Telemedicine and Telehealth Links

Ethics

• Avienda
  Avienda, based in the UK, is contributing to the transformation of healthcare in the 21st century by providing consultancy services that enable telemedicine and e-health technologies to be used wherever and whenever they are appropriate.
• Centre for Bioethics' Telehealth Ethics Programme
  The purpose of the Programme is to contribute to the clarification, prevention, and where possible, the management of ethical, legal, and social problems linked to the use of information and communication technologies and networks within the health care system, and to produce an ELSI guide for use on the information highway.
• Consortium Hopes to Make it Easier to Move Data Online
  Author/editor: Tyler Chin
  Date: June 11, 2001
  From 2001 AMedNews, Technology, Johns Hopkins and medical societies seek to develop Web standards to foster medical collaboration, education and data exchange.
• Creating a Cyber Doctor-Patient Relationship
  Author/editor: John Blum
  Date: August 6, 2001
  From 2001 AMedNews, Ethics Forum, at what point does providing medical information constitute a physician-patient relationship?
• Ethics and the Brave New World of E-Health
  Author/editor: Peggy Jo Maddox
  Date: November 21, 2002
  The purpose of this article is to explore selected e-Health trends and emerging ethical concerns. From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.
• Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet
  Author/editor: Margaret A. Winker, MD; Annette Flanagin, RN, MA; Bonnie Chi-Lum, MD, MPH; John White, MS; Karen Andrews; Robert L. Kennett; Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH; Robert A. Musacchio, PhD
  Date: March 22/29, 2000
  An abstract from JAMA, Vol. 283 No. 12. The American Medical Association (AMA) has developed principles to guide development and posting of Web site content, govern acquisition and posting of online advertising and sponsorship, ensure site visitors' and patients' rights to privacy and confidentiality, and provide effective and secure means of e-commerce.
• Hi-Ethics
  Formed in November 1999 to address privacy, advertising and content quality issues for Internet health consumers. E-health web sites join as members and agree to comply with standards established by Hi-Ethics for privacy, security, credibility and reliability.
• Reconciling Ethics With Electronics: A Telemedical Challenge
  Author/editor: Leslie Versweyveld
  Date: February 8, 1998
  From Virtual medical Worlds, Dr. Koen Raes, professor at the University of Ghent, highlighted the most critical and moral aspects in telesurgery and telediagnostics at the 1997 International Symposium on Telemedicine in Brussels.

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