Health On the Net Foundation - HONinfo January 2004
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First of all,
the Health On the Net Foundation's team would like to wish you all and dearest
ones a prosperous & healthy New Year 2004!
We take this opportunity to present you the key accomplishements of HON
during December 2003. More information on achievments during this year is
avalaible on the Last HON News.
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HON, winner of the World Summit Award category: e-Health
HON is the winner of the Best Content in e-Health category of the World
ummit Awards for a comprehensive overview on best practice in e-content and
creativity on the Information Society. This award was attributed the 10the
december during the WSIS (9-13 December 2003). We would like to share it
with you all for without your constant and faithful support we wouldn’t have been
able to receive such a reward for our outcomes since 1995.
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Health Information you can trust: HONcode Toolbar
HON developed, jointly with NetUnion of Lausanne, a new tool for Trustworthy
Health Information. This new HONcode Toolbar is the first of its kind, and
allows web surfers to highlight and select text from a web page and search for
HON-certified sites (nearly 4000) about more than 33'000 medical and health
topics. This "HONcode status" feature lets the user check automatically whether
a site bearing the HONcode seal is really in compliance with the Code.
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MedNet 2003 - Internet & Health for All
HON organised MedNet 2003 from 4 to 7 December 2003.This Conference
brought together 180 participants, like researchers, developers and users of
applications of the Internet in Medicine, from 29 countries as far as Kuwait,
South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, New
Zealand, North America.
The abstracts and presentations (PPT) are available online.
The increasing success of this event is all due to the contributor's high scientific
level and to the quality of the keynote's interventions who agreed to share their
large visions and expertises with us. But without the cheerful participation of the
assistance, this conference wouldn't have been such a great success.
And, last but not least, we would like also to express our very special thanks to
the scientific reviewers & the scientific committee for their willingness and timely
review of nearly 150 contributions.
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