Framework considerations
Abstract
Health care may be construed as a right or as a commodity. On a rights perspective, society has on obligation to plan for and provide health care on an equitable basis to all its members; on a commodity perspective, access to health care is a matter of purchase power. Likewise, health care may be delivered on a directly interactive basis or in a mediated fashion using modern information technology. Further, electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly being stored in Big Data sets and expert diagnostic systems are increasingly being used to evaluate EHRs. Finally, quantum technology is about to replace standard computing methods. The ethical implications that these have for EHRs form the subject ...
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