Title 4. ethics ✅

2/11/2024 2 Introduction ....  Hospital Information systems and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and e-health applications is becoming widely implemented or accepted  Motivated by the great benefits to patient care, and health care in general  However having medical records on-line, is increasing the risk of exposing private and sensitive information to unauthorized
2/11/2024 3 Ethical Issues in Health Informatics:  Many assume that the confidentiality of electronically stored patient information is the most important ethical issue in health informatics. Although confidentiality and privacy are indeed of vital interest and significant concern, there are other important ethical issues in field including:
2/11/2024 4 Ethical Issues in Health Informatics continue...  Confidentiality of electronic patient information  Proper selection/use of informatics tools in clinical settings  Determination of who uses these tools  The role of system evaluation  The obligations of system developers, maintainers, vendors  The appropriate standards for interacting with industry  The use of computers to track clinical outcomes to guide future practice