Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology: Intelligent Machines and the Transformation of Health Care
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2nd UK ed., 1/14/2016
EAN 9781107624733, ISBN10: 1107624738
Paperback, 192 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm
Language: English
Information technology is transforming the practices of medicine, nursing, and biomedical research. Computers can now render diagnoses and prognoses more accurately than humans. The concepts of privacy and confidentiality are evolving as data moves from paper to silicon to clouds. Big data promises financial wealth, as well as riches of information and benefits to science and public health. Online access and mobile apps provide patients with an unprecedented connection to their health and health records. This transformation is as unsettling as it is exhilarating. This unique new book is essential for anyone who uses computers in health care, biomedical research or public health, and cares about the ethical issues that arise in their work. With chapters spanning issues from professionalism and quality to mobile health and bioinformatics, it establishes what will become the 'core curriculum' in ethics and health informatics, a growing field which encourages truly inter- and multidisciplinary inquiry.
1. Information technologies and twenty-first-century clinical practice
ethics and the electronic health record
2. Ancient professions and intelligent machines
the ethical challenge of computational decision support
3. Health privacy, data protection, and trust
4. Professionalism, programming, and pedagogy
5. Safety, standards, and interoperability
6. The e-Health industry
markets, vendors and regulators
7. Digital health
ubiquitous, virtual, remote, robotic
8. Biomedical research from genomes to populations
big data and the growth of knowledge
Appendix A. AMIA's Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct
Appendix B. The IMIA Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals
References
Index.