Health Information Websites You Can Trust

From the 2008 CAPHIS Top 100 List

Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna Intelihealth partners with Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine to provide health information on this website. It is content rich on disease and treatment information and includes additional features such as its Interactive health Tools, Ask the Expert, Personalized Health E-mail service, and Discussion Boards.

The Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center
Produced by the Cleveland Clinic Department of Patient Education and Health Information, this site offers information on over 900 health topics. Podcasts and webcasts of health information are available along with transcripts of web chats with physicians answering health questions.

Familydoctor.org
This web site offers clear and concise patient hand-outs for common medical concerns and conditions. All information has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians. Other helpful features are a medical dictionary, health calculators, the Healthy Living Guides, a Smart Patient Guide, Health Tools section and a Health Tip of the Day.

Healthfinder
Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, healthfinder links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations. There's a wonderful children's interface with age-appropriate health information and much of the web site's information is available in Spanish.

Mayo Clinic
MayoClinic.com offers a wealth of easy-to-understand health and medical information. In addition to diseases and conditions, the site has a number of healthy living guides and helpful resources such as Health Tools, Treatment Decision Guides, blogs and pod casts, and Ask a Specialist feature.

Medem
This website has patient information provided by major medical societies. A full range of patient information from simple health information to advanced resources is provided with a complexity indicator to guide your choice.

MedicineNet.com
MedicineNet.com is owned and operated by WebMD and is part of the WebMD Network. The web site provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers through its user-friendly, interactive web site. The content is produced and edited by a nationally recognized network of over 70 U.S. Board Certified Physicians.

MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus offers over 18,000 links to accurate and current medical information on the Internet that has been evaluated by the National Library of Medicine. It includes drug information, an illustrated medical dictionary, the latest health news, directories of doctors, dentists and hospitals, surgery videos, and interactive health tutorials. A handy toggle feature translates the site into Spanish with links to Spanish-language information on the Internet.

NetWellness
NetWellness, a non-profit consumer health web site, has been in operation for over ten years. It provides over 55,000 pages of high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and the Ohio State University. Its Ask An Expert feature is a question and answer service provided by numerous health care professionals of the three universities, who volunteer their time as a community service.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Bi-lingual in Spanish and English, NOAH provides links to high quality consumer health information that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. Arranged both alphabetically and by body site, it includes a search feature to guide you to a specific topic.

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