I have a research paper where I need to write a paragraph answering each question. The instructions are to go to the American Medical Assocation's web site at ama-assn and use the search button on the upper right to look for ethical opinions oncomputer confidentiality.
Based upon what you find answer the following eight questions and explain your answers:
1. Should corrections be date and time stamped?
2. When should the patient be advised of the existence of computerized databases containing medical information about the patient?
3. When should the patient be notified of purging of archaic or inaccurate information?
4. When should the computerized medical database be online to the computer terminal?
5. When the computer service bureau destroys or erases records, should the erasure be verified by the bureau to the physician?
6. Should indiviuals and organizations with access to the databases be identified to the patient?
7. Does the AMA ethics opinion mention encryption as a technique for security?
*. What does the ethics opinion say about disclosure by recipients of authorized data to third parties?
Any help please. I am really frustrated and can't find any articles or the right information for any of these questions.
Search results for
#1 = http://search.ama-assn.org/Search/query.html?qc=public+amnews+pubs&qt=Should+corrections+be+date+and+time+stamped
#2 = http://search.ama-assn.org/Search/query.html?charset=iso-8859-1&qc=amnews+public+pubs&qt=patient+be+advised+of+the+existence+of+computerized+database
Etc.
You'll clearly need to do a lot of reading, but some of these seem obvious to me. For example, #3 -- before the purging takes place!! The reasons should be obvious.
EX: When my son was applying for an appointment to a military academy, one of the things we had to do was get copies of all his medical records -- all of them, back to the day he was born, 16 years' worth of medical records. All were available, even though I had to pay for the different medical offices/hospitals to make the copies we needed.