Steering clear of pitfalls in physician Web sites
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From the September 2000 ACP-ASIM Observer, copyright © 2000 by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
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- Steering clear of pitfalls in physician Web sites The Hi-Ethics Alliance (for Health Internet) and the Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC) have both published ethical and commercial Internet guidelines. The Hi-Ethics Alliance principles are available at www.hiethics.org, while IHC guidelines are available at www.ihealthcoalition.org.
The Health on the Net (HON) Foundation's Code of Conduct principles can be found at www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html.
"Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet: Principles Governing AMA Web Sites" appeared in the March 22/29, 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association at http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n12/ffull/jsc00054.html.
This year, the AMA adopted "Guidelines for Patient-Physician Electronic Mail." The guidelines can be found at www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/annual00/reports/bot/bot2a00.doc.
The Federal Trade Commission has information on e-privacy and fraud protection at www.ftc.gov.
For more information on HHS' proposed security standards, see www.hcfa.gov/news/pr1998/pr81198.htm.
A report sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation entitled "Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites" is available at ehealth.chcf.org/priv_pol3/index.cfm. The report gives details about privacy problems with many national health care sites.
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