Women's Health Information Center

[Jean Kajikawa]

     FYI/JEAN


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Subject: Women's Health Information Center
Author:  <hhsnews at os.dhhs.gov> at INTERNET
Date:    2/4/98 11:17 PM


     
     
     NEW NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER NOW
                    OPEN FOR TESTING!
     
          1-800-994-WOMAN   or    http://www.4woman.org
     
The U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health (PHS OWH) 
invites you to test our new National Women's Health Information 
Center, (NWHIC) during the month of February! Through a toll-free 
phone number and the Internet, the NWHIC acts as a federal "Woman's 
Health Central" for the public, health care professionals, educators, 
researchers and women in the military. By organizing the vast array of 
health information for women to a single point of entry, the PHS OWH 
hopes that women will have easier access to information from Federal 
Health Clearinghouses within the DHHS, and hundreds of private sector 
organizations.
     
If you have a question about women's health in general or about a 
specific program, concern, or disease, you can call 1-800-994-WOMAN. 
Our specially trained health information specialists will be happy 
to provide the information to you. You can also access our website 
at http://www.4woman.org.
     
Once you have made the connection with our new service, we would like 
to hear your feedback! Were the specialists helpful? Were you able to 
get your questions answered? Is the web-site user-friendly? Do you have 
any suggestions on how we can improve the service? You can give us 
feedback by e-mailing us via our FEEDBACK option on the website, or by 
calling the PHS OWH office at 202-260-9275. We hope this pre-test 
period will give the PHS OWH the information it needs to make this a 
truly useful service for women, as well as help us assess the impact of 
the service on other federal health agencies. 
     
We would like to officially launch this new service in March/April. 
Please help us reach that goal by testing and letting us know how it 
works.
     
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is a
joint project of the U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's 
Health, within the Department of Health and Human Services,
and the Department of Defense Women's Health Research Program.
     
PLEASE GIVE IT A TRY AND LET US HEAR FROM YOU!