The Multimedia Technology Health Communication SBIR/STTR Program

Technical and Educational Resources

The following links provide you with current information about health communication and ehealth, resources to use during your project, and contacts for potential collaborators, purchasers and distributors for your final products.

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Business Websites

• Minority Enterprise Development Hotlist – US Small Business Administration:
  http://www.sba.gov/hotlist/minor.html



• New York Stock Market:
  http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/ idUSWEB667220070821



• News
  • Asian Business News:
    http://www.abnusa.biz/
  • Black Enterprise Online:
    http://www.blackenterprise.com/
  • Commerce Business Daily:
    www.sbaonline.sba.gov/hotlist/cbd.html
  • Federal Register:
    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/grants.html
  • Forbes.com:
    http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
  • Fortune 500:
    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007
  • Government Computer News:
    http://www.gcn.com/
  • Hispanic Business.com:
    http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/
  • Inc. Magazine:
    http://www.inc.com
  • Minority Business Entrepreneur Magazine:
    http://www.mbemag.com
  • Wall Street Journal – Business and Finance:
    http://online.wsj.com/public/us
  • Washington Business Journal:
    http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/event/2387


• Small Business Associations
  • American Business Women’s Association:
    http://www.abwa.org/
  • Asian American Business Association:
    http://www.usclub.com/aaba.html
  • Black Business and Professional Organization:
    http://www.bbpa.org/
  • Business & Technology:
    http://www.brint.com/Business.htm
  • Latin Business Association:
    http://www.lbausa.com/
  • National Association of Women Business Owners – listing by states:
    http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=-+National+Association+of+Women+Business+Owners&FORM=SSRE2
  • Native American Indian Associations, Organizations & Clubs: http://www.crazycrow.com/links_nativeam/associations.php
  • 50 State homepages:
    http://www.statelocalgov.net/50states-homepages.cfm
  • US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce – list by states:
    http://search.live.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=-US+Hispanic+Chamber+of+Commerce
  • Women Business Development Center:
    http://www.wbdc.org/default_Flash.asp


• Small Business Investment Companies and Financing
  • Current Venture Capital Directory:
    http://www.capitalvector.com/capfinder.html
  • GOBIG Network:
    http://www.gobignetwork.com/small-business-funding/
  • Private Investors Forum:
    http://www.privateinvestorsforum.com/
  • Venture Capital Institute:
    http://www.vcinstitute.org/
  • Venture Capital Resources:
    http://www.mycapital.com/


• Top Selling Health Technology Products
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=top+selling+health+
  technology+products

Cancer Information

• Breast Cancer Net: A clearinghouse for the latest news and information on the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer:
  http://www.breastcancer.net/
• Cancer.gov: recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute, NIH:
  http://cancer.gov
• Medical Information, Information Technology & Healthcare Resource:
  http://www.brint.com/Medicine.htm
• NCI’s Cancer Information Service: 1-800-4-CANCER
• NCI Research Resources:
  http://cancer.gov/resources

Cancer Networks and Support Systems

• A Cancer Network:
  http://www.cancernetwork.com
• Community Care Network:
  http://www.comcarenetwork.org/content.php?id=2
• Digital Divide Network:
  http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
• Friends — you can count on:
  http://www.commonboundaries.com/profile_friends.html
• Information Networking for Oncologists – Health and Medical Directory:
  http://www.medmark.org
• iVillage – Health & Well Being:
  http://health.ivillage.com/
• Journey of Hearts: a web site for loss ones:
  http://www.journeyofhearts.org/
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network for Professional:
  http://www.nccn.org
• NCI Cancer Centers:
  http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/cancer_centers/cancer-centers-names.html
• The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, Research Consortium (CHESS):
  http://www.psycho-oncology.net/forum/CHESS.html

Cancer Organizations and Centers

• American Cancer Society:
  http://www.cancer.org/
• American Institute for Cancer Research:
  http://www.aicr.org/
• American Prostate Society:
  http://www.americanprostatesociety.com/
• American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO):
  http://www.astro.org/
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO):
  http://www.asco.org/portal/site/ASCO
• ASCO People Living with Cancer site:
  http://www.asco.org/portal/site/PLWC/
• Association of Community Cancer Centers:
  http://www.accc-cancer.org/default.asp
• Association of Pediatric Oncology Nursing:
  http://www.apon.org/
• Breast Cancer.org:
  http://www.breastcancer.org/
• CancerCare:
  www.cancercare.org
• Cancer Centers List:
  http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/cancer_centers/cancer-centers-names.html
  List of NCI-designated cancer centers and comprehensive cancer centers. The Cancer Centers Program of the NCI supports major academic and research institutions throughout the United States to sustain broad-based, coordinated, interdisciplinary programs in cancer research.
• Cancer Treatment Centers of America:
  http://www.cancercenter.com
• Childhood Cancer Centers:
  http://www.patientcenters.com/childcancer/news/interview.html
• Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy:
  http://www.childrenscause.org/
• CureSearch- National Childhood Cancer Foundation:
  www.curesearch.org
• Genetic Alliance:
  http://www.geneticalliance.org/
• Gynecologic Cancer Foundation:
  http://www.thegcf.org/whatsnew/default.htm
• Helping Children with Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute:
  http://www.jimmyfund.org/
• Intercultural Cancer Council:
  http://iccnetwork.org/
• International Agency for Research on Cancer:
  http://www.iarc.fr/
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society:
  http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
• Living Beyond Breast Cancer:
  www.lbbc.org
• National Cancer Institute:
  http://www.nci.nih.gov
• NCI/DCCPS Office of Cancer Survivorship:
  http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/ocs
• Padres Contra El Cancer (Parents Against Cancer):
  http://iamhope.org/index.php
• PanCAN – Pancreatic Cancer Network:
  http://www.pancan.org/
• Race for the Cure:
  http://cms.komen.org/komen/index.htm
• Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO):
  http://www.sgo.org/
• The Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation:
  http://www.candlelighters.org/
• The National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations:
  http://www.nabco.org/
• The National Breast Cancer Coalition:
  www.natlbcc.org
• The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation:
  www.komen.org
• University of Florida: Pediatric Oncology Group:
  http://www.med.ufl.edu/hem-onc
• Women’s Cancer Network:
  http://www.wcn.org/
• Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization:
  http://www.networkofstrength.org/

Cancer Prevention and Control

• Cancer.gov: Prevention, screening, and treatment information:
  http://cancer.gov

Clinical Trials

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG):
  http://ecog.dfci.harvard.edu/general/intro.html
• NCI Cancer Trials:
  http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/

Communication Issues

• Assessment Tools for Risk and other:
  http://cygnus-group.com/CIDM/assess.html
• Center for Disease Control: Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006 – 2015:
  http://www.cdc.gov/od/science/phresearch/cdcra/
• Collaborative Learning:
  http://social.landcareresearch.co.nz/
• Games for Health:
  http://www.gamesforhealth.org/archives/000211.html
• Handbook of Medical Informatics:
  http://www.mieur.nl/mihandbook/r_3_2/handbook/homepage_self.htm
• Hospitals and Effective Communication (DHHS):
  http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/resources/specialtopics/hospitalcommunication/
• Medical Informatics and Decision Making:
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/2
• Online Education: What Can It Deliver?:
  http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/onlineeducation
• Prevention Institute: Putting prevention at the center of community well being:
  http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools.html
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Covering Kids.Communications Kit Reaching American Indian and Alaska Native Families:
  http://www.idph.state.ia.us/coveringkids/common/pdf/ai_akn_healthissues.pdf
• The Provider’s Guide to Quality and Culture:
  http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=9.1g.htm&module=provider&language=English

Communication & Media Organizations

• American Academy of Family Physician’s Health Informatics Technology:
  http://www.centerforhit.org/
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Clinical Information Technology (COCIT):
  www.aapcocit.org
• American College of Physicians (ACP) Computers in Medicine: Computers in Medicine:
  http://www.acponline.org/computer/cim.htm
• American Communication Association:
  http://www.americancomm.org/
• American Health Information Community (AHIC):
  http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/background/
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA):
  www.ahima.org
• American Medical Informatics Association:
  http://www.amia.org/
• American Medical Writers Association:
  http://www.amwa.org/default.asp?id=1
• American Telemedicine Association (ATA):
  http://atmeda.org/
• Asian Community in the USA:
  http://www.allied-media.com/southasian/zeetv.html
• Association for Business Communication:
  http://www.businesscommunication.org/index.asp
• Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication:
  http://www.aejmc.org/_about/
• Association for Educational Communication and Technology:
  http://www.aect.org/default.asp
• Association of Health Care Journalists:
  http://www.healthjournalism.org/
• Black Entertainment Television LLC:
  http://www.bet.com
• Broadcast Education Association:
  http://www.beaweb.org/
• Center for Health Transformation:
  http://www.healthtransformation.net
• Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL): The Center for Information Therapy (CIT):
  http://www.informationtherapy.org/
• Coalition for Health Communication:
  http://www.healthcommunication.net/
• Computers and Communication Organizations:
  http://www.webstart.com/cc/orgs.html
• eHealth Initiative:
  www.ehealthinitiative.org
• eHealth Institute:
  http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/summit/index.aspx
• Electronic Health Record Vendors (EHRVA):
  http://www.himssehrva.org/ASP/index.asp
• Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, National Cancer Institute:
  http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/hcirb/
• Health Communications Internship Program at the National Cancer Institute:
  http://internship.cancer.gov/
• Health e-Technologies Initiative:
  www.hetinitiative.org
• Health and Science Communication Association (HESCA):
  http://www.hesca.org/
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS):
  www.himss.org
• Institute for Healthcare Communication:
  http://www.healthcarecomm.org/index.php?sec=courses&sub=faculty&course=0
• International Communication Association:
  http://www.icahdq.org/
• Hispanic Online:
  http://www.hispaniconline.com/
• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE):
  www.ihe.net
• International Communication Association:
  http://www.icahdq.org/
• Markle Foundation:
  www.markle.org
• Medical Education Technologies:
  http://www.meti.com
• Medical Records Institute (MRI):
  http://www.medrecinst.com/
• National Association of Broadcasters:
  http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
• National Association of Medical Communicators:
  http://www.namc.info
• National Communication Association:
  http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?sid=9
• National Center for Health Marketing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
  http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/
• National Health Information Center:
  http://www.health.gov/NHIC
• Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institutes of Health:
  http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl
• Office of Educational Government Technology:
  http://www.ed.gov/technology
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC):
  http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/
• Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT):
  http://www.salt.org
• TELEMUNDO: Hispanic American TV:
  http://www.telemundoboston.com/Advantages.html
• The Center for Connected Health:
  http://www.connected-health.org/
• The International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII):
  http://www.isrii.org/
• Vietnamese American TV:
  http://www.mhznetworks.org/programming/shows/286

Education Organizations

• Academy for Educational Development:
  http://www.aed.org/
• Accenthealth.com: Extensive health database, plus regularly updated features, news stories and interactive tools on health topics; authoritative, practical information designed to help people live healthier lives:
  http://www.accenthealth.com/
• American Health Education Association:
  http://healthbehavior.com/AHEA.html
• American School Health Association:
  http://www.ashaweb.org/
• Association of Schools of Public Health:
  http://www.asph.org/
• National Center for Health Education:
  http://www.nche.org/growinghealthy.htm
• Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE):
  http://www.sophe.org/
• Top Health Sites For Health Educators
  • Kids Health - Nemours Foundation:
    http://kidshealth.org/
  • Merck Manual of Medical Information:
    http://www.merckhomeedition.com/
  • NCI's Understanding Cancer Series:
    http://rex.nci.nih.gov/behindthenews/uc/ucframe.htm
  • Quackwatch: Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions:
    http://www.quackwatch.com/
  • The Longevity Game:
    http://www.northwesternmutual.com/games/longevity/

Health and Medical Organizations

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research:
  http://www.ahrq.gov/
• American Academy of Family Physicians:
  http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home.html
• American Academy of Pediatrics:
  http://www.aap.org/
• American College of Preventive Medicine:
  http://www.acpm.org/
• American Council on Science and Health:
  http://www.acsh.org/
• American Dietetic Association:
  http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/index.html
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA):
  http://www.ahima.org/
• American Holistic Nurses Association:
  http://ahna.org/
• American Medical Association:
  http://www.ama-assn.org/
• American Medical Student Association & Foundation:
  http://www.amsa.org/
• American Nurses Association:
  http://nursingworld.org/
• American Psychological Association (APA):
  http://www.apa.org/
• American Public Health Association:
  http://www.apha.org/
• Community Health Network: leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance:
  http://www.ecommunity.com/
• Complementary Medicine Approaches:
  http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/Alternative/
• Disease Management Association of America (DMAA):
  http://www.dmaa.org/
• Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved Communities:
  http://www.meharry.org/Fl/index.html
• Florida Association of Community Health Centers:
  http://www.fachc.org/
• Health Medicine Forum:
  http://www.healthmedicine.org
• Health On the Net Foundation: Non-commercial overview of health resources:
  http://www.hon.ch/; the (HON) Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web sites:
  http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct475671
• Institute for Community Research - Research Partnerships for Healthy Communities:
  http://www.incommunityresearch.org/about/about.htm
• Irvine Health Foundation:
  http://www.ihf.org/
• Koop Institute at Dartmouth:
  http://dms.dartmouth.edu/koop/
• Leadership for Healthy Communities:
  http://www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/
• National Academy of Sciences:
  http://www.nas.edu/nrc/
• National Black Nurses Association, Inc.:
  http://www.nbna.org/
• National Hispanic Medical Association:
  http://www.hispanichealth.info/
• National Hospice & Palliative Care:
  http://www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm
• National Institutes of Health:
  http://www.nih.gov/
• National Library of Medicine:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Wellness Institute:
  http://www.nationalwellness.org/
• National Women's Health Resource Center:
  www.healthywomen.org
• Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health:
  http://orwh.od.nih.gov/
• Prevention Institute:
  http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools.html
• Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM):
  http://www.sbm.org/
• The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), NIH:
  http://obssr.od.nih.gov/index.aspx
• The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), HHS:
  http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/

On-line Journals

• American Communication Journal:
  http://acjournal.org/
• American Journal of Health Promotion:
  http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine:
  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600644/description
• Annals of Behavioral Medicine:
  http://www.trdrp.org/fundedresearch/Views/Periodical_Page.asp?periodical_id=79
• Cases in Public Health Communication & Marketing:
  http://www.casesjournal.org
• Cyberpsychology and Behavior:
  http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=10
• Communications in Information Literacy:
  http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/issue/view/Spring2007/showToc
• Health Education & Behavior:
  http://heb.sagepub.com/
• Implementation Science:
  http://www.implementationscience.com/home/
• International Journal of Electronic Healthcare:
  http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=113
• International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics:
  http://www.igi-pub.com/journals/details.asp?id=4835
• International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications:
  http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijta/
• JAMIA:
  http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=11687567
• Journal of American College Health:
  http://www.heldref.org/jach.php
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464
• Journal of Community Health:
  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2911
• Journal of Computers in Human Behavior:
  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/759/description
• Journal of Health Communication:
  http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ecih/journal/
• Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice:
  http://chdr.unlv.edu/JHDRP%201_1.pdf
• Journal of Medical Internet Research:
  http://www.jmir.org/
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association:
  http://www.jamia.org/
• Journal of the American Telemedicine Association:
  http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=54
• Journal of the National Cancer Institute:
  http://jncicancerspectrum.oxfordjournals.org
• Journal of Public Health Management & Practice:
  http://www.pohly.com/mags/journalpublic.html
• Journal of Public Health Policy:
  http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/index.html
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine:
  http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/
• Publications on MEDSCAPE:
  http://www.medscape.com/pages/public/publications
• Sage publications:
  http://www.sagepublications.com/
• The American Journal of Preventive Medicine:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07493797
• The Electronic Journal of Communication:
  http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm
• The International Electronic Journal of Health Education:
  http://www.aahperd.org/iejhe/
• The Journal of Nutrition:
  http://www.nutrition.org/
• The Journal of Primary Prevention:
  http://www.springerlink.com/content/105378/
• The New England Journal of Medicine:
  http://content.nejm.org/

Search Engines

• American Medical Association:
  http://www.ama-assn.org
• Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC):
  http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/
• BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making:
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/2
• Cancer Site Finder:
  http://cancerSiteFinder.com – funded by this SBIR Program
• Healia:
  http://www.healia.com/healia/ – funded by this SBIR Program
• HealthAtoZ:
  http://www.HealthAtoZ.com
• HealthFinder.gov:
  http://www.healthfinder.gov/
• Healthwise:
  http://www.healthwise.org
• MedicineNet:
  http://www.medicinenet.com
• MEDLINEplus:
  http://medlineplus.gov/
• PubMed:
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
• WebMD: Comprehensive health resources for consumers, physicians, nurses, and educators. Includes news, chat forums, health quizzes and consumer product updates:
  http://www.webmd.com/

Webinars

• Strategic Leadership for the Healthcare Industry:
  http://www.worldcongress.com/webinars/