Chapter 10

by Kathleen Mastrian, Dee McGonigle,

and Nedra Farcus
Ethical Applications of
Informatics
 Key Terms Defined
• Alternatives
• Antiprincipilism
• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Bio-Ethics
 Key Terms Defined
• Bio-Informatics
• Care Ethics
• Casuistry Approach
• Confidentiality
• Consequences
 Key Terms Defined
• Decision Making
• Decision Support
• Duty
• Ethical Decision Making
• Ethical Dilemma
 Key Terms Defined
• Ethical, Social and Legal implications (ESLI)
• Ethicist
• Ethics
• Eudiamonistic
• Fidelity
 Key Terms Defined
• Good
• Harm
• Justice
• Liberty
• Moral
 Key Terms Defined
• Moral Dilemmas
• Moral Rights
• Negligence
• Nicomachean
• Nonmaleficence
 Key Terms Defined
• Principlism
• Privacy
• Rights
• Security
• Self-control
 Key Terms Defined
• Standard
• Truth
• Uncertainty
• Values
• Veracity
 Key Terms Defined
• Virtue
• Virtue Ethics
• Wisdom
 Ethical Decisions
• Ethics
• Bioethics
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Morals
• Ethical Decision Making
 Theoretical Approaches
• Theoretical approaches and healthcare
ethics
• The Hippocratic tradition
• Principlism
• Anti-Principlism
 Theoretical Approaches
• The Casuistry Approach 
• The Husted Bioethical decision-making
Model
• The Virtue Ethics Approach
• Care Ethics
 Theoretical Approaches
• The consensus-based approach
• The value of different theoretical ethical
methods
• The importance of diverse ethical insight
 Applying Ethics to Informatics
• The Information Age
• Language Barriers
• Informatics Practitioners
• Healthcare Professionals and Ethical
Approaches
 Applying Ethics to Informatics
• Analysis and Ethics
• The use of expert systems
• Facing Ethical Dilemmas
• The Goal of an Ethical System
 Applying Ethics to Informatics
• An Ethical Dilemma
• Bio-informatics
• Making Ethical Decisions
• Practicing Ethics
 Applying Ethics to Informatics
• Virtue ethics
• The Responsibility of Ethics
• The International Council of Nurses Code of
Ethics
• Science/Technology Advances and the
future
 Thought Provoking Questions
• Identify moral dilemmas in healthcare
informatics that would best be approached
with the use of an ethical decision making
framework.
• Discuss the evolving health care ethics
traditions within their social and historical
context.
 Thought Provoking Questions
• Differentiate among the theoretical
approaches to health care ethics as they
relate to the theorists perspectives of
individuals and their relationships.
• Select one of the healthcare ethics theories
and support its use in examining ethical
issues in healthcare informatics.
 Thought Provoking Questions
• Select one of the healthcare ethics theories
and argue against its use in examining
ethical issues in healthcare informatics.