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The Medical College of Georgia Telemedicine Center, in concert with remote communities, has developed a comprehensive statewide telemedicine program that uses standardized procedures, protocols and data collection.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is part of a dynamic department that encompasses a diversity of research and clinical interests. The department hosts an AIDS Prevention Research Center, one of only a handful of such centers nationwide and has received over 25 million dollars in research funding in this area. The Psychiatry Department collaborates with other specialties at the Medical Center in conducting functional MRI research regarding cocaine and other drugs of abuse. The Foley Center for the research of Older Adult Development provides another psychiatry department function. The department is an active participant in the American Organization of Occupational Psychiatry and co-sponsors the Milwaukee Cognitive Therapy Institute. The Wisconsin New Training Facility of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis consists of full time and clinical departmental faculty members. Additional research focuses on clinical drug protocols and brain mapping. The MCW Psychiatry Department is currently the only non-Chicago member of the Chicago Research Consortium and one of the leaders in research funding. Finally, it is one of the leaders in academic managed care.

Founded in 1926, the Medical Group Management Association is the oldest and largest organization representing medical group practice. MGMA's 19,000 members manage and lead more than 10,200 organizations in which more than 200,000 physicians practice. MGMA leads the profession and assists members through information, education, networking and advocacy. MGMA's core purpose is to improve the effectiveness of medical group practices and the knowledge and skills of the individuals who manage and lead them.

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The Medical Informatics and Technology Applicatoins Consortium {MITAC] is a Commercial Space Center [CSC] of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Agency [NASA]. MITAC was established to develop, evaluate, and promote information and medical technologies for space flight and ground applications.

The basic premise of a CSC is to leverage technology through partnerships with industrial affiliates and other government agencies to benefit both human space flight and the commercial sector.

MITAC is a consortium comprised of partners from government, academic institutions and industry that have a commercial interest in products and technology related to telemedicine, medical informatics and medical technology.

Established in 1997, the non-profit Medical Internet Forum [MIF] represents major healthcare organizations active on the Internet. Its mission is to utilize its membership's knowledge, experience, and expertise in the use of Internet-based technologies to address healthcare delivery issues. By advocating and guiding the use of these technologies through education, demonstration, training, conferences, and support groups, MIF strives to promote wellness and assist the efficient delivery of quality healthcare.

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The Medical Outcomes Trust was incorporated in 1992 as a non-profit public service organization. The Trust is dedicated to improving health and health care by distributing standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care. One such instrument finding increasing use in mental health is the BASIS-32.

The Trust supports the use of these instruments with membership, education and training, and publications.

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The Medical Records Institute [MRI] was founded on the principle that the future of health information technology lies in the successful creation and implementation of electronic health record systems.

• MRI promotes electronic health records wherever possible and supports all processes involved in the creation of a technological, legal, professional, and standards environment
• MRI focuses on the emerging vision of electronic health records as part of a seamless, patient-centered information system. The substance of this vision includes integrated health care delivery encompassing both clinical and financial information
• part MRI envisions this electronic health record system within a national and global information infrastructure, and as part of the future of telemedicine
• MRI works to educate the public about the benefits and hurdles of electronic health records, to support the industry and developers in their efforts, to educate providers about their options in migrating toward electronic health record systems, and to provide information to other parties involved in the process
• communicates this message through our newsletter, publications, seminars, conferences, symposia and developers programs, as well as participating in applied research and standards work in select areas of interest.

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The Medical Research Council [MRC] is the best established statutory research body in sub-Saharan Africa. Its task is to improve health and quality of life of the population of South Africa through excellent scientific research. MRC considers health, development, economic growth and the well-being of the nation to be closely linked, and sees research as the cornerstone of healthcare.

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The Medical Society of the State of New York [MSSNY) is a non-profit organization of some 30,000 licensed physicians, medical residents, and medical students. MSSNY represents the medical profession as a whole and advocates health related rights, responsibilities an issues. MSSNY strives to promote and maintain high standards in medical education and in the practice of medicine in an effort to ensure that quality medical care is available to the public.

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MedicalAutomation.org is a non-profit educational organization organized to better inform all health care consumers about new health improvements and cost saving technologies..

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Medicongress organizes major medical and scientific congresses.