e-Health promises and challenges: Some ethical considerations

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 164, Issue , 2011, Pages 148-153

  Kluge, Eike Henner W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consent; EHealth; Ethics; Liability; Privacy

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA PRIVACY; INTEROPERABILITY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PRODUCT LIABILITY;

CONSENT; COST EFFECTIVE; ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EHEALTH;

CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; LEGAL LIABILITY;

CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; OUTSOURCED SERVICES;

EID: 79953047304     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-709-3-148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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