- Guides
to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the
Internet
- Guides
to Protecting Your Health Care Privacy
- General
Consumer Health and Medical Sites
- Online
Medical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Multicultural
Health Sites
Guides to Finding and Evaluating Health Information
on the Internet
- Buying
Medicines and Medical Products Online
Excellent advice from the FDA. Don't buy any medical
product online without reading this site first.
- Evaluating
Health Information on the World Wide Web
An excellent primer on the subject from the SPRY
(Setting Priorities for Retirement Years) Foundation,
a non-profit organization which is the research
and education arm of the National Committee to Preserve
Social Security and Medicare.
- HON
Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites
Health on the Net Foundation (HON) is a non-profit
international organization which provides leadership
in setting ethical standards for Web site developers.
Look for Web sites displaying the HONcode logo to
be sure these eight standards are met. Two other
national organizations committed to high quality
health information on the Internet are Internet
Healthcare Coalition and Health
Internet Ethics (Hi-Ethics).
- National
Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information
This is a good starting point to organize a search
for health information, not only on the Internet,
but also from other sources such as your local library,
interlibrary loan, National Library of Medicine,
and more.
- Now
You Have a Diagnosis: What's Next?
Information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality that helps newly diagnosed
patients and their families find information that
will help them make the best treatment decisions.
- Ten
Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resources
on the Web
This guide, from the National Cancer Institute,
is helpful for evaluating any Web site.
- Tips
for Healthy Surfing Online
From the Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC), a
group dedicated to "developing guidelines for the
ethical use of the Internet in health care." It
also provides pointers for evaluating Web sites
and an eHealth
Code of Ethics for Web site content providers.
- URAC
Health Web Site Accreditation URAC is a major
health Web site accreditation organization that
requires sites to adhere to a "variety of standards
relating to health site quality and integrity including
privacy and security, an editorial process that
fosters the creation of reliable information, and
internal structures that promote quality." The site
provides a list of their accredited health Web sites.
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