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Vol 3, No 4 (2001)


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Editorial

An Ontology of Quality Initiatives and a Model for Decentralized, Collaborative Quality Management on the (Semantic) World Wide Web

Gunther Eysenbach

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 31); 3(4):e34

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Original Papers

Evaluation of Norwegian cancer hospitals' Web sites and explorative survey among cancer patients on their use of the Internet

Jan Norum

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e30

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BACKGROUND: Hospital homepages should provide comprehensive information on the hospital's services, such as departments and treatments available, prices, waiting time, leisure facilities, and other information important for patients and their relatives. Norway, with its population of approximately 4.3 million, ranks among the top countries globally for its ability to absorb and use technology. It is unclear to what degree Norwegian hospitals and patients use the Internet for information about...

Use of the Internet as a Resource for Consumer Health Information: Results of the Second Osteopathic Survey of Health Care in America (OSTEOSURV-II)

John C Licciardone, Peggy Smith-Barbaro, Samuel T Coleridge

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e31

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BACKGROUND: The Internet offers consumers unparalleled opportunities to acquire health information. The emergence of the Internet, rather than more-traditional sources, for obtaining health information is worthy of ongoing surveillance, including identification of the factors associated with using the Internet for this purpose. OBJECTIVES: To measure the prevalence of Internet use as a mechanism for obtaining health information in the United States; to compare such Internet use with...

A Java-based Electronic Healthcare Record Software for Beta-thalassaemia

S Deftereos, C Lambrinoudakis, P Andriopoulos, D Farmakis, A Aessopos

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e33

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BACKGROUND: Beta-thalassaemia is a hereditary disease, the prevalence of which is high in persons of Mediterranean, African, and Southeast Asian ancestry. In Greece it constitutes an important public health problem. Beta-thalassaemia necessitates continuous and complicated health care procedures such as daily chelation; biweekly transfusions; and periodic cardiology, endocrinology, and hepatology evaluations. Typically, different care items are offered in different, often-distant, health care...

Design and Implementation of a Portal for the Medical Equipment Market: MEDICOM

Stergios Palamas, Dimitris Kalivas, Ourania Panou-Diamandi, Cees Zeelenberg, Chris van Nimwegen

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e32

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BACKGROUND: The MEDICOM (Medical Products Electronic Commerce) Portal provides the electronic means for medical-equipment manufacturers to communicate online with their customers while supporting the Purchasing Process and Post Market Surveillance. The Portal offers a powerful Internet-based search tool for finding medical products and manufacturers. Its main advantage is the fast, reliable and up-to-date retrieval of information while eliminating all unrelated content that a general-purpose...

Review

Review Of Internet Health Information Quality Initiatives

Ahmad Risk, Joan Dzenowagis

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e28

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BACKGROUND: The massive growth of health information on the Internet; the global nature of the Internet; the seismic shift taking place in the relationships of various actors in this arena, and the absence of real protection from harm for citizens who use the Internet for health purposes are seen to be real problems. One response to many of these problems has been the burgeoning output of codes of conduct by numerous organizations trying to address quality of health information. OBJECTIVES:...

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Commentary to "Review of Internet Health Information Quality Initiatives"

Cynthia Baur, Mary Jo Deering

J Med Internet Res 2001 (Dec 26); 3(4):e29

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