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Web Mèdica Acreditada (WMA) is a quality programme addressed to medical websites. Through a voluntarily certification process, websites that follow that programme meet a set of quality criteria, making possible a trustworthy virtual community on the Internet for general public, patients and health professionals. More information

Certifying your website

Publications

• Mayer MA, Leis A, Sanz F. La información de salud en Internet y los sellos de confianza como indicadores de calidad: el caso de las vacunas. Aten Primaria 2009;41(10):534-44.
• Mayer MA, Leis A. Nuevas herramientas para profesionales en Internet. FMC. Form Med Contin Aten Prim. 2009;16(4):196-203.
• Alvarez-Pasquín MJ, Heijbel H, Yarwood J, Van Damme P and VACSATC partners. VACSATC (Vaccine safety: attitudes, training and communication): Why such a project? . Eurosurveillance 2009; 14(16):1-4.
• Karkaletsis V, Stamatakis K, Karampiperis P, Labský M, Růžička M, Svátek V, Amigó E, Pölla M, Mayer MA, Villarroel D. Management of Medical Website Quality Labels via Web Mining. En: Berka P, Rauch J, Abdelkader D (eds). Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications. Medical Information Science Reference, IGI Global (USA), 2009; pp. 206-226.

Collaborations

QUATRO Plus
Is a two year follow-on project to QUATRO which started in October 2007. QUATRO Plus aims to build on the success of the original project which developed a universal machine-readable labelling platform by improving the existing technologies by making the communication processes more secure and robust and increasing the functionalities of the existing LADI and Viq tools and developing simple to use tools for label creation. This project will be fully compliant with the recommendation currently being developed by the W3C POWDER Working Group for content labels.

MedIEQ
Quality Labeling of Medical Web content using Multilingual Information Extraction (MedIEQ) lies into the “Health Information” priority area of the “Public Health” work plan for 2005, in the action “2.1.5 eHealth”, where the following are written “Work on verification of health information sites, as mentioned in the Commission Communication on eHealth will continue to receive support.Ensuring improvements in the reliability of information provided to the public through internet sites by means of examining best practice and proposing common solutions”.

VACSATC
Vaccine Safety Attitudes, Training and Communication (VACSATC) lies into the "Health & Consumer Protection" priority area of the "Public Health" work plan for 2005, action "Exchanging information on vaccination and immunisation strategies". The general objectives are: identify the effectiveness of vaccination programmes through better informed, provide objective science based information about immunizations and vaccine safety on web sites, improve data possibilities for conducting epidemiological studies. In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and its project Vaccine Safety Net as well.