• Review the Layman article, Health Informatics: Ethical Issues in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider current and potential technologies and how they might be in conflict with patient rights.
• Select a current health information technology.
• Ask yourself if the need to know and share patient health information compromises confidentiality.
• Consider the right to privacy versus the overall benefits of the community.

Respond to the following:

• Identify potential conflicts that might occur with the principles of beneficence, autonomy, fidelity, and justice when this technology is fully implemented.
• Provide an example illustrating how the effectiveness of the technology overrides any chance of a conflict with principles of beneficence, autonomy, fidelity, or justice.