A Repository of Codes of Ethics and Technical Standards in Health Informatics

Abstract

We present a searchable repository of codes of ethics and standards in health informatics. It is built using state-of-the-art search algorithms and technologies. The repository will be potentially beneficial for public health practitioners, researchers, and software developers in finding and comparing ethics topics of interest. Public health clinics, clinicians, and researchers can use the repository platform as a one-stop reference for various ethics codes and standards. In addition, the repository interface is built for easy navigation, fast search, and side-by-side comparative reading of documents. Our selection criteria for codes and standards are two-fold; firstly, to maintain intellectual property rights, we index only codes and standards freely available on the internet. Secondly, major international, regional, and national health informatics bodies across the globe are surveyed with the aim of understanding the landscape in this domain. We also look at prevalent technical standards in health informatics from major bodies such as the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the U.

Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research and Trends in the United States

“…Samuel and Zaïane [83] laid out a framework for health informatics ethics, based on a review of nine organizations' codes of ethics. Earlier, in 2002, a consensus by the public health community expressed a 12-point code of ethics [84].…”