Healthcare is a field where the influence of ethics needs to be strong.
It should also cover the area of information system development in healthcare.
Great amounts or research about ethics, healthcare and information system de-
velopment and combinations of those can be found. However, the actual devel-
opment of healthcare information systems has a serious lack of understanding
of  ethical  codes  of  healthcare  and  it  seems  that  financial  values  may  bypass
ethical  ones.  Several  examples  of  the  consequences  to  healthcare  information
systems, in which financial values in conjunction with technological determin-
ism are controlling the decisions, are presented and critiqued.
The  four  principles  of  medicine:  beneficence,  non-maleficence,  autonomy
and justice are seen as a promising basis for analysis of information system de-
velopment in healthcare. The four principles seem to be suitable for healthcare
professionals and – as discussed in this paper - for information system develop-
ers.  Hence  these  principles  could  be  held  as  the  common  ethical  ground  for
both. If these principles could be put into actual use in information system de-
velopment  of  healthcare  sector  many  problems  faced  would  be  solved,  or  at
least some of the main problems in it can be revealed.