American Board of Medical Specialists
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is the umbrella organization for the 24 approved medical specialty boards in the United States. Established in 1933, the ABMS serves to coordinate the activities of its Member Boards and to provide information to the public, the government, the profession and its Members concerning issues involving specialization and certification in medicine. Requires free registration to utilize site features. Their Who's Certified? allows you to verify the board certification status of any physician.
Provides data for over 6,000 hospitals.The Free Search, available to non-subscribers, will locate Name and address, telephone, Medicare provider number, total staffed beds, hospital type, services provided and link to the hospital's web site. (detailed information is available to subscribers only).
HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization, today identified America’s 50 Best Hospitals, an elite class of top-performing facilities. The HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospital designation represents the healthcare industry’s only quality ranking based solely on objective clinical outcomes among U.S. hospitals.
America's Best Hospitals (U.S. News & World Report)
"Let’s take care of the patient." That must be the credo of hospitals that make U.S. News’ "Best Hospitals" rankings, in which hospitals are judged not in routine procedures but in difficult cases across an entire specialty. In the nineteenth year of this annual review, hospitals are ranked in 16 specialties, from cancer and heart disease to respiratory disorders and urology. Out of the 5,453 hospitals put through a rigorous statistical mill, only 170 scored high enough to appear in any of the specialty rankings.
America's Best Children's Hospitals<
This U.S. News &' World Report ranks children's hospitals in the U.S. with respect to various health conditions. View lists of hospitals for general pediatrics, cancer, digestive disorders, heart and heart surgery, neonatal care, neurology and neurosurgery, and respiratory disorders. Includes a description of methodology, glossary of terms used in the evaluation process, and links to related material.
America's Best Health Plans (U.S. News & World Report)
Healthcare costs continue to rise, and most employees are getting no healthier. Employers are beginning to introduce wellness programs with teeth, rather than those that offer small perks like discounted gym memberships.
The American Medical Association provides information on nearly 700,000 practitioners with the degrees of MD and DO. It will be necessary to click on the I Accept icon before searching by physician or medical specialty.
Compare Hospitals in SE Michigan
The Greater Detroit Area Health Council has teamed up with WebMD to provide a 7-county Health Care Performance Report version similar to Medscape/WebMD's other national tools and the CMS Hospital Compare tool. Covers heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical infection prevention, Medicare mortality (survival rate) for heart attack, CABG and PCI, some safety measures, and volume. Details are provided when you click on the hospital's name and scroll for full report.
Comprehensive national directory of practitioners, searchable by state/city or specialty. Includes Top Doctors and directories of hospitals and health plans.
This Web site is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organization representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.
Federation Physician Data Center (FPDC)
The Federation Physician Data Center is a central repository for formal actions taken against physicians by state licensing and disciplinary boards, Canadian licensing authorities, the U.S. armed forces, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other national and international regulatory bodies. The Federation Physician Data Center offers two services used in performing credentialing functions or pre-employment background checks: the Board Action Data Search and the Disciplinary Alert Service. Both of these services are considered primary source equivalent by NCQA and JCAHO.
The Federation Physician Data Center contains more than 156,000 board actions related to approximately 46,000 physicians dating to the 1960s. This information is available to licensing and disciplinary boards, the military, governmental and private agencies and organizations involved in the employment and/or credentialing of physicians.
Performance ratings of thousands of hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice programs and fertility clinics based on Medicare data.
Rate a physician, find a physician or dentist, compare insurance plans, and explore health care options.
Hospital Compare—"Information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public."
Hour Detroit's Top Doctors
Metro Detroit's Top Doctors list appear in the September issue of Hour Detroit Magazine. The list is excerpted from The Best Doctors in America database, which includes approximately 30,000 doctors in more than 40 medical specialties.
Michigan Go Local: Your Link to Health Care in Michigan
Michigan Go Local is a joint project of the National Library of Medicine and the Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Michigan Go Local is a directory of healthcare services and providers that serve the residents of Michigan. This resource will help you:
Michigan Go Local currently has information on more than 6600 healthcare services and providers in the state of Michigan. The directory is growing daily. Michigan Go Local is created and maintained by professional medical librarians. The services and providers included in this directory are carefully selected using specific guidelines including:
From a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Activities include: investigating questionable claims, answering inquiries about products and services, distributing reliable publications, reporting illegal marketing, assisting or generating. consumer-protection lawsuits, improving the quality of health information on the Internet and attacking misleading advertising on the Internet.
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