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This could be your advert in the next issue Size 130 x 275 mm 2/3 portrait Internet was reported to be the second source of health information after physicians, due to its accessibility and “easiness” of use. Most of the users were WiFi connected and using smartphones or laptops. The most commonly searched types of online health information are treatment/therapy (62% rated it as always or often), detailed (58%) and general (53%) disease descriptions, drug information (51%), side effects (51%) and scientific articles (50%). The most important characteristics of a search engine are relevance and trustworthiness of results. It seems that the main problem is that results currently retrieved using a general search engine do not satisfy these requirements. Smart search The Health On Net foundation offers an internet search tool which shows you only HON approved information sources on the web. One need to enter a search string for example like “knee surgery” and selects the category of information according to your user status: patient, publisher, medical professional and other. The search delivers links to trusted content in the web. All patients should be informed about this valuable tool by their doctors before they start searches by themselves and getting confused or mislead by web publishers on health solutions with commercial interests. Especially in Medical Tourism quite often a medical information is being marketed by different channels which lead back to some providers with a promotional interest behind. HON offers also with its toolbox a specified search for only HON approved websites. Web publishers can apply to get the certification by fulfilling the strict criteria . Sources: HON and CBS local Pittsburgh http://www.hon .ch 22
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