Practicing preventive ethics, protecting patients: challenges of the electronic health record.
Implementation of guidelines regarding breaches of electronic health information requires an anticipatory stance and physician and patient education regarding security and monitoring measures and methods of redress. Adopting a preventive ethics, rather than a crisis management, model may also increase physician awareness of how the information they choose to include and privilege within the health record may expose patients to added harms if not done mindfully.
Satkoske
Valerie B
VB
University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. valbridget@aol.com
Parker
Lisa S
LS
D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000941:ethics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000941:ethics; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States