263887 Ethical dilemmas: Examples from public health practice – use of electronic data reporting case vignette

Sunday, October 28, 2012 : 3:25 PM - 3:40 PM

Kenneth Goodman, PhD , Bioethics Program, University of Miami, Miami, FL
The purpose of this presentation will be to provide a third illustration of an ethical issue encountered by local health departments. This case will address some of the challenges encountered by epidemiologists and public health practitioners related to using the expanding pool of individual and community health and behavior data from electronic health records.

Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Communication and informatics
Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective: Describe a common public health ethics challenge.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the founder and director of the University of Miami (UM) Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative and co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs. I am a Professor of Medicine at UM with appointments in numerous departments including Philosophy, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, and Public Health. I direct a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy and chair the Ethics Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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