| Series Preface | p. v |
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Case Studies in Ethics and Health Informatics | p. 1 |
| The Business of Cyber Health Care | p. 9 |
| Case Studies | p. 14 |
| Health Services Online | p. 14 |
| Shopping on the Web for Surgical Options | p. 14 |
| Let the Buyer Beware | p. 15 |
| Virtual Doctors | p. 16 |
| Online Doctor Visits | p. 16 |
| Litigious Patients | p. 17 |
| Virtual Health Care Systems | p. 18 |
| Online Coverage for Uninsured Consumers | p. 19 |
| Smart Cards | p. 19 |
| An Electronic Soapbox | p. 20 |
| Virtual House Calls | p. 21 |
| Cyber Home Health Care | p. 21 |
| The Virtual House Call | p. 21 |
| Dial-Up Medicine | p. 22 |
| Cybercare | p. 23 |
| Avoiding Drug-Drug Interactions | p. 23 |
| An Interactive Support Group for ALS | p. 24 |
| Information and Support on the Internet | p. 25 |
| Fear and Communication | p. 25 |
| Sale of Body Parts | p. 26 |
| Internet Bids for a Kidney | p. 26 |
| Sperm Bank Advertisements on the Internet | p. 27 |
| Models' Eggs for Sale | p. 27 |
| Suicide on the Web | p. 28 |
| Suicide Web Site | p. 28 |
| Online Medical Records | p. 28 |
| Secure Medical Records on the Internet | p. 28 |
| Cyber File Cabinet | p. 29 |
| Medical Records on the Internet | p. 29 |
| Medical Records Online | p. 30 |
| Doctor Posts Patient Files on the Net | p. 31 |
| Pharmaceutical Products | p. 31 |
| Drug Bazaar | p. 31 |
| The Internet Diet Doctor | p. 32 |
| Dispensing via the Internet | p. 33 |
| Dying for Sex | p. 33 |
| Internet Prescriptions | p. 34 |
| Online Importation of Drugs to the United States | p. 35 |
| Foreign Sales of Drugs on the Internet | p. 35 |
| Online Auction for Pharmaceuticals | p. 36 |
| Drug Database Sells Advertisements to Sponsors | p. 37 |
| Mental Health Services | p. 37 |
| Diagnosing Depression by Computer | p. 37 |
| The Cybercouch | p. 38 |
| Counseling on the Internet | p. 39 |
| Cyberchondriasis | p. 39 |
| Tingling Feet or MS? | p. 39 |
| Munchausen Syndrome and Medical Record Hacking | p. 40 |
| Munchausen Syndrome Online | p. 41 |
| Contents Consumer Health Information: Let the Viewer | |
| Beware (Caveat Viewor) | p. 47 |
| Case Studies | p. 51 |
| Inaccurate Information | p. 51 |
| Inaccurate Medical Information on the Web--Childhood Diarrhea | p. 51 |
| Cancer Information on the Internet | p. 51 |
| Internet Advice on Home Management of Feverish Children | p. 52 |
| Unverified Health Claims | p. 53 |
| "Web Slippery with Snake Oil" | p. 53 |
| The Growth of Unverified Health Claims | p. 53 |
| Laetrile | p. 54 |
| Fears of Aspartame | p. 55 |
| Beware of Dangerous Medical Advice Online | p. 55 |
| Conflicts of Interest | p. 56 |
| Web Site Sponsorship | p. 56 |
| Promoting Products and Services | p. 57 |
| Listing for Sale? | p. 58 |
| Headache Resources on the Internet | p. 58 |
| Professional Associations and For-Profit Web Sites | p. 59 |
| Privacy and Confidentiality | p. 63 |
| Case Studies | p. 73 |
| Breaches of Security | p. 73 |
| Sex Doctor's Patient Files on the Web | p. 73 |
| Medical Records Online at a University Medical Center | p. 74 |
| Security Breach of a Hospital's Voice Mail System | p. 75 |
| Access to an Electronic Medical Record | p. 75 |
| Electronic Mental Health Records | p. 76 |
| A Case of Mistaken Identity | p. 77 |
| Confidential Medical Records on Used Computers | p. 77 |
| E-mail Goes Astray | p. 78 |
| Inappropriate Use of Health Information | p. 79 |
| Inappropriate Access to a Celebrity's Medical Record | p. 79 |
| Patients Told They Had AIDS | p. 80 |
| Medical Records for Sale | p. 81 |
| Medical Care Database Information for Sale | p. 82 |
| Credit Card Fraud | p. 82 |
| Banker Calls in Loans of Cancer Patients | p. 83 |
| Misuse of Public Health Data | p. 83 |
| Integrated Health Care Systems | p. 84 |
| Patients' Files Used for Obscene Calls | p. 85 |
| Abortion Clinic Sues CompuServe | p. 85 |
| Men Contract Syphilis after Meeting in an Internet Chatroom | p. 86 |
| Secondary Use of Medical Information | p. 86 |
| Privacy of Pharmacy Data | p. 86 |
| Tracking Consumers on the Web | p. 87 |
| Release of Medical Information | p. 88 |
| The Medical Insurance Bureau | p. 89 |
| The Psychiatric Case Register | p. 90 |
| Wellness Plan Files Used to Fight Employee Job-Related Injury Claims | p. 90 |
| Dispute over Use of Medicaid Records | p. 91 |
| Billing Data Released in Fraud Case | p. 92 |
| Data Sharing | p. 93 |
| Creating a National Database | p. 93 |
| Medical Web Site Faulted on Privacy | p. 94 |
| Privacy on Cancer Support Web Sites | p. 95 |
| Violation of the Privacy of Pharmacy Customers | p. 96 |
| Marketing Prescription Drugs | p. 96 |
| Inappropiate Use of Patient Pharmacy Data | p. 97 |
| Doctor Shaken to Find Personal Data on the Web | p. 98 |
| Data Mining | p. 98 |
| Rating Physicians | p. 99 |
| Rating Physicians on Outcomes | p. 100 |
| Physician Disciplinary Reports on the Internet | p. 100 |
| The Wall of Silence | p. 101 |
| AMA Fights for Control of Price Data | p. 101 |
| Protection of Patients' Privacy | p. 102 |
| Confidentiality of Patient Data | p. 102 |
| Legislated Restrictions on Access to Medical Records for Research | p. 103 |
| Hackers | p. 104 |
| Beware: Hackers at Play | p. 104 |
| Computer Engineer Sentenced | p. 104 |
| University Tightens Computer Security | p. 105 |
| Privacy Online | p. 105 |
| Uncovering Physicians' Online Identities | p. 105 |
| CEO Sues Online Critics | p. 106 |
| The Challenge of Bioinformatics | p. 113 |
| Case Studies | p. 117 |
| Issues in Bioinformatics | p. 117 |
| Computational Pharmacogenomics | p. 117 |
| Genetic Information in Centralized Databases | p. 119 |
| Computational Genomics and Intellectual Property | p. 120 |
| Web-mediated Paternity Testing | p. 120 |
| Errors in Genetic Databases | p. 121 |
| Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm | p. 123 |
| Case Studies | p. 131 |
| Failure of Health Information Systems | p. 131 |
| A Troubled Hospital Medical Information System | p. 131 |
| A Borrowed Pharmacy System | p. 132 |
| Problems with a Billing and Payment System | p. 133 |
| Physician Resistance to an Internet Based System | p. 134 |
| Unanticipated Consequences of a Physician Order Entry System | p. 135 |
| Automation of Inefficient Processes | p. 136 |
| Failure of a "Best of Breed" Information System | p. 137 |
| "No OSCAR" | p. 138 |
| An Unsuccessful Computerized Medical Record System | p. 139 |
| An Abandoned Computerized Medical Record System | p. 140 |
| The Effects of Computerizing Medical Records on Clinic Function | p. 142 |
| Electronic Prescriptions | p. 143 |
| Programming Error Results in Overpayment of Doctors | p. 144 |
| Information Systems That Harm Patients | p. 144 |
| Malfunction of the Therac-25 | p. 144 |
| Failure to Integrate Information Systems | p. 146 |
| Concerns about the "Bedside Assistant" | p. 147 |
| Online Challenges for Human Subjects Research | p. 154 |
| Case Studies | p. 157 |
| Clinical Trials | p. 157 |
| Information Exchange as a Confounder | p. 157 |
| Web Site with Patient Reports on HIV Treatment | p. 158 |
| Promising Trial of New Drug Spurs Demand | p. 159 |
| The Doctor-Patient Relationship | p. 159 |
| Alternative Protocols for Cancer | p. 159 |
| Patient-Doctor Conflict Over the Appropriateness of a Therapy | p. 160 |
| Protocol Shopping on the Internet | p. 160 |
| Research Ethics | p. 161 |
| Mining Patient Records | p. 161 |
| Snooping on Internet Chat Rooms | p. 162 |
| Tracing Syphilis in Cyberspace | p. 162 |
| Ethical Standards for Health Web Sites | p. 165 |
| HON Code of Conduct (HONcode) for Medical and Health Web Sites | p. 166 |
| eHealth Code of Ethics | p. 168 |
| TRUSTe's Consumer Privacy Protection Guidelines | p. 176 |
| TRUSTe Model Privacy Statement | p. 178 |
| Health Internet Ethics: Ethical Principles For Offering Internet Health Services to Consumers | p. 184 |
| Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet | p. 191 |
| Principles Governing AMA Publications Web Sites | p. 199 |
| Index | p. 211 |
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