Health On the Net Foundation

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
  • Year: 2003
  • Award: World Summit Award
  • Category: Health & Well Being
  • Producer: Health On the Net Foundation, under the aegis of the Direction Generale de la Sante - Dpt Action sociale et Sante
  • Country: Switzerland
  • URL: http://www.hon.ch/

The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) promotes best practices in e-Health. It supports doctors and patients as well generally interested citizens in the use of medical information on the Web. It improves and structures access to quality information and provides guidelines of how to use and evaluate internet health information. The HON Foundation also created and implemented ethical standards for online providers. Over 3,600 health web sites have already been accredited according to these standards.