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Should healthcare professionals be required to understand information science and the impact of information technology on healthcare?

April 26, 2017Healthcare impact information technology professionals understand

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Should healthcare professionals be required to understand information science and the impact of information technology on healthcare?

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Dr. Brown: In order for the healthcare professional to be a patient advocate it is necessary for the professional understand how information technology impacts the patient and the subsequent delivery of care. Dr. Goodman: Information science and its effect on healthcare are interesting and important it follows that IT and its ethical, social and legal implications (ESLI) should be incorporated into professional and post-professional (continuing education) training. Dr. Husted: This would depend on the success of informatic science at objectively proving its value. Dr. Goodman’s References Gert B. Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules.. New York, Oxford, 1989. Gert B, Culver CM, Clouser KD. Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals. New York, Oxford, 1997.