title: Health on the Net Foundation: assessing the quality of health web pages all over the world.
abstract: The Internet provides a great amount of information and has become one of the communication media which is most widely used [1]. However, the problem is no longer finding information but assessing the credibility of the publishers as well as the relevance and accuracy of the documents retrieved from the web. This problem is particularly relevant in the medical area which has a direct impact on the well-being of citizens. In this paper, we assume that the quality of web pages can be controlled, even when a huge amount of documents has to be reviewed. But this must be supported by both specific automatic tools and human expertise. In this context, we present various initiatives of the Health on the Net Foundation informing the citizens about the reliability of the medical content on the web.
authors.affiliation: Health on the Net Foundation, Geneva 14, Switzerland. celia.boyer@healthonnet.org
authors.forename: Célia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaudinat
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baujard
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geissbühler
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000068:Accreditation; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005582:Foundations; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care