Health informatics: Ethical issues

Health Care Manager

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-15

  Layman, Elizabeth ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer based patient record; Data mining; Data warehouse; Ethics; Health informatics; Infoethics; Informatics; Internet; Medical ethics; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038192463     PISSN: 15255794     EISSN: 1550512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126450-200301000-00002     Document Type: Article

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