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

Authors

  • Hamman W. Samuel University of Alberta
  • Osmar R. Zaïane University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i2.5484

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. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Our repository contains codes of ethics from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the iHealth Coalition (iHC), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI), the British Computer Society (BCS), and the UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP), with room for adding more in the future. Our major contribution is enhancing the findability of codes and standards related to health informatics ethics by compilation and unified access through the health informatics ethics repository. 

Author Biographies

Hamman W. Samuel, University of Alberta

Doctoral Student, Department of Computing Science

Osmar R. Zaïane, University of Alberta

McCalla and Killam Professor, Department of Computing Science

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Published

2014-10-16

How to Cite

Samuel, H. W., & Zaïane, O. R. (2014). A Repository of Codes of Ethics and Technical Standards in Health Informatics. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i2.5484

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