Ethics and Information Technology

✍ Scribed by James G. Anderson, Kenneth Goodman

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents 130 case studies illustrating ethical and social issues that arise from the increasing use of computers in medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, and the allied health professions. The rapid development of health informatics offers a rich array of issues and challenges to academics, clinicians, and system developers. These issues involve threats to privacy and confidentiality, misuse of clinical and genetic information, risks to patients of bias and discrimination, erosion of the practitioner-patient relationship, threats to the autonomy of the health professional, and compromises to the quality of care provided. The use of case studies is well known in medicine, nursing, public health, epidemiology, and other health education programs. This book presents selected cases with annotation and commentaries that illustrate ethical concerns and social problems in the use of computers in medicine.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Series Preface......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction: Case Studies in Ethics and Health Informatics......Page 18
2 The Business of Cyber Health Care......Page 26
Health Services Online......Page 31
Virtual House Calls......Page 38
Sale of Body Parts......Page 43
Online Medical Records......Page 45
Pharmaceutical Products......Page 48
Mental Health Services......Page 54
Cyberchondriasis......Page 56
3 Contents Consumer Health Information: Let the Viewer Beware (Caveat Viewor)......Page 64
Inaccurate Information......Page 68
Unverified Health Claims......Page 70
Conflicts of Interest......Page 73
4 Privacy and Confidentiality......Page 80
Breaches of Security......Page 90
Inappropriate Use of Health Information......Page 96
Secondary Use of Medical Information......Page 103
Data Sharing......Page 110
Rating Physicians......Page 116
Protection of Patients’ Privacy......Page 119
Hackers......Page 121
Privacy Online......Page 122
5 The Challenge of Bioinformatics......Page 130
Issues in Bioinformatics......Page 134
6 Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm......Page 140
Failure of Health Information Systems......Page 148
Information Systems That Harm Patients......Page 161
7 Online Challenges for Human Subjects Research......Page 171
Clinical Trials......Page 174
The Doctor–Patient Relationship......Page 176
Research Ethics......Page 178
Appendices Ethical Standards for Health Web Sites......Page 182
Appendix 1 HON Code of Conduct (HONcode) for Medical and Health Web Sites......Page 183
Appendix 2 eHealth Code of Ethics......Page 185
Appendix 3 TRUSTe’s Consumer Privacy Protection Guidelines......Page 193
Appendix 4 TRUSTe Model Privacy Statement......Page 195
Appendix 5 Health Internet Ethics: Ethical Principles For Offering Internet Health Services to Consumers......Page 201
Appendix 6 Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet......Page 208
Appendix 7 Principles Governing AMA Publications Web Sites......Page 216
E......Page 228
S......Page 229
W......Page 230