HLST 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Control Arm, Medicalization, Plastic Surgery

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Discuss benefits of health informatics for the canadian healthcare system. Examine regulation, standards and guidelines and codes of conduct prevent ethical. Identify the ethical principles challenged by health technology breaches. For each type, identify the benefits to healthcare services: telemedicine, telecare and telehealth, computer based patient records, electronic communication (email, skype, personal digital assistants (pda, e-health, data warehouses and clinical data repositories (cdr) Two conditions must be met: two or more ethical principles are relevant to the situation, the principles make conflicting demands upon the people involved in the situation. Beneficence-overall health informatics improves quality of patient care. Threats to autonomous choice when data sets replace human interaction; lacks of informed consent. Fidelity-ease of access to information (pt. records, billing records, encription cords etc. ) may violate duty to maintain confidentiality due to security breaches or unauthorized access to information. Justice-inequitable access to information, services or equipment. Threats to confidentiality of patient information (pope, 2015)

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