Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Ethics and Professionalism
Lecture:Ethical issues in health informatics
Slide content:Duties Owed to Patients 8.12 Figure: Duties to patients (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, 2012). 14
Slide notes:The duties of a health informatics professional to patients are based on the same four core ethical principles that apply to all health care professionals: respect for autonomy, beneficence [ beh - neff - fuh -sense], nonmaleficence [non- muh - leff - fuh -sense, and justice. These concepts are explained in detail in Lecture a. 14