Anderson / Goodman Ethics and Information Technology

A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-22488-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Health Informatics

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 including threats to privacy and confidentiality, misuse of clinical and genetic information, risks to patients of bias and discrimination, etc. Appendices address ethical standards for Websites and the Internet, and the principles for offering Internet health services to consumers, and the quality assessment of Internet health information.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, James G.

Goodman, Kenneth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Case Studies in Ethics and Health Informatics.- The Business of Cyber Health Care.- Consumer Health Information: Let the Viewer Beware (Caveat Viewor).- Privacy and Confidentiality.- The Challenge of Bioinformatics.- Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm.- Online Challenges for Human Subjects Research.