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Ethics in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes

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This chapter introduces and reviews scholarship on ethical issues in health information technology. It identifies the ethical foundations of health informatics and then addresses a suite of key challenges, issues and controversies. These include the question of appropriate use and users, including “The Standard View”; standards for education and system developers; system evaluation; privacy and confidentiality; human subjects research; bioinformatics; vendors of electronic health records and their duties; managed care and traditional relationships; consumer health informatics and personal health records; and legal and regulatory matters, including the question of regulation and governance.

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Reid Cushman, PhD, contributed to this chapter in an earlier edition. His comments are gratefully acknowledged.

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Goodman, K.W., Miller, R.A. (2021). Ethics in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes. In: Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino, J.J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58721-5_12

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