Health information with a seal of approval
12.12.2014 11:44
As the Health Information System Action Forum (afgis) reports, the demand for verified health information on the Internet is increasing. Pages bearing the afgis quality logo were viewed more than 26 million times in 2014. afgis assumes that in the future state institutions will also provide their Internet offerings with a quality logo. The club sees itself up to this task, not least thanks to its personnel changes.
The afgis board sees the high download numbers as a clear success of the intensive cooperation with the National Contact and Information Center for the Stimulation and Support of Self-Help Groups (NAKOS). Against the background of the recently published "Digital Agenda 2014 - 2017 of the Federal Government" and the declared goal of "transparency with easily comprehensible customer information, consent and data portability", the Action Forum expects that in the future state institutions will also subject their Internet offerings to quality assessment procedures and the successful conclusion through a Quality logo will be documented.
afgis sees itself as ideally suited for this task: the afgis quality seal has been operationalized as a business model and brought to market maturity. Providers of health information on the Internet are invited to subject their web offerings to the afgis quality assessment process and to make the trustworthiness of their offerings visible to visitors.
The association has established itself as a specialist society for health information and has appointed a scientific advisory board. In the future, he will continue to give priority to playing a key role in the development of web standards. Afgis is currently involved in the public consultation of the “Green Paper on mobile health” at EU level.
At the association's general meeting in November in Hanover, an important decision was made in order to continue to achieve the goals we had set ourselves in the future: she was appointed second chairwoman Dr. med. Susanne Rödel chosen. The doctor, who holds a doctorate, works as Medical Director at Spirit Link Medical (Erlangen), a healthcare agency with a digital focus. She succeeds Dr. med. Fabian Weiland, who left the company on September 30, 2014 in accordance with the statutes. Now serving as treasurer Ingo Kusserow (Berlin), who works as an industrial engineer in refractive surgery (laser eye surgery, cataracts) for eye surgeons and patients. He replaces Evelyne Hohmann, who has held this position since 2008. He is still the club chairman Raimund Dehmlow, qualified librarian and head of the online editorial team of the Lower Saxony Medical Association.