The Health on the Net Foundation - Medical Information

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"Health On the Net Foundation's origins go back to September 7-8, 1995, when some of the world's foremost experts on telemedicine gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a conference entitled The Use of the Internet and World-Wide Web for Telematics in Healthcare. The 60 participants came from 11 countries... As the conference wound up, they unanimously voted to create a permanent body that would, in the words of the programme, 'promote the effective and reliable use of the new technologies for telemedicine in healthcare around the world.' HON's site went live some six months later. On March 20, 1996, www.hon.ch became one of the very first URLs to guide both lay users and medical professionals to reliable sources of healthcare information in cyberspace."

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