Chapter 12: Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty

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What I expect to learn?

I expect to learn Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty

Quote:

“Privacy is, most generally, the right entitlement or reasonable expectation people have that they are and will be secure from intrusion.”

Review:

The demands of privacy are intuitively straightforward and the consequences of its violation. Without a credible promise that privacy and confidentiality will be safeguarded, the task of fostering trust is frustrated. Privacy is, most generally, the right entitlement or reasonable expectation people have that they are and will be secure from intrusion. confidentiality applies to information for example is medical record. The use of computers in health care provides a solid example of the utility of applied or practical ethics to address challenges raised by the growth of technology. At least as much as the storing and transmitting of health data and information, which raise issues of privacy and confidentiality, the use of intelligent machines to analyze such data and information raises important questions regarding which uses and users are appropriate and which are not. Computers that can render diagnoses, including artificial-intelligence-based expert systems, have been with us for decades. A computer system that could sift physiologic and other data and compare a particular patient to the last hundred or thousand or ten thousand would provide potentially very useful information. We have several opportunities to catalog practical resources for professionals to make ethically optimized use of the tools of information technology.

What I Learned?

• ·        Challenges in Ethics,  
• ·        Healthcare technology 

Integrative Question:

1. What is the issue about privacy and confidentiality?
2. What is privacy?
3. What is confidentiality?
4. What can be concluded in health care using technology?
5. What is the issue behind the clinical support system?

Discussion:

What is the issue about privacy and confidentiality?

The demands of privacy are intuitively straightforward and the consequences of its violation.Without a credible promise that privacy and confidentiality will be safeguarded, the task of

fostering trust is frustrated.

What is privacy?

Privacy is, most generally, the right entitlement or reasonable expectation people

have that they are and will be secure from intrusion.

What is confidentiality?

confidentiality applies to information for example is medical record.

What can be concluded in health care using technology?

The use ofcomputers in health care provides a solid example of the utility of applied or practical ethics to address challenges raised by the growth of technology.

What is the issue behind the clinical support system?

At least as much as the storing and transmitting of health data and information, which raise issues of privacy and confidentiality, the use of intelligent machines to analyze such data and information raises important questions regarding which uses and users are appropriate and which are not.

What does diagnostic expert system states?

Computers that can render diagnoses, including artificial-intelligence-based expert systems, have been with us for decades.

What can be done in prognostic scoring system?

A computer system that could

sift physiologic and other data and compare a particular patient to the last hundred or thousand or ten thousand would provide potentially very useful information

What is the concluding part of the chapter?

We have several opportunities to catalog practical resources for professionals to make ethically optimized use of the tools of information technology.