Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:17:52 -0400
From: John Mack <[log in to unmask]>
President, Internet Healthcare Coalition
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http://www.ihealthcoalition.org
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SUBJECT: Annual Meeting of the Internet Healthcare Coalition: Focus on
Privacy and Ethics
Quality Healthcare Information on the 'Net 2000:
Establishing Trust, Ensuring Privacy, Enabling E-Commerce
October 3-4, 2000 · Las Vegas Hilton · Las Vegas, NV
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/program2000.html
REGISTER NOW at http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/regform.html
The annual Fall meeting of the Internet Healthcare Coalition will be held
concurrently with Windows on Healthcare 2000. This 2-day meeting will
include:
· Speaker presentations
· Panel discussions
· Networking opportunities, and
· Exhibitors
Noted keynote speakers and other experts in the field of ethics, privacy,
and e-commerce in the online health area will be featured. Over the course
of the two-day conference there will be five program slots in which four
separate sessions, or tracks, will run concurrently. The theme of the
tracks are:
Track A: Establishing Trust
Track B: Ensuring Privacy
Track C: Enabling Ethical, Profitable E-Commerce
Track D: Empowering Patients/Healthcare Consumers
Who Should Attend
Approximately 600 to 800 people are expected to attend this third annual
conference of the Internet Healthcare Coalition. Attendees are expected
from online health and e-commerce web sites, pharmaceutical companies,
hospitals, patient organizations and advocates, libraries, publishers,
healthcare systems and plans, and government organizations.
About the Internet Healthcare Coalition
The Coalition is an international, non-partisan, non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting quality healthcare resources on the Internet.
Founded in 1997, the Coalition's membership represents every sector of the
Internet health space, including consumers, patient advocates, commercial
developers of health information, health professionals, medical
librarians, government officials, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The
goal of the Coalition is to educate healthcare consumers, health
professionals and others about the evolving issues relating to the quality
of Internet health resources and information. The Coalition also fulfills
a valuable role in building consensus among the many stakeholders involved
in online health information quality issues. In October 1999, responding
to calls from within the Internet Health community, the Coalition launched
its ongoing 'eHealth Ethics Initiative" to provide a forum for the
development of a universal set of ethical principles for health-related
Web sites.
---------- MORE INFO ABOUT THE MEETING -----------
Quality Healthcare Information on the 'Net 2000:
Establishing Trust, Ensuring Privacy, Enabling E-Commerce
October 3-4, 2000 · Las Vegas Hilton · Las Vegas, NV
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/program2000.html
REGISTER NOW at http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/regform.html
This conference is shaping up to be a major event in the history of the
ehealth ethics "movement." With nearly 40 speakers and over 30
presentations, the program is truly awesome and timely. This meeting is
likely to be the one "sure bet" in Las Vegas for a long time to come!
Participate and help "tame the wild west" image of health on Internet.
The meeting will address many of the issues brought up in a recent AMA News
article - "Developing rules for the Web: Concern over how health information
is presented on the Internet has prompted several groups to step up to the
challenge of developing ethics for medical sites."
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_00/prsa0731.htm ).
All the groups mentioned in this article -- HON, Hi-Ethics, AMA, Internet
Healthcare Coalition -- as well as some not mentioned -- FTC, medCERTAIN,
URAC -- that are taking the lead in developing ethical guidelines for
ehealth, will be at the IHC conference -- speaking, meeting behind the
scenes (expect some important announcements to be made at the conference),
interacting with the audience.
POWER PANEL
Dr. George Lundberg will challenge representatives from the above
organizations to speak publically about "Compliance in the Real World" --
see http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/present-conf2000.html#power I
cannot think of anyone more appropriate to stir up controversy and get
people moving. Dr. Lundberg has put the process of developing an ehealth
code of ethics in perspective:
"The peer review process applied to medical publishing was begun in England
and in France at about the same time during the 18th century,
Yet it was not until 1978 that the International Committee of Medical
Journal
Editors was convened to write the rules of ethical behaviour for authors,
editors, and publishers. Nearly 300 years. I call that "Gutenberg Time".
The medical internet was begun in 1994-1995. By the year 2000 we have not
one, but several, reasonably compatible sets of ethical rules of behaviour
for authors, editors, and publishers. Five years. I call that "Internet
Time"."
-- George Lundberg, M.D.
Here are some other highlights from the program (see
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/agenda-conf2000.html for the
complete schedule of presentations and panels).
KEYNOTES:
C. Lee Peeler, Esq., Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices,
Federal Trade Commission - will speak about recent FTC policy
recommendations regarding Internet privacy legislation and the commission's
policy on self-regulation.
Ahmad Risk, M.D., Co-Chair, eHealth Ethics Summit Steering Group - will
speak on "The eHealth Code of Ethics" - Risk will review the process by
which the eHealth Code of Ethics was developed, where it stands today in
relation to other efforts, and what plans exist for maintaining the code and
implementing it on a worldwide basis.
Michael H. Samuelson, Chair, Consumer Advisory Council, cancerfacts.com -
"Healthcare and the Internet: Blending the Voices of Science, Practice, and
Consumer Interests"
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
A4: medCERTAIN - A Rating and Accreditation Project for Health Websites -
Speaker: Gunther Eysenbach, M.D. (What's happenning in Europe!)
A7: Building Trust -- Health Web Site Accreditation - Speaker: Guy D'Andrea
(URAC)
B1: Good Privacy Practices for eHealth Web Sites: What Can Be Learned from
Government Policies and Voluntary Industry Standards; Speaker: Alexander
Brittin (McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P)
C2: The Role of Corporate Ethics Training - Speaker: Mark E. Meaney, Ph.D.
(Center for Ethics in Health Care)
D6: Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet:
Principles Governing AMA Web Sites - Speaker: Margaret Winker (AMA)
EXHIBITORS:
The following sites will have displays in the e-Healthcare.com Showcase
(exhibit space is still available - see
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/showcase2000.html )
Aunt Minnie.com
Cancerfacts.com
Discovery Health
Harcourt WB Saunders
Healthallies.com
Intelihealth
LifeMasters Supported Selfcare
Mayo Health Oasis
Physician Verification Services
URAC
WellMed
DON'T MISS THIS ONE!
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