A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Need for eHealth Ethics
Authors: Minna M. Rantanen, Juhani Naskali, Jani Koskinen
Editors: Hongxiu Li, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Roland Trill, Reima Suomi, Yevgeniya Amelina
Conference name: International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society
Publication year: 2018
Journal: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Book title : Well-Being in the Information Society. Fighting Inequalities
Series title: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume: 907
First page : 221
Last page: 232
ISBN: 978-3-319-97930-4
eISBN: 978-3-319-97931-1
ISSN: 1865-0929
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97931-1_18
Web address : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-97931-1_18
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/34272200
The healthcare is an area where ethics has justifiably gained a central position, and this fact has acted as a safeguard for people and society. However, the increasing use of information technology has brought forth new kind of situations that the traditional medical ethics approach has not faced before. There is need for a new approach of eHealth ethics that covers the needs for modern healthcare to ensure that the ethicality will be ensured today and future likewise. We argue that a fruitful approach for this is the synthesis of traditional medical ethics and IS-ethics. In this article we look the four principles of medical ethics together with IS-ethics approaches by Moor and Brey to see what kind of values should be protected and what are the needs for justified use of information technology in healthcare.
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