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A portal directed at consumers of medicine and health care, this website also has CMEs, references, and databases that any health care provider or medical professional would find useful.

A resource largely for patients and non-professional consumers of medicine and health care, created by the Mayo Clinic as an educational tool to help facilitate delivery of better, more efficient medicine to informed, participatory clients.

Abstract: A new class of patient-driven health care services is emerging to supplement and extend traditional health care delivery models and empower patient self-care. Patient-driven health care can be characterized as having an increased level of information flow, transparency, customization, collaboration and patient choice and responsibility-taking, as well as quantitative, predictive and preventive aspects. The potential exists to both improve traditional health care systems and expand the concept of health care though new services. This paper examines three categories of novel health services: health social networks, consumer personalized medicine and quantified self-tracking.

David Rothman, academic/medical librarian, created this comprehensive search tool for nonprofessional medical researchers with Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE).

For medical professionals, health care providers, industry leaders, medical students, professional and non-professional researchers, academic and medical librarians, patients, healthcare consumers, and physicians looking for CMEs and conference recaps.

Access research studies, publications, conference proceedings, reference materials, databases, tools, and other resources of interest to medical researchers, health care providers, patients, consumers, citizens, and policymakers.

Americans conduct their own online medical information research--many as a short-term replacement for visits to providers. Is this a sign of the new peer-to-peer, participatory healthcare?