ASSOCIATIONS

• Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT)

EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF)
• Connecting for Health (Markle Group Foundation)
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement 100K Lives Campaign: Some is Not a Number.  Soon is Not a Time.
• Scottsdale Institute

RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS

• Center for Information Technology Research (CITL)
• Forrester Research - has a healthcare research group
• Gartner Research - has a healthcare research group
• Harris Interactive - has a healthcare industry group
• Health Care Technology Project - research and publications, from Cap Gemini
• Manhattan Research - focus on healthcare
• IT Pew Internet Project - has numerous studies on Healthcare and the Internet

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS, and LEGISLATION

• Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT)
• Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
• The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE  ("You get what you pay for, and we ought to be paying for better quality." - Mark B. McClellan, Head of Medicare and Medicaid.  NY TIMES,  February 22, 2006)

• Bridges to Excellence (Outpatient focus)
• Leapfrog Group
• Pay for Performance in California

INFORMATICS TRAINING PROGRAMS

• AMIA List of Academic and Training Programs (includes standards and tele-learning)
• NLM Informatics Training Programs (programs funded by the NLM)