As a member of the online web development community, MedForward supports a number of organizations and websites that
benefit the community and provide helpful resources to those who need them. Below is a list of a number of these organizations
and links to their sites.
Google Adwords: Google provides a great online marketing option in Google Adwords, which lets users pay for sponsored
ads that will appear alongside of traditional search results.
Google Analytics: Google provides a great web analysis and statistics program in Google Analytics, which lets users
view in depth statistics about the traffic coming to their site. It is a free tool, and very powerful for analyzing how well a web site
is doing.
Medical Economics:
In 1923, Medical Economics magazine was created to help busy physicians cope with the business side
of medicine, the nonclinical problems associated with running a private, office-based
practice. Today, Medical Economics continues to live up to that challenge, and to
its responsibility as the best-read journal in the physician marketplace: informing,
educating, and assisting busy primary-care doctors.
Journal of Healthcare
Information Management: According to their website, "JHIM is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal
edited specifically for healthcare information and management systems professionals.
Each issue of JHIM examines a specific topic in the areas of clinical systems, information
systems, management engineering and telecommunications in healthcare organizations."
Medical Library Association:
This guide outlines the collective wisdom of medical librarians who surf the web
every day to discover quality information in support of clinical and scientific
decision making by doctors, scientists, and other health practitioners responsible
for the nation's health. This guide is supported by the Medical Library Association
(MLA), the library organization whose primary purpose is promoting quality information
for improved health and whose members were the first to realize that not all health
information on the web is credible, timely, or safe.
Greater Baltimore Technology Council:
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council is devoted to one goal: building and growing
the region's tech community. The GTBC asks tech companies what they need to grow and provides
it through innovative programs.
Emerging Technology Center:
The ETC, a venture of Baltimore Development Corporation, is a non-profit business
incubator program with two separate incubator facilities, focused on growing early-stage
technology and biotechnology companies in Baltimore City.
Health on the Net Foundation:
Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the
deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its
appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental
organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.