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Cybersecurity in health

  • Purpose Cybersecurity in healthcare has become an urgent matter in recent years due to various malicious attacks on hospitals and other parts of the healthcare infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of how core values of the health systems, such as the principles of biomedical ethics, are in a supportive or conflicting relation to cybersecurity. Design/methodology/approach This paper claims that it is possible to map the desiderata relevant to cybersecurity onto the four principles of medical ethics, i.e. beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice, and explore value conflicts in that way. Findings With respect to the question of how these principles should be balanced, there are reasons to think that the priority of autonomy relative to beneficence and non-maleficence in contemporary medical ethics could be extended to value conflicts in health-related cybersecurity. Research limitations/implications However, the tension between autonomy and justice, which relates to the desideratum of usability of information and communication technology systems, cannot be ignored even if one assumes that respect for autonomy should take priority over other moral concerns. Originality/value In terms of value conflicts, most discussions in healthcare deal with the conflict of balancing efficiency and privacy given the sensible nature of health information. In this paper, the authors provide a broader and more detailed outline.

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Author:Michele Loi, Markus Christen, Nadine Kleine, Karsten WeberORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-12-2018-0095
Parent Title (English):Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society
Subtitle (English):Disentangling value tensions
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2020/06/19
Tag:Bioethics; Computer ethics; Cybersecurity; E-Health; Healthcare
Volume:17
Issue:2
First Page:229
Last Page:245
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Kompetenzzentren der OTH Regensburg / Institut für Sozialforschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung (IST)
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Labor für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Angewandte Ethik (LaTe)
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
research focus:Digitalisierung
OpenAccess Publikationsweg:Hybrid Open Access - OA-Veröffentlichung in einer Subskriptionszeitschrift/-medium
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International