HON Code Certified

in Health

JEM Con­sul­tants 

JEM Consultants-www.jeminer.com an infor­ma­tional and edu­ca­tional web­site received Health On the Net Foun­da­tion (HON) Accreditation.

This site pro­vides health and well­ness infor­ma­tion and resources for lifestyle man­age­ment and opti­mal well­ness. The site uti­lizes a holis­tic approach which incor­po­rates tra­di­tional, com­ple­men­tary and alter­na­tive modalities.

 JEM Con­sul­tants, web­site  www.jeminer.com ‚is pleased to announce that it has received accred­i­ta­tion by the Health On the Net (HON) Foun­da­tion. The HON Foun­da­tion accred­i­ta­tion of my site was extremely impor­tant to me, so that my efforts to educate, inform about the choices avail­able, to improve health and well­ness lit­er­acy, and ulti­mately to assist in decreas­ing health care dis­par­ity on a global level has been validated.

 Health On the Net (HON)

The Health On the Net (HON) Foundation-http://hon.ch/ orig­i­nated in 1995 in Switzer­land when experts in telemed­i­cine meet at a con­fer­ence and decided to pro­mote the reli­able use of the inter­net for telemed­i­cine globally.

 HON code is the old­est and the most used eth­i­cal and trust­wor­thy code for med­ical and health related infor­ma­tion avail­able on Internet”.

HON Code of Con­duct 

  • Author­i­ta­tive: Indi­cate the qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the authors
  •  Com­ple­men­tary: Infor­ma­tion should sup­port, not replace, the doctor-patient relationship
  •  Pri­vacy: respect the pri­vacy and con­fi­den­tial­ity of per­sonal data sub­mit­ted to the site by the vis­i­tor 
  • Attribu­tive: Cite the sources of pub­lished infor­ma­tion, date and med­ical pages
  • Jus­ti­fi­a­bil­ity: Site must back up claims relat­ing to ben­e­fits and performance 
  • Trans­parency: Acces­si­ble pre­sen­ta­tion, accu­rate email con­tact 
    Finan­cial Dis­clo­sure: Iden­ti­fy­ing fund­ing sources
  • Adver­tis­ing Pol­icy: Clearly dis­tin­guish adver­tis­ing from edi­to­r­ial con­tent   The entire descrip­tion of each prin­ci­ple can be view on the HON Foun­da­tion website.

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