TY - GEN
T1 - Ethics of technology introduction
T2 - Health Care Technology Policy II: The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care: Providing the Solutions
AU - Heitman, Elizabeth
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The introduction of new health care technologies raises a number of ethical considerations that should be addressed by researchers, industry, clinicians, patients, funders, and policy makers. The ethical dimensions of new technologies should be evaluated with respect to: (1) their potential to benefit those by and for whom they are intended to be used and the risks of harm that they pose to patients and society; (2) the degree to which they create or foreclose meaningful options to patients and clinicians; (3) and whether they will reduce or increase societal inequalities regarding access to treatment and the allocation of goods and services. These principles should be considered relevant to five interrelated categories: (1) essential concepts and definitions; (2) diagnosis; (3) prevention and therapy; (4) research; and (5) allocation.
AB - The introduction of new health care technologies raises a number of ethical considerations that should be addressed by researchers, industry, clinicians, patients, funders, and policy makers. The ethical dimensions of new technologies should be evaluated with respect to: (1) their potential to benefit those by and for whom they are intended to be used and the risks of harm that they pose to patients and society; (2) the degree to which they create or foreclose meaningful options to patients and clinicians; (3) and whether they will reduce or increase societal inequalities regarding access to treatment and the allocation of goods and services. These principles should be considered relevant to five interrelated categories: (1) essential concepts and definitions; (2) diagnosis; (3) prevention and therapy; (4) research; and (5) allocation.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0029462792
SN - 0819418560
SN - 9780819418562
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SP - 356
EP - 363
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
A2 - Grundfest, Warren S.
Y2 - 10 May 1995 through 12 May 1995
ER -