Report from the Internet Healthcare Coalition's Annual Conference: eHealthcare Gets a Dose of Reality

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Report from the Internet Healthcare Coalition's Annual Conference: eHealthcare Gets a Dose of Reality

Internet healthcare companies should adopt some of the practices traditional healthcare entities use to ensure quality and ethics, according representatives of e-health constituencies and experts in the fields of ethics, privacy, medicine, and media who spoke at the third annual conference of the Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC). The IHC's conference, "Quality Healthcare Information on the 'Net 2000: Establishing Trust, Ensuring Privacy, Enabling E-Commerce," was held in Las Vegas on October 3 to 4. The event addressed privacy concerns and the ethical challenges currently facing the Internet healthcare industry.