Entrepreneurship Resources: Health Futures
Articles
As a way of getting started, it may be helpful to search on the broad channel categories in article databases.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
Healthcare Industry
- Health LiteracyFrom the CDC, this site, is "for health communicators, public health professionals, and community leaders who seek information and tools on health literacy research, practice, and evaluation."
- AHRQ Health LiteracyThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's site on health literacy. Includes toolkits and more and is designed for healthcare professionals.
- HRSA Office for the Advancement of Telehealth"improves access to quality health care through integrated telehealth services. Our programs support direct services, research, and technical assistance."
- CAHPS: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems"The purpose of AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is to advance our scientific understanding of patient experience with health care."
Healthy Hospitals
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system."
- Fast Facts on U.S. HospitalsGeneral statistics from the American Hospital Association's annual survey of U.S. Hospitals
- FastStats - Hospital UtilizationStatistics relating to U.S. hospital utilization from the National Center for Health Statistics
- FastStats - Ambulatory Care Use and Physician office visitsStatistics from the National Center for Health Statistics for U.S. physician office visits
- Kaiser Family Foundation - Providers & Service Use"Data on health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, and rural health centers, and the health care workforce, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists. Data on access to care and health professional shortage areas are also included in this category."
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology
"The two most frequently used terms today are assistive technology and rehabilitation engineering. Although they are used somewhat interchangeably, they are not identical. “Rehabilitation engineering is the application of science and technology to ameliorate the handicaps of individuals with disabilities”. In contrast, assistive technology can be viewed as a product of rehabilitation engineering activities. Such a relationship is analogous to health care being the product of the practice of medicine. Furthermore, the major activities in rehabilitation engineering can be categorized in many ways. Perhaps the simplest way to grasp its breadth and depth is to categorize the main types of assistive technology that rehabilitation engineering has produced. The development of these technological products required the contributions of mechanical, material, and electrical engineers, orthopedic surgeons, prosthetists and orthotists, allied health professionals, and computer professionals. The chapter illustrates some of the assistive technologies currently available."
(Summary of book chapter)
Szeto, A. (2005). 5 - REHABILITATION ENGINEERING AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY. In J. D. Enderle, S. M. Blanchard, & J. D. Bronzino (Eds.), Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (Second Edition) (pp. 211-254). Academic Press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-238662-6.50007-0
Resources linked below can be useful for research related to rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowThe combined Compendex, Inspec, and GeoRef databases.More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowOne-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- RESNA Assistive Technology StandardsThe RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) Assistive Technology Standards Board (ATSB) coordinates the development of voluntary consensus standards in the United States and represents the needs and views of U.S. stakeholders in international standardization forum.
- RESNA ResourcesRESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) provides many additional resources to interested parties including research guidelines and position papers that are available via this link.
Aging-related Advancements
- National Institute on AgingA user-friendly page that covers a wide range of topics related to aging.
- Administration on AgingInformation about health legislation affecting older Americans and their caregivers, as well as programs and services.
- Healthy AgingReports, data, and statistics for CDC's Healthy Aging Program and The Healthy Brain Initiative to promote independence and wellbeing.
- FastStats - Older Persons' HealthNational statistics on senior health