Chapter 10 by Kathleen Mastrian, Dee McGonigle, and Nedra Farcus

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Chapter 10by Kathleen Mastrian, Dee McGonigle,
and Nedra Farcus

• Ethical Applications of Informatics

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Key Terms Defined

• Alternatives
• Antiprincipilism
• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Bio-Ethics

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Key Terms Defined

• Bio-Informatics
• Care Ethics
• Casuistry Approach
• Confidentiality
• Consequences

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Key Terms Defined

• Decision Making
• Decision Support
• Duty
• Ethical Decision Making
• Ethical Dilemma

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Key Terms Defined

• Ethical, Social and Legal implications (ESLI)
• Ethicist
• Ethics
• Eudiamonistic
• Fidelity

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Key Terms Defined

• Good
• Harm
• Justice
• Liberty
• Moral

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Key Terms Defined

• Moral Dilemmas
• Moral Rights
• Negligence
• Nicomachean
• Nonmaleficence

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Key Terms Defined

• Principlism
• Privacy
• Rights
• Security
• Self-control

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Key Terms Defined

• Standard
• Truth
• Uncertainty
• Values
• Veracity

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Key Terms Defined

• Virtue
• Virtue Ethics
• Wisdom

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Ethical Decisions

• Ethics
• Bioethics
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Morals
• Ethical Decision Making

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Theoretical Approaches

• Theoretical approaches and healthcare ethics
• The Hippocratic tradition
• Principlism
• Anti-Principlism

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Theoretical Approaches

• The Casuistry Approach 
• The Husted Bioethical decision-making Model
• The Virtue Ethics Approach
• Care Ethics

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Theoretical Approaches

• The consensus-based approach
• The value of different theoretical ethical
  methods
• The importance of diverse ethical insight

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Applying Ethics to Informatics

• The Information Age
• Language Barriers
• Informatics Practitioners
• Healthcare Professionals and Ethical Approaches

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Applying Ethics to Informatics

• Analysis and Ethics
• The use of expert systems
• Facing Ethical Dilemmas
• The Goal of an Ethical System

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Applying Ethics to Informatics

• An Ethical Dilemma
• Bio-informatics
• Making Ethical Decisions
• Practicing Ethics

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Applying Ethics to Informatics

• Virtue ethics
• The Responsibility of Ethics
• The International Council of Nurses Code of
  Ethics
• Science/Technology Advances and the future

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Thought Provoking Questions

• Identify moral dilemmas in healthcare informatics
  that would best be approached with the use of an
  ethical decision making framework.
• Discuss the evolving health care ethics
  traditions within their social and historical
  context.

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Thought Provoking Questions

• Differentiate among the theoretical approaches to
  health care ethics as they relate to the
  theorists perspectives of individuals and their
  relationships.
• Select one of the healthcare ethics theories and
  support its use in examining ethical issues in
  healthcare informatics.

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Thought Provoking Questions

• Select one of the healthcare ethics theories and
  argue against its use in examining ethical issues
  in healthcare informatics.