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Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition (Health Informatics) - Softcover

Book 9 of 84: Health Informatics

Anderson, James G.; Goodman, Kenneth

 
9781441929471: Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition (Health Informatics)

Synopsis

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.

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"‘Ethics and Information Technology’ ... a case-based approach to the ethical and social issues of health informatics, with a special focus on online health care and health information in the Internet and the World Wide Web. ... A collection of cases ... provides ideal study material covering an impressive variety of different facets of health information technology. Several questions guide the reader through the discussion ... . An extended appendix with ethical standards for health web sites complements this extremely timely and useful publication." (Georg Marckmann, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 7 (1), 2004)

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ISBN 10:  0387953086 ISBN 13:  9780387953083
Publisher: Springer, 2002
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