i-healthbooker

i-healthbooker is a communication and collaboration tool. By its very nature it builds a community of individuals many of whom will not be known to you. The purpose of i-healthbooker is to create a network of healthcare professionals to enable information sharing, communication and collaboration. Part of this entails the optional building of a personal profile and blog site and ability to contribute to discussions, join groups and generally exchange information with any or all members of the entire community. The community will contain other healthcare professionals but will also contain other stakeholder groups such as healthcare providers and patients.

i-healthbooker is not intended as a social network for organising your personal life and we do not require you to enter any sensitive data such as address, date of birth, financial data, gender, photographs etc. Please be aware that if you do enter any sensitive data it may potentially be viewable by others depending upon the privacy settings applicable to the place you enter the data. We recommend you use other services such as Facebook, MySpace etc for personal social networking.

In general, even though privacy and security setting are available for you to control access to the information you enter, we recommend that you consider the default status of all data entered as public, meaning it could potentially be viewed by all members of the community. As this is a professional network it is expected that the content you enter will be considered and respectful of your colleagues and free of abuse of any kind. Tools exist on the system for other members to report any content they feel is inappropriate. If content has to be removed because it is offensive or inappropriate in anyway your account may be suspended.


The information we receive
Depending upon the role(s) you have within i-healthbooker, any or all of the following types of data may be entered on i-healthbooker:

• Name, email address and account credentials
• Data entered on social networking pages: group memberships, group discussions, events (dates, description, discussions), networks, professional profile data, profile image.
• Blog items
• Pages
• Messages
• Wall comments
• Pathways
• Provider details
• Service specifications, including tariff prices
• Clinic descriptions and times
• Referral data
• Service feedback data
• Any other data submitted

How we look after the information we receive
All data will be held securely in the i-healthbooker database and only shared within the application according to the privacy settings applied to the data (where available). All reasonable measures will be taken to ensure the safety and security of the data entered.
No on-line system can be absolutely secure. History has shown that even the most apparently robust systems can be compromised by the most determined of criminals. This is why we recommend that you do not use it to store any sensitive personal data. IQUS cannot give an absolute and unqualified guarantee that unauthorised access will never occur, but we do promise to use all possible safeguards to ensure the database is secure and privacy settings properly observed within the site.

What we do with the information we hold
We will never sell any of your data.
We may use information held about you to make any advertising on the site more relevant to you.
Where allowed by privacy settings data in your personal profile will be used to allow other members to find you for the purposes of network building.
Information you allow to be visible to others will be browsable and searchable within the site.