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- Web Mèdica Acreditada website is upgraded
The WMA website has been upgraded in content and most of all in design. Thanks to that the website achieves the best standards of XHMTL, CSS and web accessibility level A of the WAI. - Workshop "Healht related Websites Quality accreditation"
In Barcelona on 9 October, 2006, the InCom-UAB Observatory of Communication and Health will organise a workshop in Barcelona entitled net-Health 2006: Accrediting quality for health-related websites. In collaboration with the Medical Association of Barcelona, IQUA and Azprensa. - Web Mèdica Acreditada launch a new european project: MedIEQ
On January, the project MedIEQ (Quality Labeling of Medical Web Content using Multilingual Information Extraction) begins under the Public Health funded programmes of the European Union. The aim of this project is to provide different tools to automate the medical websites review process using metadata and the Semantic Web. - Web Médica Acreditada between the most familiar health quality seals in the world
Analysis of 9th HON Survey of Health and Medical Internet Users Winter 2004-2005. - Psinet of the UOC and Web Mèdica Acreditada collaboration
- WMA paper on accessibility presented in Inforsalud 2005 (VIII National Congress of Health Information Science)
An important subject when talking about quality on the web is accessibility. This aspect is currently high-priority for the EU and member states. Therefore, during 2005, public administrations have to adapt their websites to a series of standardized criteria on accessibility. WMA is also working to do the same. - Medcircle: search engines are key in standardizing quality "on line"
The European Union and the United States have focused their efforts in the normalization of health website quality towards search engines, the main access road to information available on the Internet. Medcircle, of the EU, attempts to use "platform Internet content selection" as search criteria. In the U.S., however, the creation of a search health algorithm is being considered. Diariomedico.com. - Family practice doctors need to use the new technologies
For the first time in its history, the Semfyc Congress will cover the subject of new technologies in relation to primary care. Other subjects that will be covered during the sessions are: professional use of the search engine in Internet, confidentiality in computer science, shared clinical history, analysis of healthcare web pages, quality of primary healthcare contents on line and the use of pocket computers. Diariomedico.com. - Quality seals help users identify the best health related websites
The quality of medical information that currently exists on the Internet is one of the main subjects of discussion in Mednet 2003 (Eighth World-wide Congress of Internet and Medicine) celebrated in Geneva (Switzerland). Diariomedico.com. - Continuing education on the Internet: a future project
Continuing education through the net is something that advances slowly, but surely. According to findings during the scientific session “Education and the Internet”, celebrated within the V National Congress of Health Information Science Inforsalud 2002, a series of conditions are necessary so that on line continuing education becomes a common practice. These conditions affect contents and practices. In addition to quality programs, it is necessary to consider methodology and accreditation. Diariomedico.com. - The Medical Association of Barcelona accredits health/medical websites
Spain´s most important initiative aimed at ensuring that health websites provide trustworthy information comes from the Medical Association of Barcelona. In 1999, the college started the first self regulation scheme for health websites targeted at the Spanish speaking world. Br Med J 2002; 324:567. - Web Mèdica Acreditada of the Medical Association of Barcelona gives a quality seal to the best medical websites
Web Mèdica Acreditada of the Medical Association of Barcelona gives a quality seal to the best medical websites. Diariomedico.com.
Last update: 13-09-2006