Our Awards & Honors
We are thrilled that our small woman owned business was selected in such select company of the Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, National Cancer Institute, the American College of OB-GYN, the Archives of Family Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic. Several years ago, both the ICN and the Mayo Clinic were finalists in the Global Information Infrastructure Awards! The ICN is humbled by the honor and absolutely thrilled that the quality of information on our site was rated so highly. For the past fifteen years, we have worked hard to provide factual, balanced and evidence based medicine information about IC on the web. We also note that we were the only patient driven support website who received this recognition for all urologic conditions studied! Source: Routh J, et al. Does a Controversial Topic Affect the Quality of Urologic Information on the Internet? Urology. 2011 Sep 24. |
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September 2011 - ICN & Jill Osborne honored with a 2011 Wellsphere Health Award. This award recognizes the top health organizations and individuals that make an extraordinary impact on the lives of patients.The award program recognize those entities that move forward the overall progress of such issues as health research, understanding, empathy, inspiration, awareness, accessibility, and networking. The ICN is delighted to accept this honor! |
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2007 - The IBS Tales Hope Awards are presented to websites that offer positive support and encouragement to anyone suffering from a chronic medical problem. In particular, the awards recognise websites that offer accurate information and resources for patients, that encourage sufferers to search for new treatments and hope and that refuse to accept inadequate medical advice or doctors who tell us to "learn to live with it"! |
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June 2005 - ICN Featured as Pelvic Health Resource by the Sunnybrook and Women's Health College in Toronto Canada (Womenshealthmatters.ca) |
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The ICN web site has received the NetWellness Consumer Health Excellence in Information Award! |
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The ICN received the highest review possible (a five star rating) from OBGYN.net. |
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The ICN received the highest rating possible from the Medical Resource Reviews Database! Quality Rating (0-4) is assigned to each site as an average of the opinions of three of our staff MD reviewers, based on site comprehensiveness, clarity, layout and visibility on the Web. |
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The ICN was selected as a recipient of the highly regarded "Editor's Choice Award" from HealingWell.com. This award is reserved for selected health websites that exhibit 1) exceptional web design, 2) reliable and quality health information on disease and disorder topics, and 3) patient accessibility and support. |
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For having exceeded the rigorous review required by Health A to Z |
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The IC Network was named a Health finalist in the elite Global Information Infrastructure Awards, in the select company of the Mayo Clinic, AEGIS & Babycenter. |
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The ICN was a health semifinalist in the 1998 GII Awards. |
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MedSite Gold Status |
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Four Star Recognition from Mental Health Net. |
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Medical Award for Excellence E-Medic On-Line |
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The Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence |
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HealthLinks Net Select Site |
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MedExplorer Top Rated Site |
September 2011 - In the September edition of Urology, the Interstitial Cystitis Network website was named one of the two highest quality websites for interstitial cystitis on the web by a team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Urology (Childrens Hospital). Medscape, a website that offers educational information for physicians and medical care providers, was our co-honoree for their information on IC.
Revised: September 25, 2011
