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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 2000;283:1677-1678.

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Washington—Ten days remain in which to comment on an endeavor that participants hope will improve the health content of the Internet, content that is changing the practice of medicine in the United States and elsewhere. At least 15,000 World Wide Web sites carry health and medical information, and they have been subject to little regulation. The Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to quality health care resources on the Internet, is trying to remedy this far from satisfactory situation.

Internet health information attracts seekers. (Photo credit: PhotoDisc, Inc)

Ensuring that only trustworthy information about health and medical care is disseminated on the Web will require the combined efforts of a great number of interested parties. To this end, the e-Health Ethics Summit—60 selectees representing consumers, patient advocates, dot-com entities, ethicists, health care professionals, academicians, manufacturers of regulated drugs and medical devices, and governmental agencies—has . . . [Full Text of this Article]