Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 293-309

  Goodman, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS); Health information technology; Information technology tools in ethical optimized use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889301555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470281819.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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