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This section is under development and some letters below will not have resources available at this time. We welcome suggestions for resources related to the quality and/or evaluation of interactive health communication (IHC) applications and technologies. It is recommended that you review our IHC Checklist before nominating a resource. 

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Access/Accessibility

• Disabilities Issues Task Force - Federal Communications Commission
• Eng TR, Maxfield A, Patrick K, Deering MJ, Ratzan S, Gustafson D. Access to health information and support: A public highway or a private road? JAMA 1998;280:1371-1375
• Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide - National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• Smart choices: Online health information, public access to the Internet - healthfinder^®
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C

Appeals/Grievances

• Smart choices: Fraud and complaints, reporting product complaints - healthfinder^®

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C

Conferences

1999:

• 3/18-3/21: Partnerships for Networked Consumer Health Information Conference - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, DHHS
• 3/22-3/24: HC99: Information at the Heart of Clinical Practice - The British Computer Society and BJHC Ltd.
• 4/16: InfoFair '99 - Smart Patients: Consumer Health Informatics - University of Utah Health Sciences Center
• 4/26-4/28: HII99 - Improving Health in a Digital World - Friends of the National Library of Medicine
• 5/11-5/14: The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference - W3
• 6/22-6/25: INET '99: The Internet Global Summit - The Internet Society
• 10/13: Quality Health Information on the Net '99 - Internet Healthcare Coalition

2000:

• 1/24-1/28: Partnerships for Health in the New Millennium - Healthy People/Partnerships for Networked Consumer Health Information Joint Conference. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, DHHS
• 2/1-2/2: e-Health Ethics Summit - Internet Healthcare Coalition
• 5/15-5/19: The Ninth International World Wide Web Conference - The Web: The Next Generation - W3
• 6/18-6/21:INET 2000 - The Internet Society

Confidentiality/Privacy

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E

Education/Training

• Medical Informatics Training Program - National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health
• National Online Training Center - National Library of Medicine
• Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program - CDC
• PubMed and Internet Grateful Med Training Manuals - National Library of Medicine

Evaluation/Quality

• AltiMed/PharmaLINKS
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Biosites, Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (PSRML)
• British Healthcare Internet Association
• Growth House, Inc.
• Health A to Z
• Health Improvement Institute's Aesculapius Awards
• Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Code of Conduct
• Health Summit Working Group/Health Information Technology Institute
• Health Web
• healthfinder®
• Internet Detective Tutorial - DESIRE Project
• Kim P, Eng T, Deering M, Maxfield A. Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review. BMJ 1999;318:647-649 ( 6 March )
• Kotecki JE, Siegel DE. Electronic notes: Use of a critical thinking/questioning approach to evaluate WWW information. American Journal of Health Behavior 1998;22:75-6. (Not available online).
• Larkin, M. Health information on-line. FDA Consumer 1996;30:21-5.
• McGill University Health Sciences and Osler Libraries, Canada
• Medical Matrix
• Mental Health Network (MHN)
• Mountain and Plains Partnership (MAPP)
• Murray P, Rizzolo M. Web site reviews and evaluations. Nursing Standard Online, 1997; 11:45
• Nutrition Navigator
• Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI)
• Pealer LN, Dorman SM. Evaluating health-related Web sites. J Sch Health 1997;67:232-5. (Not available online)
• Physician’s Choice™
• Silberg WM, Lundberg GD, Musacchio RA. Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical information on the Internet. Caveant lector et viewor--let the reader and buyer beware. JAMA 1997;277:1244-5.
• Sympatico’s HealthyWay Health Links
• The Six Senses Review
• The Wilton Library
• Wyatt JC. Commentary: Measuring quality and impact of the world wide Web. BMJ 1997;314:1879-81.

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G

Guides

• Guidelines for Patient Education Written Materials: An Author's Guide - University of Utah Health Sciences Center

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J

Journal Articles and Books

Journals/Newsletters

• On-Line Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
• Medicine on the Net - COR Healthcare Resources, Inc.
• The Ferguson Report  (FIRST ISSUE - Adobe Acrobat Reader needed)
• The Informatics Review
• World Wide Web Journal (W3J)

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Listservs/Discussion Groups

• consumer-health-informatics
• Health Education And Technology
• MEDWEBMASTERS-L Discussion Group
• Telehealth Professional Mail List
• W3C World Wide Web Mailing Lists

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