Health Improvement Institute Quality Award (HIIQA)

Health Improvement Institutes Quality Award (HIIQA)

Winners Ratings Standards Process Feedback

These pages pertain to a pilot project
Welcome to your resource for identifying excellent awards to and ratings of Internet health information sites
HIIQA rates the raters

About HIIQA

The HIIQA is an unsolicited award that the Health Improvement Institute gives to organizations whose awards to or ratings or Internet health information sites are within the HIIQA's scope and meet the Institute's standards of excellence for such awards/ratings. The HIIQA is intended to promote excellence in health-related Internet sites by encouraging organizations that make awards to or rate such sites to do so according to appropriate standards. Volunteer panels assess the awards and ratings of Internet health information sites that the Institute identifies. They reassess each award/rating annually to keep assessments up-to-date. There is no fee associated with the HIIQA. HIIQA is funded from the Institute's general funds. Advisory Board and Volunteer Assessment Panel members are volunteers. They agree to abide by our conflict of interest policy

Use of information

Consumers should remember that the world wide web site on which HIIQA assessors based their judgements about the excellence of an award or rating - and the excellence of an award/rating organization's processes - may have changed since the time of the last assessment. In particular, consumers should not rely on the fact that the award/rating organization received the HIIQA to indicate that the information on its web site, nor the information on the web sites that received the organization's award or rating, is fit for a particular purpose.
Consumers would be well-advised to compare health information from several reputable sources, and, those with health problems should seek the advice of a qualified health care practitioner to assist them to interpret information in light of their individual circumstances.
The Institute welcomes your feedback about the HIIQA's utility in helping consumers to identify excellent web sites, this web site's user-friendliness, and related matters. We use consumers', judges', and entrants' feedback to improve HIIQA processes and the way that we present information about the awards on our web site.