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ENONYMOUS.COM
May 25, 2000
PersonalMD.com Awarded Highest
Privacy Rating From Enonymous.com
Company
is Working with Hi-Ethics to Guide the Ethical and Quality Foundation for Internet
Health Sites
Pleasanton,
Calif., May 25, 2000 - PersonalMD.com, a health care Internet technology company,
has received Enonymous.com's highest rating for its privacy policy. News of this
prestigious four-star designation comes only days after the company's announcement
that it is a founding member of Hi-Ethics. The coalition of 20 of the most widely
trafficked Internet health sites and content providers was created to address
privacy, advertising and content quality issues for Internet health consumers.
"We're
honored that Enonymous.com has recognized the stringent efforts PersonalMD.com
undertakes to assure that information provided by members is completely confidential
and secure," states PersonalMD.com Senior Vice President Alan Zwerner, MD,
JD, who directs the development of PersonalMD.com privacy policies. "Consumers
deserve to know how health sites are safeguarding their confidential information
and trust that the information they read is totally unbiased."
Zwerner
further congratulates the other three Hi-Ethics members which received Enonymous.com's
highest rating, including America Online (NYSE: AOL), InteliHealth and HealthGate
(NASDAQ: HGAT). These and all of the 20 Hi-Ethics companies are dedicated to meeting
the goals of:
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Providing health information that is trustworthy and up-to-date,
- Clearly
identifying online advertising and disclosing sponsorships or other financial
relationships that significantly affect our content or services,
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Keeping personal information private and secure, and employing special precautions
for any personal health information,
- Empowering
consumers to distinguish online health services that follow the Hi-Ethics principles
from those that do not.
The
Enonymous.com report represents comprehensive online privacy research, covering
30,000 website privacy policies. Only 3.5 percent of these websites received the
prestigious four-star rating.
About PersonalMD.com
PersonalMD.com is a health care Internet technology company
which enables health care organizations and employers to improve
medical outcomes, decrease utilization, reduce costs and improve
member/employee satisfaction. Core products and services include
the most highly scaleable and comprehensive Personal Medical
Record, ER Call which automatically notifies emergency contacts
when an ER physician retrieves a member's Personal Medical
Record, an Emergency Card which enables physicians to access
a patient's medical record immediately worldwide 24 hours
a day, medication reminders, health assessment tools, and
personalized content. PersonalMD.com is headquartered in Pleasanton,
California, and operates a software engineering office in
India.
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