Assignment for Ethics

1. Philippine Medical Association; Code of Ethics of the Medical Profession (Sept 2019)
Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines - Code of Practice (Sept 2020)
Antonio, C; Patdu I; Marcelo, A (2016) Health Information Privacy in the Philippines: Trends and Challenges in Policy and Practice; Acta Medica Philippina Vol 50,
No 4, 2016
Olvingson C et al (2003) Ethical Issues in Public Health Informtics: Implications for sytem design when sharing geographic information; Journal of Biomedical
Informatics 35: 178-185
Philips, W (2016) Ethical Controversies about Proper Health Informatics Practices: Health Management and Informatics. Jan/Feb 2015: 112:1, 53-57
Goodman, KW (2020). Ethics in Health Informatics. Yearbook of medical informatics 29(1), 26-31
National Privacy Commission (2014, August 14) Privacy Polica Office Advisory Opinion No 2017-42 Retrieved May 19, 2020
PHILIPPINE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONPHILIPPINE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
CODE OF ETHICSCODE OF ETHICS
Sec 3.7 - Professional responsibilities to patient - Safeguards
shall be applied when using electronic information systems
for compiling data
Sec 5.41 - Physicians shall not employ agents in the
solicitation and recruitment of patients
Sec 9.1 - Physicians should exercise sound judgement, self-
restraint and discipline when participating in activities from
companies which may be misconstrued as influencing their
prescribing practices.
DEVELOPERS, MAINTENANCE, VENDORS,DEVELOPERS, MAINTENANCE, VENDORS,
ETCETC
Code of Hospital Ethics and RA 8504 extends the inherent
duty of honoring privileged information to ALL personel
involved in handling and maintaining patient records
Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 imposes this duty to ANY
person with access to the electronic data
Philips (2016) Consumer informatics is of questionable
morality
Should non-health professionals involved in handling of patient
data be bound by the same code of ethics?
PHARMACEUTICAL HEALTHPHARMACEUTICAL HEALTH
ASSOCIATION OF THEASSOCIATION OF THE
PHILIPPINES CODE OF PRACTICEPHILIPPINES CODE OF PRACTICE
Ensuring physician independence - nothing
should be offered or provided in a manner or
conditions that would have an inappropriate
influence in their practice, compromise integrity
or obligations to patients
Shouldering subscription fees of webinars or
sponsoring telemedicine apps are NOT allowed
Accountability is included in their core framework -
including oversight of external third parties that act
on their behalf.
Since healthcare involves morbidity and mortality,
it is essential that trust emanates in the system design and
maintenance
DATA
PRIVACY
ACT
CONSENT - Patient and Physician AUTONOMY
SUBMITTED FOR HI 271 1ST SEM AY 2020-2021
Lisa Traboco, MD
REFERENCES:
GOODMAN (2020)
Pharmaceutical companies and their associated system developers, maintenance
and vendors should include physicians and patient representatives in user-
stakeholder meetings before an ICT system is conceptualized, designed and launched
Non Maleficence - ensuring
that individuals are protected
from inadvertent disclosure
or exposure of information
Consumer Informatics or
clandestine market research
with Pharmaceutical
companies is unethical
Transparency - "External
researchers" to "improve
algorithms" should be identified;
Opt out features must be
available.
Even in aggregate,
de-identified format