[Visiting Hungarian medical homepages and portals]

The Internet is a rapidly expanding network that handles miscellaneous data. Everyone or every organisation can join to it. The Internet covers more than 800 millions of documents and it is a hard task to find the relevant and up-to-date information among them. Search engines, portals and virtual catalogues back the retrieval of data.

The aim of this study is to give insight into the presence of Hungarian health institutions on the Internet, and we try to find information about the quality of these Internet resources.

Based upon the analysis of 72 Web Pages we drew the conclusion that the Hungarian medical homepages are not prepared well enough to supply content services. There are, however, some examples to very good solutions. The number of medical portals containing exact, up-to-date information is growing continuously.