Ethics, Privacy, and Security Flashcards
It is the application of the principles of ethics to the domain of health informatics.
Health Informatics Ethics (HIE)
What are the three main aspects of health informatics?
- Healthcare
- Informatics
- Software Information System
It involves the ethical behavior required of anyone handling data and information, as prescribed by the International Medical Informatics Association.
It covers seven principles; privacy, openness, security, access, legitimate infringement, least intrusive alternatives, and accountability.
Informatics Ethics
Activities should be carried out with the best interests of the society in mind. Developers should be mindful of the social impacts of software systems.
This includes disclosing any threats or known defects in software.
Software Ethics
It covers autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
General Ethics
It is defined as either allowing individuals to make their own decisions in response to a particular societal context or as an idea that no one human person does not have authority nor should have power over another human person.
Autonomy
These two principles are respectively defined as “do good” and “do no harm”.
Beneficence and non-maleficence
What are the seven principles that Informatics Ethics covers?
- Privacy
- Openness
- Security
- Access
- Infringement
- Least Intrusion
- Accountability
Enumeration:
Levels of security in a hospital information system
- Physical safeguards
- Administrative safeguards
- Technical safeguards
Enumeration:
Give key functions of the technological security tools
- Availability
- Accountability
- Perimeter Identification
- Controlling Access
- Comprehensibility and Control
Enumeration:
Key steps in laboratory information flow for a hospital patient (Part 1)
- Register patient
- Order test
- Collect sample
- Receive sample
Enumeration:
Key steps in laboratory information flow for a hospital patient (Part 2)
- Run sample
- Review results
- release results
- report results
it is often used interchangeably, but they are not synonymous.
Privacy, Confidentiality, Security
True or False
Privacy and confidentiality are often used interchangeably, but they are synonymous.
False - NOT SYNONYMOUS
True or False
Privacy generally applies to individuals and their aversion to eavesdropping.
True
