e-Health Ethics

Identifying and Ranking E-Health Cods of Medical Ethics

Background: The spread of electronic health has led to challenging ethical issues. This paper aims to identify the e-health codes of ethics based on virtue approach in hospitals and prioritize them in order to help managers for better understanding the nature of ethical challenges of e-health. Method: This research is an applied-descriptive study, in detail it is a single cross-survey. Statisti...

Ethics and e-medicine.

The Ethics of e-Medicine

‘E-medicine’, i.e. the possibilities for patients to have access to medical information and medical consultation at Internet raises new ethical issues. In this paper e-medicine is discussed in terms of how it will affect the patient-doctor-relation, patient autonomy and the moral and professional responsibility of doctors.

e-Government Ethics : a Synergy of Computer Ethics, Information Ethics, and Cyber Ethics

Ethics has become an important part in the interaction among humans being. This paper specifically discusses applied ethics as one type of ethics. There are three applied ethics that will be reviewed in this paper, i.e. computer ethics, information ethics, and cyber ethics. There are two aspects of the three applied ethics that were reviewed, i.e. their definition and the issues associated with...

Health and Wellness Policy Ethics

This perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. Many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. The authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. There are a wide vari...