It is now widely agreed that the future of the health professions is computational. That is, intelligent machines and other devices are becoming essential to practice and research in medicine, nursing, public health, etc. These technologies raise many interesting and important ethical, legal and social issues.
The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, a leading international bioethics journal, features a special section on “Bioethics and Information Technology.” This section includes original work on ethical, legal, policy and social aspects of the use of computing and information technology in health, biomedical research and the health professions.
Click here for a bibliography of articles included in the section.
Articles on ethical issues and the following are welcome; this is not an exhaustive list.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- Bioinformatics, biorepositories
- Business of health information technology
- Decision support systems and prognostic scoring systems
- Disability and health informatics
- Electronic health records
- Government regulation of health informatics tools
- Information and communications technology (ICT)
- International issues, including harmonization, best practices, etc.
- Internet and the World Wide Web
- Laboratory information management systems
- Mobile health
- Personal health records, portals
- Public health informatics
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Professional-patient relationships
- Remote presence healthcare, medical homes, etc.
- Research and informatics
- Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)
- Robots and digital/virtual companions
- Safety, quality and evaluation
- Social networking
- Software engineering and writing
CONTACT INFORMATION
Author queries are encouraged. For more information or to submit a manuscript, email the Section Editor:
Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
kgoodman@med.miami.edu
Please share this notice with others who might be interested. More information about the journal, including guidelines for authors, is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQH
