Items for "normative analysis"

Positioning the Patient: Normative Analysis of Electronic Patient Records

OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to take the current ethical research on electronic patient records beyond the ethical-legal issues of privacy to include contemporary issues of the politics of technology and value sensitive design. METHODS: The paper employs an interpretive approach to analyze research on electronic patient records with concepts of the politics of technology and value sensitive design. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The broad development towards computerization of patient records lacks needed attention to the potential effects of such systems on the patients...

Keywords: Electronic Patient Record, Ethics, normative analysis, value sensitive design, patient centered approach