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EHEALTH Professional Discussion List Charter

Contents

I. Agreement for Participating

EHEALTH is a loose "sounding board" for professionals with an interest in applications of health care through the Internet. If you accept the following terms, you are warmly welcomed! Please subscribe below and watch messages for a while before sending mail to the list members. As a subscriber, you agree to adhere to the following guidelines as a condition of your subscription:

II. Topics to be Discussed

The EHEALTH Discussion List is a forum for the professional discussion of EHEALTH companies, products, services, capitalization, valuation, legalities and ethics.

Examples of relevant topics include the following:

  • national and international e-health law
  • ehealth ethics including security and confidentiality
  • ehealth usage and demographic data
  • technological advances and developments
  • positive and negative influences of ehealth in the lives of users
  • new additions to terminology and symbols related to new behavioral patterns resulting from ehealth
  • positive and negative influences of current and innovative forms of ehealth technology
  • funding resources in both the private and public sectors
  • innovative uses of ehealth technology to treat identified disorders
  • reviews of resource sites, newsletters, and mail groups related to ehealth
  • ehealth conference and meeting announcements
  • valuation and capitalization issues for ehealth businesses
  • discussion of the role of interpersonal dynamics in ehealth technologies
  • bandwidth, transmission, and encryption issues
  • interface design, hardware and access routes
  • medical records design and usage
  • comparative role of system integrators and equipment manufacturers
  • pilot project design, implementation and outcome assessment

III. If You Choose to Participate

  • You do not have to be a trained mental health professional to participate on this list. We encourage all points of view. We ask however that you do not hold yourself out to be a practicing clinician, either by implication or omission of fact, unless you are so credentialed.
  • Post a short introduction stating how you'd like to be addressed, what you do, your goals for joining us or what you are seeking from this list. Giving the specifics of your credentials, training, years in practice, and the exact nature of the service you deliver is required.
  • If possible, develop and use a "signature file" with your email that includes the state or country from which you work, your license number if you are licensed, and your full name and email address. If you are licensed, you must post your license number in your signature. Keep your signature files limited to no more than six lines. If you are unable to use a signature file, please post your name and credentials at the end of each post.

IV. Ehealth Policy Statements

Violation of any of the following policies will result in immediate and possibly permanent removal from the EHEALTH list:

  • Members must clearly identify themselves in every post. Members are not permitted to use an alias or otherwise conceal their true identity.
  • No subscriber shall post solicitations nor seek the professional services of another on the EHEALTH list. Such exchanges shall be considered to be "spamming or off topic". Such spamming and off topic mail includes any attempt to solicit clients, customers, dissertation subjects or therapists.
  • Anyone on moderated status who re-subscribes under another name/address to circumvent the moderated status, regardless of their motive, will be permanently unsubscribed.
  • Use of this list is for legal, non-prejudicial purposes only, as defined by state and federal law in Nevada and the United States.
  • Baiting, taunting, name-calling and general disrespect for the points of view of others will not be tolerated.
  • EHEALTH subscribers agree to adhere to a "love it or leave it" policy. If subscribers do not agree with EHEALTH policies, they are free to leave the list at any time.
  • EHEALTH policy statements are updated at the sole discretion of the EHEALTH owner, Pioneer Development Resources, Inc.

V. Enforcing List Rules

To facilitate respectful discussion, essential Netiquette policies will be enforced in the following manner at the sole discretion of the list administrator(s):

  • First you will receive a courtesy warning from the list administrator, and possibly asked to refrain from posting to the list for a week. If you post nonetheless, you will be permanently removed from the list.
  • If for any reason you post a public complaint about the courtesy warning, however veiled, you will be permanently removed from the list.
  • If asked to refrain from posting for a week and you comply, you may simply begin posting to the list again. However if the unacceptable behavior is repeated, you will be permanently excluded from participation in the list without further warning.

VI. Netiquette

Holding a discussion online is vastly different than a face to face discussion. It is easy to misinterpret a comment that is read as you are missing facial expressions, body language and vocal inflections. This list employs a series of guidelines we call "Netiquette" to help make your message come across as you had intended - in a word, polite. We ask that you please read over and adhere to the guidelines posted on this webpage.

VII. Warning and Disclaimer

This list is not intended to be a replacement for professional consultation or supervision, nor is it a professional publication. Individuals seeking professional journal references would do well to seek information in traditionally recognized sources. It is also not intended to offer direct psychological advice or supervision to any individual. As a condition of participation, you must accept responsibility for your own reactions and related behavior, regardless of what you read from this list.

Neither EHEALTH, the list owner, administrators, assistants or their delegates; nor contributors can be held liable in any way for any information and/or data made available, or omitted, from any and all information distributed through this forum. Information distributed is not checked for accuracy. By continuing to remain subscribed to EHEALTH, you agree to hold harmless the all above named parties against any and all liability for any action that you may or may not take; and any and all other consequences regarding all postings, regardless of the cause, effects, or fault of any of the parties. We are all here to help one another and our respective professions, but will act and accept full responsibility for ourselves as individual agents.

VIII. Ehealth Webpages

EHEALTH has a web page. There you will find these guidelines as well as listserv commands, list owner policy statement and access to the EHEALTH archives.

IX. Ehealth List Owner

The EHEALTH List is owned by Pioneer Development Resources, Inc., an independent Nevada corporation with Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. as CEO and President. As such, she serves as the list administrator for EHEALTH Email Discussion List.

X. LISTSERV: How to Operate

It is important that you understand the difference between the two listserv email addresses. Messages that are intended for the list to read are sent to EHEALTH@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG and messages intended to send commands to the listserver are sent to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. Please note the difference between these two addresses.

How to send a message to the group:

Send an email to: EHEALTH@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

How to get one email per day containing all list messages for that day:

Send an email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. In the body of the message, type: SET EHEALTH Digest

How to stop getting messages ~without~ unsubscribing:

Send an email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. In the body of the message, type: SET EHEALTH NOMAIL

When you are ready to resume getting mail, send: SET EHEALTH MAIL

How to unsubscribe:

Send an email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. In the body of the message, type: SIGNOFF EHEALTH

How to send a ~command~ to the Listserv:

Send an email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. In the body of the message, type: SET EHEALTH

The following are possible options:

Option Description

ACK / NOACK / MSG - Acknowledgements for postings
CONCEAL / NOCONCEAL - Hide yourself from REVIEW
Mail / NOMail - Toggle receipt of mail
MIME / NOMIME - Prefer/avoid MIME format
REPro / NOREPro - Copy of your own postings

DIGests/INDex/NODIGests/NOINDex - Ask for digests

Options for mail headers of incoming postings (choose one):

FULLhdr - "Full" (normal) mail headers
IETFhdr - Internet-style headers
SHORThdr - Short headers
DUALhdr - Dual headers, useful with PC or Mac mail programs
SUBJecthdr - Normal header with list name in subject line

Commands that will get you more information:

HELP E-health - Obtain a list of commands
REV E-health - To see who is subscribed to the specified list

More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV Reference Card, which you can retrieve by sending an INFO REFCARD command to the Listserv at LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

XI. Subscribing

Click here to subscribe.

If you have questions of a technical nature you may send them to:

Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. -- EHEALTH Administrator

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