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Updated: 14 March, 2002 |
Certification and Ethics for
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The number of Internet users accessing health information is growing- and so is the number of public health sites on the WWW. Some of them have special target groups (families, children, elderly), others focus on certain diseases or a clinical specialties. The customer is confronted with a plethora of articles, advice, products and information tidbits.
On this page EHTO provides selected links regarding the quality and certification of health information available over the Internet as well as questions of ethics. Please also refer to our topic page on Electronic Health Records (EHR) as it contains topics which are closely related to the discussion of certification and ethics, such as security issues and legal matters.
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- MedCERTAIN (beta release site) and MedCERTAIN project website
- Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet - Principles Governing AMA Web Sites
by the American Medical Association (AMA)
or (download article as PDF)- American Accreditation HealthCare Comission (URAC)
- Towards quality management of medical information on the Internet: evaluation, labelling and filtering of information
(online article by Eysenbach/Diepgen available from bmj.com)- Medical Metrix Plan (assesses medical sites, free registration required to view directory)
- NCQA - National Committee of Quality Assurance (USA)
- e-Health Ethics Initiative and e-Health Code of Ethics
- Hi-Ethics - Health Internet Ethics
- Ethics Survey of Consumer Attitudes about Health Web Sites (by California Healthcare Foundation)
- Developing Rules for the Web (from AMA News, 31.07.2000)
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