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Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm

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Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition

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In the future, health care providers will need to interact directly with clinical information systems to take full advantage of the capacity of these systems for organization of information and clinical practice suport. This will require physicians and other providers to change the way they have traditionally recorded, retrieved, and utilized clinical data. This chapter discusses the major advantages resulting from physician use of clinical information systems, the barriers to the acceptance and use of these systems, methods that may increase their acceptance and use, and the ethical imperative for evaluation.

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    James G. Anderson PhD

  2. Ethics Programs, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33101, USA

    Kenneth W. Goodman PhD

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(2002). Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm. In: Anderson, J.G., Goodman, K.W. (eds) Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22488-6_6

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