期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
卷 82, 期 12, 页码 1136-1143出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.08.010
关键词
Electronic health records; Ethics; Medical records systems; Computerized; Patient access to records; Physician-patient relations; Privacy
资金
- US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the State HIE - Challenge Grant Program [90HT0054/01]
- NIH [UL1RR025761]
- IU Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Health Research (CLEAR)
Objective: There are benefits and risks of giving patients more granular control of their personal health information in electronic health record (EHR) systems. When designing EHR systems and policies, informaticists and system developers must balance these benefits and risks. Ethical considerations should be an explicit part of this balancing. Our objective was to develop a structured ethics framework to accomplish this. Methods: We reviewed existing literature on the ethical and policy issues, developed an ethics framework called a Points to Consider (P2C) document, and convened a national expert panel to review and critique the P2C. Results: We developed the P2C to aid informaticists designing an advanced query tool for an electronic health record (EHR) system in Indianapolis. The P2C consists of six questions (Points) that frame important ethical issues, apply accepted principles of bioethics and Fair Information Practices, comment on how questions might be answered, and address implications for patient care. Discussion: The P2C is intended to clarify what is at stake when designers try to accommodate potentially competing ethical commitments and logistical realities. The P2C was developed to guide informaticists who were designing a query tool in an existing EHR that would permit patient granular control. While consideration of ethical issues is coming to the forefront of medical informatics design and development practices, more reflection is needed to facilitate optimal collaboration between designers and ethicists. This report contributes to that discussion. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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