1. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
Important aspects and understanding ethical and legal management in work areas

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Providing good patient care and avoiding harm are the cornerstones of ethical practice.
Healthcare workers want to do the right thing, but it isn’t always clear how they should
proceed. Every situation is somewhat different, and ethical dilemmas can arise even when a
hospital has policies in place to address them.

3. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
How do you see yourself overwhelmed with your
decisions, who will listen to you, how keep peace of mind?

4. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
 Ethical dilemmas
 need additional discussion relate to opt-out provisions that exclude patients from
electronic record storage, sale of DE identified patient data by EHR vendors,
 adolescent control of access to their data, and use of electronic data repositories to
redesign the nation's health care delivery and payment mechanisms on the basis of
statistical analyses.
 Understand the overwhelming financial question is who should pay for EHR
implementation .
Dalrymple, P. W. (2011). Data, information, knowledge: The emerging field of
health informatics.

5. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Susan A. Sallaaday, RN,PhD www.springnet.com (2000)
Ethical Problems, how to listen, answer, react to situations

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Value Attitude Ethical Behavior
Wisdom and Knowledge
Experience promotes wisdom that helps convert
information to knowledge.
Using knowledge to solve problems ethically
and to do what is right.
Self-Control
Self-control means effectively managing reactions to
challenging situations and temptations.
Putting personal motivations aside and acting
with objectivity by doing what is right.
Justice
Acting justly and fairly is a long-term driver of ethical
behavior; remember the “Golden Rule.”
Establishing just and mutually agreed upon
criteria and administering them fairly to all
people.
Transcendence
The belief in a power and source outside oneself reduces
self-serving actions and increases humility.
Putting institutional and/or stakeholder
interests above self interests. Identifying a
personal purpose that is aligned with
organizational mission.
Love and Kindness
Treating people with kindness helps increase the reservoir
of positive affection and love.
Recognizing and encouraging others for their
contributions.
Courage and Integrity
Ethics requires the courage to do the right things
consistently without regard to personal consequences.
Making unpopular decisions based on fair
consideration of the facts.
Kerns, Charles, PHD,MA, Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace (2010)
Table 1: Values —> Attitude —> Ethical Behavior Chain

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 1-Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
 2-Balancing profit with serving patients and providing charity care.
 3-Wrestling with equal treatment vs. VIP treatment for donors and other influential
people.
 4-Managing pediatric and geriatric patients who may not have decision-making
capacity.
 5-Addressing nurses’ moral distress about providing care with minimal benefit.
Five Ethical Challenges in Healthcare
Larson, Jennifer, INTELECOM-contributor
March 6, 2013

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