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Healthcare

The healthcare industry depends on an infrastructure of suppliers, distributors and management services.

Sites listed here will represent companies which provide products or services to the professional healthcare industry.

Sites concerning the actual provision of healthcare to consumers belong in the appropriate subcategory of Health.

Please check the subcategories here to find the most specific location for your submission, as this will minimize the delay in listing it. You can also speed the listing process by following the general guidelines to be found here.

Alternative

Please include the following information in your submission:
* Name of business
* Brief description of the main services and products offered
* Location

Consumer products should be submitted to the appropriate category in Shopping/Health/Alternative

Animal Health

The animal health industry involves professionals such as veterinarians, technicians, nutritionists, and livestock producers.

This category is for companies that supply the animal health industry with goods and services.

If your site is mainly concerned with online selling to pet owners, it belongs in Shopping, and purely informational sites are listed in the appropriate category in Animal Health.

To minimise the delay in listing your site, please submit to the appropriate subcategory, and follow these guidelines.

Case Management

Case management involves a coordinated approach to improving the quality of health care delivery across all sectors.

This category will list sites relating to professional societies, conferences, case management consultants, and care providers, whether they concern healthcare or social work.

To minimise the delay in listing your site, please submit to the appropriate subcategory, and follow these guidelines.

Computing

The healthcare industry is becoming increasingly reliant on information technology and computers to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Sites listed here will concern the provision of computer services to healthcare facilities and professionals.

To minimise the delay in listing your site, please submit to the appropriate subcategory, and follow these guidelines.

Consulting

Healthcare consultants provide advice and/or assistance to healthcare providers and staff in the establishment, management or improvement of their services.

Please do not submit directly to this category. Find the alphabetical subcategory matching the first letter of your site title and submit there instead.

There is a different category in Healthcare for Computing Consultants

To minimise the delay in listing your site, please submit to the appropriate subcategory, and follow these guidelines.

Directories

Business Directories Compilation of medical websites containing indexes or lists of companies and company related information. Users should be able to visit the listed directories and obtain information pertaining to multiple businesses and business related categories.

Please, make sure to submit only directories that are useful for the healthcare industry.

Suppliers should submit their website to the appropriate category in Business/Industries/Healthcare/Products and Services/Suppliers.

Economics

Economics has been described as " the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management" ( http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ ). In this case the "goods and services" are those of healthcare.

Sites listed here will focus on topics such as health system cost-effectiveness, value in medicine, political aspects of finance and the analysis of healthcare data.

If your site concerns primarily the academic, informational or research aspects of economics, please submit it here instead.

Employment

For sites covering more than one profession or field.

Please use the specific categories if the site has a focus on one profession or field, such as dentistry, nursing etc.

Healthcare Management

Management theory is now applied to most aspects of industry with the aim of improving productivity and efficiency.

Sites listed here will concern

information about the application of management theory to the healthcare industry, and/or
practitioners or consultants and/or
specific management guidelines.

Marketing and Advertising

This category is for businesses that provide advertising or marketing services to the healthcare industries.

Please submit only healthcare marketing and advertising firms in this category. Sites selling healthcare-related products should be listed under Business/Healthcare/Products_and_Services.

Marketplaces

Marketplaces facilitate interactions and transactions between buyers and sellers in the healthcare industry, providing a platform for promoting products and services and allowing buyers to select the most appropriate or cost-effective source.

Sites listed here will allow multiple suppliers to link with multiple buyers. Sites representing a single company should be submitted elsewhere.

News and Media

News and media concerning the healthcare industry may include electronic or print publications.

This category is for non-commercial sites about publications relating to some aspect of the healthcare industry. Consumer-oriented publications will be considered for this category if their content is sufficiently professional in nature.

Sites with online sales must be sent to Health Books and publications concerning health rather than healthcare belong here instead.

To minimise the delay in listing your site, please follow these guidelines.

Nursing

The nursing profession is becoming increasingly specialized and technological, and requires a range of specific products and services.

Sites listed here will concern companies and businesses offering products and/or services to the nursing profession. Before submitting your site, please visit Health/Nursing as that is the appropriate destination for sites concerning education, care plans, nursing organizations or employment, and submitting here will delay your listing.

Also note that there are other categories for the following :

online sales of nursing uniforms here
online sales of nursing textbooks here
makers of protective clothing here

Products and Services

Links for those businesses that sell products or services to the Professional Healthcare Industry. This means those businesses that serve the healthcare industry, not the healthcare industry itself. If your site is targeted for the public and not the healthcare industry please submit your site to the appropriate category in Health. If you are selling products to the public/consumer, please submit to the Shopping tree: Shopping/Health and Beauty.

If you are selling products to the public/consumer, please submit to the Shopping tree: Shopping/Health and Beauty.