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HELP FOR COMPUTER NOVICES

Computers

CNET Help.com
(hardware, software, Internet, Web development)

FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
England

Operating Systems
Menu at Yahoo Internet directory

PC Lube and Tune
Yale University
". . . introductions, tutorials, and education on technical subjects [for] the large audience of computer users"

Software
Menu at Yahoo Internet directory

Software Tutorials
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TechEncyclopedia
TechWeb/CMPnet

Whatis?.com
Glossary of computer and Internet terms

Glossaries

Discovery System Online
(includes a networking glossary)
University of Illinois at Chicago

FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
England

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary

Whatis?.com
Glossary of computer and Internet terms

Internet

Ask Dr. Internet

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
University of South Carolina Beaufort Library

Beginner's guides
Yahoo, a popular site for searching the Internet

Creative Good
Has articles such as "How to Change Your Start Page" and "How Do You Turn This Thing On?"

Cyberspace Companion: Introduction to the Virtual Classroom
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discovery System Online
(tutorials about the World Wide Web, e-mail, conferencing, and networking, and a networking glossary)
University of Illinois at Chicago

Dummies eTips
Daily e-mail help on the Internet, the Web, computing basics, and other topics

A Guide to Getting Started on the Internet
Oxford University, England

A Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners
British Medical Journal

ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
Internet Literacy Consultants

Internet for Beginners
About.com

NetGlos: The Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology

The Teachers.Net Website Handbook

WebNovice Online

Webopedia
Dictionary and search engine

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

General

Biomedical Initiative
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Center for Innovative Computer Applications and  The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL)
Indiana University

The Computer Information Centre (CompInfo)
Shropshire, England

Educause
"Transforming Education Through Information Technologies"

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

Nagoya University College of Medical Technology

Nagoya, Japan

National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications
Arlington, Va

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

The Technology Source
(a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical)
University of North Carolina

The Unix Reference Desk
Includes a search facility

whatis.com
Glossary of computer, network, and telecommunication terms

Internet

BioTech: Life Sciences Resources And Reference Tools
Indiana University and University of Texas

Discussions: Newsgroups & Mailing Lists

Internet Public Library
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Internet2 site

The List
Guide to Internet service providers

Netdictionary
from Albion.com San Rafael, CA
("Netdictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical, cultural, and humorous terms related to the Internet.")

Netskills: Network Skills for the UK Higher Education Community
University of Newcastle, England

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists

Symantec AntiVirus Research Center Online Encyclopedia

Telecommunications Virtual Library
Cambridge, England

Usenet Info Center Launch Pad
University of North Carolina

VR MedLab: Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab
University of Illinois at Chicago

MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

Academic Centers

Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Center for Clinical Computing
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Decision Systems Group: Vision and Approach
(a research and development laboratory)
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Eskind Biomedical Library
Informatics Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

Health Informatics World Wide
Department of Medical Informatics, Hospital of the University of Freiburg, Germany

Health Level 7
Ann Arbor, Mich

Health Sciences Center Program in Informatics
State University of New York at Stony Brook

HealthWeb: Health Informatics
Indiana University School of Medicine

ICMIT
International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Imaging Science at RIT
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

Institute for Medical Imaging and Image Analysis
George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science, Washington, DC

International Medical Informatics Association

Jeffline
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa

LRC Division of Applied Medical Informatics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

McGill Medical Informatics Project
 (Computer-Mediated Creation & Management of Curricular Material)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Medical Faculty in Jette
Department of Medical Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Free University), Belgium

Medical Informatics and Medicine
Medical Informatics Group, University of Manchester, England

Medical Statistics Department, Göttingen University, Germany
German and English versions

MEDLINE and MEDLINEplus
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md

Mednet
The Computer Lab of the Medical Faculty, Göteborg University, Sweden

MIDAS: The Medical Informatics and Decision Science Consortium
Medical College of Wisconsin

MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SUMMIT – Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies Group
Stanford, Calif

University of Florida Medical Informatics Server

University of Rochester Division of Medical Informatics

University of Vienna, Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
Vienna, Austria

University of Washington School of Medicine Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Department of Medical Education

Yale Center for Medical Informatics
New Haven, Conn

Other

AHIMA: American Health Information Management Association

AMDIS: Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems

AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association

Evidence-Based Medicine Tool Kit
Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, University of Alberta, Canada

Healthcare Information Systems Directory
Links to vendors of software for hospitals, clinics, and other health care providers

Health Informatics Europe

The Informatics Review
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
RSNA/HIMSS

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise - Europe

International Medical Informatics Association

Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC)

Medical Computing Today

Osiris
("general medical image display and analysis software" for Macintosh, PC, and Unix platforms)

  1. Osiris: ExPASy anonymous FTP server

  2. OSIRIS information
    (Web site)

University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland

SCAR: Society For Computer Applications in Radiology

TINA (Open Source Image Analysis Environment)
University of Manchester, Department of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

WebROC: Your source for Web-based ROC analysis
(". . . allows physicians to easily evaluate their own performance over the Internet.")
Philipps University Marburg Department of Radiology and Johns Hopkins University Department of Radiology

PDAs

Baylor College of MedicineThe Palm/Internet and Miscellany for Baylor College of Medicine Residents
Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty GroupEctopic Brain: Palm OS Handhelds in Clinical Practice
The George Washington University Medical CenterPDA Resources for Health Professionals
pdaMD.comHealthy PalmPilot
Washington UniversityWashington University Medical Palm Initiative

TELEMEDICINE

ACR Standard for Teleradiology
American College of Radiology

American Telemedicine Association

ECU Telemedicine Program
East Carolina University Division of Health Sciences

Funding for Telemedicine Projects
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
Rockville, Md

Osiris

  1. Osiris: ExPASy anonymous FTP server
  2. OSIRIS information (Web site in Switzerland)

University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
("general medical image display and analysis software" for Macintosh, PC, and Unix platforms)

RuralNet: The Marshall University School of Medicine Rural Health Resource
Huntington, West Virginia

TATRC: Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center
U.S. Department of Defense

Telemedicine Center
East Carolina University School of Medicine

Telemedicine Information Exchange
(includes Telemedicine Bibliographic Database and Telemedicine Journals
Telemedicine Research Center, Portland, Oregon

Telemedicine/Rural medicine resources
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa

Telemedicine Today Magazine

Teleradiology System Medicus
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

UC Davis Health System Telemedicine Program
University of California Davis, Sacramento

University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Office of Telemedicine

Virtual Medical Worlds Monthly

WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Design

The Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Cancer Institute

The Scout Toolkit
". . . designed to help new users identify the network tools most appropriate for their needs"

Thoughts on Web Design
U.S. House of Representatives

Usability.gov
National Cancer Institute

Virtual Library of WWW Development
"A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology"

Web Publishing Curriculum Resources
University of Oregon Library System

WebReview
(resources for designers and developers)

Website Guidelines
Syracuse University
". . . the Office of Electronic Media Communications has developed a best practices document to assist schools and colleges with website development. These guidelines . . .are intended to provide website developers with current information on website organization, navigation, layout, graphics, technology, and content. Websites that adhere to these guidelines should be easier to maintain and redesign, and will have a more uniform look across platforms and browsers."

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
Ohio State University, Columbus

Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media

Graphics & Image Processing and Analysis

Greek Letters, Symbols, Subscripts and Superscripts
(GIF files)
University of Massachusetts

ImageJ
(Image Processing and Analysis in Java)
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

ImportAccess
Plug-in for DICOM images

NIH Image
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md
("a public domain image processing and analysis program for the Macintosh")

OSIRIS
("general medical image display and analysis software" for Macintosh, PC, and Unix platforms)
University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland

UPresent
(multimedia presentation and database management tools for the Macintosh)
University of Minnesota

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Composing Good HTML

Guides to HTML: Web Mastery Resource Lists
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

HTML Documentation
University of Sydney, Australia

HTML 4.0 Specification
W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

HTML Code Tutorial

HTML Tutorial
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Introduction to HTML
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
(tutorial)

Introduction to HTML and URLs
University of Toronto, Canada

Web Development

Health Informatics Europe: Open Source Resources
United Kingdom

The Teachers.Net Website Handbook

The Web Worker's Toolbox
Department of English, Bentley College

WHOIS domain name database
Network Solutions

WWW Development Resources
HTML Writers Guild

Web Browsers That You Can Download

Internet Explorer
Microsoft

Mozilla
Mozilla.org

Netscape versions
Netscape Communications

Opera

WWW in General

The Fifteen comp.infosystems.www.* Subgroups

Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC)

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary

W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium

World Wide Web FAQ
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

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