Lesson 14

• Has led to the tendency of most practitioners to rely on the use of mechanical aids throughout the process of providing patient treatment


  Modernization
• This continues to become more twisted and complex

  ethical questions
• This might be the most popular source of debates, but the rest of the field is surrounded with other ethical issues of significant concern

  privacy and confidentiality
• This should only be used in clinical practice only after appropriate evaluation of its efficacy and documentation that it performs its intended task at an acceptable cost in time and money


  computer program
• It is the application of principles of ethics to the domain of health informatics


  Health Informatics ethics
• These are developed in order to assist in the dispensation of healthcare or other supplementary services

  information system
• It is defined as allowing individuals to make their own decision in response to a particular societal complex

  autonomy
• must maintain respect for patient autonomy, and this entails a certain restriction about the access, content, and ownership of the records


  EHR
• Two principles that is defined as "do good" and "do not harm"

  Beneficence and Non Maleficence
• These are the substantial amounts of raw data, and great potential exists for the conduction of groundbreaking biomedical and public health research


  EHR systems
• Involves ethical behavior required of anyone handling data information

  Information ethics