Resources for CME Needs Assessments
●CHS Library Intranet page http://chsweb.carilion.com/hr/hsl.htm
●Carilion Health System Intranet – Organizational Effectiveness website
From here go to: Quality Data/Clinical Outcome/Clinical Outcome Report
chsweb.carilion.com/clineff/Quality/CMCClinicalOutcome
●Healthy People 2010:
Healthy People 2010 is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most
significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
www.healthypeople.gov
●Healthy People 2010 - Leading Health Indicators: www.healthypeople.gov/LHI/lhiwhat.htm
●Virginia Atlas of Community Health: http://67.92.69.86/
●Virginia Department of Health (VDH): www.vdh.state.va.us
●VDH – Local Health Districts: www.vdh.state.va.us/LHD/LocalHealthDistricts.asp
●Virginia Center for Healthy Communities:
The Virginia Center for Healthy Communities is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to
improving the health of Virginia's communities.
www.vahealthycommunities.com
●VA Center for Healthy Communities -Assessing Community Health Needs:
www.vahealthycommunities.com
Other Resources:
●Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (www.ahrq.gov)
●AHRQ Quality Measures (www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov)
●Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - M&M Review (www.webmm.ahrq.gov)
●American Health Quality Association (www.ahqa.org)
●Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) – www.dhhs.gov
●Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (www.cdc.gov)
●Health Resources and Services Administration – HRSA) www.hrsa.gov
●Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (www.icsi.org)
●Institute of Medicine: Healthcare & Quality (www.iom.edu)
●Leapfrog Group (www.leapfroggroup.org)
●Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org/ihi)
●UpToDate – (www.uptodate.com)
●Medscape – (www.medscape.com) (requires signup – free – username & password)
●National Library of Medicine (http://catalyst.cit.nih.gov)
●Clinical Trials – (www.clinicaltrials.gov/)
●American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp)
●American College of Surgeons (http://www.facs.org/index.html)
●The National Women’s Health Information Center – US Dept of Health and Human ●Services Office of
Women’s Health http://www.4woman.gov/index.htm
●EBSCOhost links to MEDLINE, CINAHL and Cochrane Library - http://search.epnet.com
●PubMed links to MEDLINE http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
●Health Finder – A service of the national health information Center, US Dept of Health & Human Services
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
●World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/en/
●JCAHO website (www.jcaho.org) has information on hospital accreditation findings from recent surveys, and
you can search for your institution by zip code or name.
●MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together
authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and
health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy
access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated
medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. http://medlineplus.gov/