Ethics , Privacy & Security Flashcards
encompasses issues of proper and improper behaviour, honourable actions, and of right and wrong.
Healthcare informatics
in medicine, nursing, human subject research, psychology, and other related fields continue to become more twisted and complex, but some overarching issues are common among them.
Ethical questions
on the other hand, are less familiar, even if some of them have been controversial for decades.
Ethical issues in health informatics,
also raises questions about various legal and regulatory requirements.
Informatics
should be used in clinical practice only after
appropriate evaluation of its efficacy and the documentation that it performs its intended task at an acceptable cost in time and money.
computer program
should be preceded by adequate training and instruction, which should include review of applicable product evaluations.
informatics tools
Users of most clinical systems should be
health professionals
is defined as either allowing individuals to make their own decisions in response to a particular societal context, or as the idea that no one human person does not have the authority nor should have power over another human person.
Autonomy
must maintain respect for patient autonomy,
and this entails certain restrictions about the access, content, and ownership of records.
Electronic health records (EHR)
These two principles are respectively defined as “do good” and “do no harm.” In health informatics, beneficence relates most significantly with the use of the stored data in the EHR system, and non -maleficence with data protection.
Beneficence and Non-maleficence
will contain substantial amounts of raw data, and
great potential exists for the conduction of groundbreaking biomedical and public health research. These kinds of research will be beneficial to both the individual patient, and to the entirety of society.
Deeply-integrated EHR systems
should be developed with the capacity to allow patients to release information from their EHRs which can be valuable to researchers and scientists.
new EHR systems
on the other hand, involves the ethical behaviour required of anyone handling data and information, as prescribed by the International Medical Informatics Association (2016). It covers seven principles: privacy, openness, security, access, legitimate infringement, least intrusive alternatives, and accountability.
Informatics Ethics
All persons and group of persons have a fundamental right to privacy, and hence to control over the collection, storage, access, use, communication, manipulation, linkage and disposition of data about themselves.
Principle of Information-Privacy and Disposition
The collection, storage, access, use, communication, manipulation, linkage and disposition of personal data must be disclosed in an appropriate and timely fashion to the subject or subjects of those data.
Principle of Openness
Data that have been legitimately collected about persons or groups of persons should be protected by all reasonable and appropriate measures against loss degradation, unauthorized destruction, access,
use, manipulation, linkage, modification or communication.
Principle of Security
The subjects of electronic health records have the right of access to those records and the right
to correct them with respect to its accurateness, completeness and relevance.
Principle of Access
The fundamental right of privacy and of control over the collection, storage, access, use, manipulation, linkage, communication and disposition of personal data is conditioned only by the legitimate, appropriate and relevant data-needs of a free, responsible and democratic society, and by the equal and competing rights of others.
Principle of Legitimate Infringement
Any infringement of the privacy rights of a person or group of persons, and of their right of control over data about them, may only occur in the least intrusive fashion and with a minimum of interference with the rights of the affected parties.
Principle of the Least Intrusive Alternative
Any infringement of the privacy rights of a person or group of persons, and of the right to control
over data about them, must be justified to the latter in good time and in an appropriate fashion.
Principle of Accountability
heavily relies on use of software to store and
process information. As a result, activities carried out by software developers might significantly affect end-users.
Software Ethics
has ethical duties and responsibilities to the following stakeholders: society, institution and employees, and the profession.
The software developer