to do, what to do!: This is a kids’ page from the National Institutes of Health aimed at helping children learn about public health emergency preparedness.

Online Tools

Interested in keeping track of pandemics online? Want the latest information and emergency tips? You can use these online tools to stay updated during the next pandemic.

26. Google Alerts: Set up alerts using desired keywords to help you get the latest information delivered right to your inbox.
27. QuickShare My Emergency Information: This tools helps you create an email message with emergency information that can be easily and quickly shared with the important people in your life.
28. Twitter: Everyone is on Twitter. And it can also help you find tips and news updates on pandemics. Search keywords and use hashtags to find the latest.
29. Global Map of Pandemic Risk: This offering from Maplecroft is accessible through docstoc and can help you see where the biggest pandemic threats are.
30. CDCemergency: This is the Twitter account for the CDC’s emergency updates. Follow to get tips and resource hints from the Centers for Disease Control.
31. HealthMap: This global disease map offers an interactive resource to keep you updated on pandemics.
32. Where You Live: This interactive map from Flu.gov helps you find out what is happening where you are right now.
33. Widgets from HHS: The Health and Human Services deparment has widgets that can direct readers to the latest pandemic information.
34. Google Maps: Where there is a pandemic, there is a Google Map that can help you plot it out. Most recently, there was a Swine Flu map with confirmed and probable cases.

iPhone Apps

You can track disease outbreaks and pandemics with the help of your iPhone.

35. Outbreaks Near Me: This app from the Children’s Hospital in Boston helps you find local pockets of disease.
36. FDA Mobile: Get the latest health information and tips for protecting yourself while on the go from the Food and Drug Administration.
37. Mobile World Disaster: If you want to know immediately when disaster strikes, this iPhone app will keep you in the loop.
38. HealthMap: This is an iPhone app that can help you see, on your phone, exactly where health issues are most prevalent.
39. Diagnose the Disease: This app is designed to help you identify diseases. While not a true substitute for a medical professional, it can nevertheless provide some needed help and information.
40. CDC News Reader: Get the latest from the Centers for Disease Control — no matter where you are.
41. PEPID Elements Infections Disease & Travel Medicine: Keep track of where diseases are, and what you can do to protect yourself with this handy iPhone app.
42. Emergency Radio: This iPhone app lets you listen in to emergency radio stations from all around the country in order to get the latest information.

Pandemic Tips

You want to be adequately prepared, and you also want to be calm and collected. Here are some tips that can help you protect yourself in a pandemic situation.

43. Wash your hands: You want to be as clean as possible. One of the best things you can do to protect yourself from a pandemic is to properly wash your hands.
44. First Aid kit: Put together, or purchase, a First Aid kit that can be used in a number of situations, including a pandemic.
45. Have a stockpile: Before a pandemic hits, make sure you have some food storage, as well as emergency money. You should also have other items on hand, in the event you are in the house for an extended period of time.
46. Telecommute: If you have a job that can be performed, at least temporarily, from home, ask about telecommuting to avoid being involved in the spread of a pandemic.
47. Consider a facemask: If you are truly concerned, you can find CDC approved facemasks to help protect you from a pandemic.
48. Stay healthy: Maintaining healthy diet, exercise and sleep habits can keep your immune system in good shape, helping you ward off pandemic illness.
49. Be educated: Learn about what to do, and how to do it. Get information from reliable sources so that you are prepared for a pandemic situation.
50. Don’t panic: It is very important to realize that pandemics have been happening throughout history. If you prepare properly and take precautions, you can reduce your chances of falling victim.

1. Testicular Cancer (Lance Armstrong): Very people were willing to talk about testicular cancer before Lance Armstrong came along. However, when Lance Armstrong, the famous road racing cyclist, admitted that he suffered from the disease, the condition achieved instant celebrity. Armstrong’s determination to continue excelling at his sport, and his subsequent record-breaking, seventh win at the Tour de France, provides inspiration for cancer survivors everywhere. Since then, Armstrong has become more than a spokesman bringing awareness of testicular cancer; he has started his own foundation, the Live Strong Foundation, for all types of cancer research, and single-handedly started a fashion trend for rubber bracelets to raise awareness of a cause.
2. Colorectal Cancer (Katie Couric): Katie Couric is known for her former role on the “Today” show, as well as for being the first female anchor for a network nightly news program. But she is also known for bringing colorectal cancer to light. It took her many years after her husband’s death to begin speaking about colon cancer, but she began to become more outspoken as her pain began to heal. She put together a special series for the “Today” show on colon cancer, and continues to be a spokesperson for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, which she helped found. The alliance is one that focuses on efforts to get the entertainment industry involved in spreading the word about this common, but not often talked about, cancer.
3. Sickle Cell Disease (Kiki Shepard): A little-known disease that affects predominantly black women is sickle cell disease. In order to bring awareness to this disease, Kiki Shepard routinely holds a celebrity bowling event to raise funds. Shepard is known as the long-time co-host of the television program “It’s Showtime at the Apollo.” She is also known as the “Queen of Fashion” in some circles. She has done acting and voice acting as well. Sickle cell disease falls into main types, including Sickle Cell Anemia, Sickle-Hemoglobin C Disease, Sickle Beta-Plus Thalassemia and Sickle Beta-Zero Thalassemia. Shepard’s bowling evening routinely brings out such stars as Tatyana Ali, James Pickens, Jr., Loretta Devine and DJ MC Lyte.
4. Parkinson’s Disease (Michael J. Fox): This degenerative disease did not get a lot of play on the national airwaves until Michael J. Fox revealed that he suffers from the disease. This is a disease that eventually results in the inability to move, and it also results in an inability to communicate clearly. There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but there are treatments that can slow its progression. Michael J. Fox made drew even more attention to Parkinson’s — and created a controversy — when he appeared in ads about the disease and stem cell research, as well as appearing before Congress to give testimony, without taking the medication that keeps his tremors in check. He did so in order to provide a visual of what Parkinson’s disease does to the body.
5. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (Lou Gehrig): You probably still haven’t heard of ALS. But that’s because, for the most part, no one calls it that anymore. Instead, you probably know ALS as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. At the time that Lou Gehrig had to stop playing for the Yankees, due in part to the ravages of ALS, he was one of the most well-known and beloved public figures. As a result, the entire diseased was sub-titled with his name. The ALS Association still works to raise funds to help those with the disease, and ease the symptoms. Like so many other diseases, there is no cure for ALS, but there is hope that Lou Gehrig’s Disease might some day be defeated.
6. Thyroid problems (Oprah Winfrey): Many of us are unaware of the gland in the body known as the thyroid gland. It is large as endocrine glands go, but you would probably be unimpressed by its size. It is located in the front part of the neck. The thyroid and its gland can cause a number of problems, including issues with weight. In 2007, Oprah Winfrey brought awareness of thyroid problems to the forefront by sharing that she had been diagnosed with a thyroid gland problem. While there are different reasons for thyroid problems, the bottom line is that once this is identified, many health and weight problems can be better managed.
7. Craniosynostosis (Jorge Posada): Jorge Posada is one of the best loved and recognizable players for the Yankees baseball team today. He has been acknowledged a great catcher and a fairly consistent hitter. Posada also has a child affected by craniosynostosis. This disease is defect of the brain that involves closure, prematurely, of the joints between the joints of skull. Surgery can be used to help alleviate the problem, but it is expensive. Posada set up a foundation designed to help provide emotional support and financial assistance to families affected by this problem.
8. Neuroblastoma (Tom Hanks): One of the most devastating diseases that affects children and infants is neuroblastoma. This is a type of cancerous tumor that attacks nerve tissue. The disease can cause a number of issues, including abdominal swelling, rapid pulse and breathing problems. Surgery can be attempted in order to help the condition, and other therapies are available. Tom Hanks has long been a spokesperson for raising awareness of neuroblastoma on behalf of the James Fund. Hanks was inspired by a young boy’s fight with neuroblastoma (which ended with his death at the age of eight), and wrote the forward to a book authored by the boy’s father.
9. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (Montel Williams): One of the reasons that multiple sclerosis (MS) is so well-known today is due to the efforts of former talk show host Montel Williams. When Williams shared that he was afflicted with MS, it managed to become more prominent on the national scene. Williams started his own foundation dedicated to fighting MS, and providing funding for organizations and research that attempt to find a cure for the diseases and look at ways to slow the disease. He also wrote a book about his fight with the disease. MS is one of those diseases that cannot be cured, but that can be countered with certain lifestyle choices and actions to help slow the effects of progress.
10. Autism (Doug Flutie): We hear about autism quite a bit these days. But it wasn’t always that way. Diagnosis of autism, and the recognition that there are different forms of the condition, have made leaps since Doug Flutie, Jr., the football player, first started a foundation in an effort to help his autistic son, and others like him. Autism has since become more recognized, and a number of conditions have been put on the “autism spectrum”. Flutie’s foundation provides emotional and financial support for families who are affected by autism. Without Flutie’s efforts, autism may not have the resources that it has today.

1. Outbreaks Near Me

Get the latest information on local disease outbreaks. Right now, the most popular use of this app is to track the swine flu. This iPhone app is a “grassroots” epidemiology effort based on HealthMap. It is possible for you to check the app and see whether a disease outbreak has been reported in your area. You can upload your own information and create your own reports using Outbreaks Near Me.

This app was developed by researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston, along with help from the MIT Media Lab. It does more than track swine flu — it can trace outbreaks from a number of infectious diseases.

2. Mobile World Disaster

If you are looking to keep track of what’s going on in the world, Mobile World Disaster news is a good choice. This iPhone app, developed by Crossgates AC, provides a helpful search feature, and includes Meta tags to make things easier for you. You can receive emergency updates about a number of disasters, from earthquakes to tornadoes to hurricanes.

And it’s not just natural disasters. Mobile World Disaster can help you stay on top of epidemics and pandemics. If you are concerned about travel to distant places, you can check to see what kinds of diseases you will have to worry about. This app also helps you track the spread of pandemics, and keeps you informed with the latest news. It’s no surprise that, right now, the most recent version has been updated with helpful information on Swine Flu.

3. Swine Flu News Tracker

Concerned about swine flu? Well, now you can keep track of the latest news with regard to swine flu. Crossgates AC has taken the same type of technology used for the Mobile World Disaster iPhone app and applied it specifically to swine flu. If you are more concerned about what is being considered the next pandemic (especially this fall as back to school is expected to see an increase in swine flu), this app can help keep you abreast of what is going on.

Swine Flu News Tracker includes information on where the latest outbreaks are, and what others are doing to combat the disease. Additionally, this iPhone app includes helpful information on how to protect yourself and your family from swine flu, and tracks where the disease is most prevalent in the world — so you can avoid it.

4. Influenza A (H1N1) Tracker

This is another iPhone app based on the public’s desire to keep up with the swine flu. This is a very simple application from Web it Up. This application is designed to help you keep track of where the swine flu is, how many people have been infected, and how many deaths there have been. It’s actually rather helpful, since the information is arranged by country.

For the United States, the information is further broken down according to state. If you are interested in knowing where the swine flu is most active, and where it is doing the most damage, it is relatively easy to find that information in a very simple format. This application also includes the assessment level offered by the World Health Organization.

5. FDA Mobile

This is a neat application straight from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If you are looking for the latest health news and disease outbreak information, you can have delivered straight to your iPhone. It is possible to get the latest on disease epidemics, and to track smaller outbreaks. Right now, of course, the main focus for many people is the swine flu. However, the FDA Mobile app can provide information for any disease that threatens to go pandemic. Updates with press reports of the spread of the disease, along with the latest WHO assessment, can be had quickly and easily.

You can also get access to non-outbreak related information. Find FDA warnings (searchable) on products and services. Find human clinical trials data, look for drug shortage information and get the latest news and releases, including the latest medical devices and treatments to be approved. This app is helpful on a number of levels that have to do with your health.

6. CDC News Reader

The Centers for Disease Control is one of the places to go if you want the latest disease outbreak information. You can get all of the latest happenings in the world of infectious diseases right on your iPhone. This news reader takes the top stories issued from the CDC, and sends them to you. This includes outbreaks, such as a multi-state E. Coli outbreak, and even the swine flu. If you want to track diseases and see where the danger lies, the CDC News Reader can keep you informed. A share feature can help you keep those you love in the loop as well.

In addition to tracking diseases, the CDC News Reader also provides other useful information, including emergency preparedness, environmental health alerts, travel notices and other updates. The application also includes a landscape mode, so that you can get a better view.

7. PEPID Elements: Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine

This iPhone application is ideal for the traveler. If you are concerned about what sort of disease you might get when you travel overseas, you can consult this iPhone app for an idea of what’s out there. Not only can this application help you figure out where you are most likely to catch something, but it can actually help you identify whether or not you have it. You can get advice on how to manage infectious diseases, and steps you can take to curb its spread.

This iPhone app also offers dynamic medical calculators and provides information on drug interactions, possibilities and more. The Platinum version, designed for physicians, also has helpful features that can help those who practice medicine better perform their duties.

8. Swine Flu Tracker

IntuApps has the Swine Flu Tracker. This can help you keep track of where the swine flu, and where it might be going. This application is aimed specifically at travelers who still want to globe trot — but in relative safety. Swine Flu Tracker makes use of Google Maps to help you monitor the spread of the disease.

In addition to providing travel warnings and information about the global spread of swine flu (including World Health Organization data), this app also includes helpful information on symptoms of swine flu, what to do if you think you have become infected. This interactive application also features information from the CDC and other respected sources, helping you sift fact from fiction when it comes to the most recent pandemic.

9. The Swine Flu Tracker

This final swine flu app is available from GPS Kit developer Garafa. The company uses its GPS savvy to create a disease outbreak tracker that can help you keep tabs on a number of diseases. Right now, swine flu is quite understandably the focus. However, the app is not limited to swine flu. Other infectious diseases can be tracked using this application, and it also includes information on the disease in question.

Using a map, you can visually see where there have been confirmed cases of the disease in question, as well as see where deaths have taken place. The application works world wide, so you can check up on different countries, and see the places you should avoid.

10. iEmergency

It isn’t exactly a disease tracker, but if you succumb to something, iEmergency can help. This iPhone app by KAVAPOINT is designed to provide your health and emergency information to others if you are incapacitated. The idea is that you can store your allergies, an emergency contact and other information on you iPhone, to be seen if there is a problem. You can even create a lock banner if your iPhone is password protected. There is also one touch emergency calling to make things easier to get in touch with your emergency contacts.

There really is no substitute for peace of mind. You never know when an emergency will come, and you can use this app to make sure you are prepared — and make sure that your loved ones are contacted and know what happened.

Medical Job Blogs

These are blogs that focus on helping you find a job in the medical field.

1. Non-Clinical Medical Jobs, Careers and Opportunities: Looks at different aspects of non-clinical medical work. Provides opportunities and leads, as well as helpful and information articles.
2. Jobs-2o: Blog, forum and job board that provides postings on medical job openings and career helps.
3. Premier Health Careers: Looks at medical and health care careers and includes job openings.
4. BioJobBlog: Features information on what is happening in the world of medical and clinical careers. Special emphasis on pharmaceutical careers.
5. Healthcare Executive Careers Blog: Offers insight into healthcare executive careers, as well as providing insight into job openings and how to find a job as a health care exec.

Doctor Blogs

Learn about what it’s like to be a physician, and get insight into what it takes to be a successful doctor.

6. Physician Careers Blog: Learn about how to prepare your materials and market yourself as a doctor. What it takes to get hired as a doctor.
7. GruntDoc: Looks at everyday doctoring — from the perspective of someone who once a doctor in the military.
8. Doctor Anonymous: Follow the life of a family care physician living in Ohio.
9. Surgeonsblog: Find out what it’s like to be a surgeon, and explore some of the issues involved in health care.
10. KevinMD: One of the best blogs focusing on the medical and health care world and the issues that doctors face.

Nursing Blogs

Learn about what it’s like to be a nurse, and how to become a nurse.

11. madness: tales of an emergency room nurse: Get a down and dirty look at what it’s like working as a nurse in the emergency room.
12. St. Vincent’s Hospital Darlinghurst – Male Nurses: An interesting look at male nurses and what goes on in their world, with an Australian perspective.
13. Misadventurous Melissa: Follows the adventures of someone who is a nurse and an attorney. An interesting career path.
14. Nurse Healers: Blog that highlights the healing aspect of nursing.
15. Psychonurse’s Padded Cell: Critical care nurse shares the ins and outs of her day.
16. Nurse Practitioner’s Place: Focuses on what it is to be a practicing nurse.

Dentist and Orthodontist Blogs

Working on teeth can be an interesting career. Learn about it first time from these dentists and orthodontists.

17. The Tooth Booth Dental Blog: Learn about what is happening in the world of dentistry, and about a day in the life of a dentist.
18. Marty Jablow DMD: Find out about dentistry and what the issues involved in working with teeth.
19. About.com Dental Care: A great blog that focuses on different aspects of dental care and dentistry.
20. The Dental Implant Blog: Learn about what it’s like working with dental implants and how to use it as a career.
21. Exceptional Dental Practice Management: Learn about properly managing your dental practice.
22. Ask Dr. Straight Orthodontic Blog: Find out more about orthodontics and what goes into it as a career.

Radiology Blogs

One of the medical careers in highest demand is radiology. Learn about this exciting career path.

23. Dave’s Places in Radiology: A blog for imaging professionals, focusing on how you can do your job better.
24. Why?: The thoughts of an x-ray tech on life and radiology.
25. Radiology 101: Learn more about radiology as a career, and what it takes to make it.
26. Aunt Minnie: Keep up to date on the latest in radiology, and issues facing health care.
27. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Medicine Podcast: Listen to the latest news in radiology and nuclear medicine, and learn about career tips and issues.

Alternative Medicine Blogs

Find a career in alternative medicine. Holistic healing and wellness can make a great career.

28. Next Generation Chiropractor: Looks at what it takes to be a chiropractor today, and offers helpful career and practice hints.
29. The Chiropractic Blog: Helpful information on how to improve your chiropractic practice.
30. Massage Geeks: A blog about massage therapy and how you can enhance your skills and practice.
31. Acupuncture Health Blog: Takes a look at practicing acupuncture and how it can enhance health.

Medical Assisting Blogs

Learn about becoming a medical assistant, and the health careers involved. Hygienists included in this batch of blogs.

32. Medical Assistant Net Career Blog: Get helpful hints on being a better medical assistant and finding job openings.
33. The American Society of Podiatric Medical Assistant’s Blog: Review job openings and post your own seeking employment wishes on this blog. Also includes helpful and informative articles.
34. the musings of a modern hygienist: Learn about what it’s like to be a dental hygienist.
35. Medical Assistant Jobs: Get a job in medical assisting. Learn helpful career tips, as well as see job postings.
36. American Dental Hygienists’ Association MySpace Blog: Find out about networking events and receive helpful information on being a hygienist.

Medical Billing, Coding and Transcription

There are jobs in the administrative end of the medical profession. This includes billing clients, doing insurance coding and transcription for doctors. Some of these jobs can even be done from home.

37. Medical Billing Blog: Provides career advice and tips on being successful as a medical biller.
38. Medical Coding and Billing Blog: Information about coding and billing, as well as helpful information on getting started in the business.
39. Your Medical Coding Career: Looks at how you can improve and sell yourself as a medical coder.
40. Medical Transcription Blog: Follow a career path as a medical transcriptionist.
41. Medical-Transcriptionist-Specialist.com: Learn about job openings and helpful tips to help you start a career in medical transcription.

Medical Sales

One career path you can follow in the medical field is to sell supplies and drugs to doctors and hospitals. Provide needed equipment.

42. Specialty Medical Sales Blog: Learn about how to be more successful at medical sales.
43. Medical Sales Recruiter: Find out what hiring managers are looking for in a salesperson.
44. Pharmaceutical Sales Blog: Sell pharma for a learning. Learn what employers are looking for, and improve your technique.
45. CafePharma: Provides insight into the pharmaceutical industry. Aimed at pharma sales professionals.

Student Blogs

Learn from students pursuing various medical careers.

46. Mexico Medical Student Blog: Follow the adventures of a medical student in Mexico.
47. Medical Student Blog: Learn about how to be a better student and about issues facing the health care profession.
48. RNLife.com: This nursing student blog looks at health care issues and addresses better practices.
49. Not Another Nursing Student Blog: Humorous look at what it’s like as a nursing student.
50. Ashley’s USF Blog: A helpful look at what it’s like to be a radiology student.