CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS: ETHICS, EVALUATION AND STANDARDS

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS: ETHICS, EVALUATION AND STANDARDS

This article discusses the ethical issues involved in consumer health informatics -specifically those issues surrounding the provision of medical information for patients on the World Wide Web. The discussion includes concerns and suggestions relating to: quality control and error avoidance, Interne...

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Autores principales: Berner,Eta S, Singh Sandhu,Amarinder, Goodman,Kenneth W
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile 2005
Materias:
Bioethics
Caribbean
computing
consumer health informatics
developing countries
evaluation
Latin America
patient education
progressive caution
World Wide Web
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-569X2005000200004
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Sumario:This article discusses the ethical issues involved in consumer health informatics -specifically those issues surrounding the provision of medical information for patients on the World Wide Web. The discussion includes concerns and suggestions relating to: quality control and error avoidance, Internet governance and Web site responsibility, and intellectual property and control. These issues are argued to be of exceptional importance in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean

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