Combines and categorizes your results, according to customizable options. Provided by Elsevier Science and powered by FAST Search and Transfer. From Search Engine Watch. This Washington, D.C.-based organization, also known as URAC, is currently working on an effort to create an accredited seal of approval for Internet health sites. URAC hopes to finalize a set of standards in the Spring of 2001, with implementation of the accreditation program to begin later in the year.
Draft standards are currently available for public review and comment.
Web Site Evaluation Presents a set of seven criteria developed for use in evaluating the quality of health information provided on the Internet. From the Health Information Technology Institute, part of the healthcare program of Mitretek Systems, Inc., a nonprofit technology company working in the public interest. Intended to help standardize the reliability of medical and health information available on the Web. The HONcode is not an award system and does not rate the quality of sites. The Coalition's goal is to develop well-informed Internet healthcare consumers, professionals, educators, marketers and media.