UMass HealthNet

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Overview of Project

UMass HealthNet is an outreach initiative administered by the Lamar Soutter Library of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). The project establishes a vehicle for reliable consumer health information geared towards Massachusetts residents. The project also addresses the need for connectivity for UMMS faculty and students at off-campus teaching locations. 

The website provides original information as well as links to critically evaluated resources geared for patients and offer information on health care services in the central and western Massachusetts regions.  The website is designed to emphasize locally produced information on pertinent health topics. Experts in the UMMS and its clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care develop topic areas. Local health associations and agencies also contribute material to the site. The website serves as a clearinghouse for information about local agencies, and health services corporations. The website links to other health information resources of national repute.

HealthNet objectives are borne out of a desire to expand much-needed access to health information to consumers, physicians, health professionals, and students.  HealthNet responds to the need for evaluated health information resources made available through the latest technologies.

HealthNet Core Values

• Reliable information on health topics
• Partnership with local resources
• Centralized maintenance of website, uniform look and feel
• Decentralized production of content by contributors
• Serve the Massachusetts community of patients, physicians, health professionals
• Serve areas without previous access to health information resources

HealthNet's mission is to provide reliable information on health topics for the central and western Massachusetts community. HealthNet strives to guide consumers through myriad health information resources by featuring reliable information produced in partnership with local experts and serving as a central point for disseminating other health information resources.

• Develop health information content geared for consumers by combining resources of local health agencies
• Serve as a link for local health agency information to the central and western Massachusetts community
• Educate the central and western Massachusetts community on access and evaluation of health information resources
• Provide access to health information to patients, physicians and health professional via technology outreach

Primary Agencies/Sponsor

HealthNet is a project developed by the Lamar Soutter Library of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in collaboration with UMass Memorial Health Care and is supported by a grant from The William Randolph Hearst Foundations.

© 1998-1999 The Lamar Soutter Library,
UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655 USA

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