eHealth and Ethics

Ethical Issues ◽

Ethical Awareness ◽

Ethical Thought ◽

Stakeholder Groups ◽

Radio Frequency Identification Devices

Frequency Identification ◽

The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is increasing rapidly in many spheres of contemporary life in Europe. The ethical use of ICT in all areas of its application is of growing importance. This is especially evident in the field of healthcare. The regional, national, and Europe-wide electronic aspects of health services and systems are related fundamentally to these two developments. This chapter explores the relevance of ethics to eHealth generally. It outlines two main contrasting ideas that have influenced ethical thought: Kantian ethics and consequentialism. It investigates the ways in which teaching and practice for ICT professionals and trainees can be enhanced and extended to increase the awareness of ethical issues in eHealth. It takes as examples two technological applications that are in increasing use in the eHealth field: electronic health records and radio frequency identification devices. The chapter ends with a brief discussion and conclusions about how this ethical awareness can be expanded beyond ICT professionals to other stakeholder groups, and to other eHealth technologies or applications.

Identification technologies evaluation method: an application in cattle chain

Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management ◽

10.14488/bjopm.2018.v15.n1.a3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 23-34

Author(s):

Priscilla Cristina Cabral Ribeiro ◽

Mário Otávio Batalha ◽

Katherine M. Chudoba ◽

Deevon Bailey ◽

Annibal Jose Scavarda

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Evaluation Method ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Group A ◽

Frequency Identification ◽

Group B

The objective of this paper is to apply an identification technologies evaluation method in cattle chain in a sample in Brazil and in USA. These technologies are information and communication technologies, such as Radio Frequency Identification and barcode. The research methodology used was a qualitative study, with an extensive literature review on information technology, information systems, and Radiofrequency evaluation methods. A scale was created to decide what decision the case study has to take according to its technology. The method proposed can contribute to the theory of information technology evaluation and can offer practitioners an efficient and effective way to evaluate prospective information technology implementations. The rankings showed that American respondents evaluate RFID with a better performance in security variables. Brazilian agents evaluate Radiofrequency with a better performance in technical and organizational variable. The scale revealed that the Americans have more agents in Group B (8), which means reevaluation of the identification method, and just one in Group A, meaning that it has to change its information technology. Brazilian agents have more cases in Group B (6), than group C (3), and Group A (1). This means that the majority of the sample has to reevaluate their method to trace cattle.

Automatic Materials Tracking Practices Through RFID Implementation in Construction Projects

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201926605001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 266 ◽

pp. 05001 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Narimah Kasim ◽

Norliana Sarpin ◽

Hamidun Mohd Noh ◽

Rozlin Zainal ◽

Sulzakimin Mohamed ◽

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Keyword(s):

Construction Projects ◽

Vital Role ◽

Materials Management ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Ict Implementation ◽

Frequency Identification

Materials tracking for materials management play a vital role and contributed a major portion of the total cost in a construction project. In addition, the improper handling and storage of materials at the construction site has made it difficult to track and locate at the time are needed to carry out construction works. These problems subsequently contribute to the project delays and increase in the total project costs. Thus, this paper seeks to identify problems regarding current material tracking practices in materials management processes. In this paper, ICT and potential implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for automatic materials tracking is also scrutinised. Data for this paper was obtained from the literature review and the case studies conducted in several construction projects. Semi-structured interviews with construction practitioners were carried out in order to gain insights into current problems, information and communication technologies (ICT) implementation, and RFID capability in assisting materials tracking practices. This paper reveals that construction projects in Malaysia are still using manual materials tracking practices, basic ICT implementation, and totally none RFID existence. Thus, there is a need for the application of RFID in order to facilitate materials tracking automatically for enhancing construction industry processes through IR 4.0.

Advances in Public Policy and Administration - Ethical Issues and Citizen Rights in the Era of Digital Government Surveillance ◽

Using Duality Theory to Reframe E-Government Challenges

10.4018/978-1-4666-9905-2.ch003 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 35-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kathleen S. Hartzel ◽

Virginia W. Gerde

Keyword(s):

Duality Theory ◽

Communication Systems ◽

Stakeholder Groups ◽

Conflicting Objectives ◽

New Framework ◽

Government Development

The design of information and communication systems for e-government is burdened with a host of conflicting objectives. For example, systems should be standardized and stable, but at the same time they should also be flexible and responsive to the needs of various stakeholder groups. When systems are designed properly, ICT (information and communication technologies) features can help resolve some of the tensions created by conflicting objectives. This chapter uses duality theory as a basis for a new framework that demonstrates how many of the tensions found at various stages of e-government (development, implementation, and adoption) can be reframed as dualities. When e-government systems are designed for duality, ICT mitigates many of the barriers and obstacles and increases the system's effectiveness and acceptance by the citizenry.

Ethical issues in information and communication technologies: Case of Malaysian primary schools

2012 International Conference on Innovation Management and Technology Research ◽

10.1109/icimtr.2012.6236450 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maslin Masrom ◽

Nadia Jamal ◽

Nik Hasnaa Nik Mahmood ◽

Othman Zainon ◽

Muhammad Madi Abdullah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Primary Schools ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Information And Communication

The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation

Presence Teleoperators & Virtual Environments ◽

10.1162/105474605775196553 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 656-667 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Luciano Floridi

Keyword(s):

Standard Model ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Digital Information ◽

New Model ◽

The Standard Model ◽

Successful Observation

The paper introduces a new model of telepresence. First, it criticizes the standard model of presence as epistemic failure, showing it to be inadequate. It then replaces it with a new model of presence as successful observation. It further provides reasons to distinguish between two types of presence, backward and forward. The new model is then tested against two ethical issues whose nature has been modified by the development of digital information and communication technologies, namely pornography and privacy, and shown to be effective.

Effects of ICT in Albanian Tourism Business

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.36941/ajis-2020-0129 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 252

Author(s):

Ira Gjika ◽

Nikollaq Pano

Keyword(s):

Digital Technologies ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Medium Size ◽

Stakeholder Groups ◽

Ict Use ◽

Industrial Sectors ◽

Smart Tourism

The digitalisation in the manufacturing and industrial sectors has been fast ‘exported’ in tourism industry as well. The technological revolution has highly affected both the supplier and the consumer of tourism products and services. There is recently an increasing attention from the industry and academia in order to highlight the challenges of ICT use in tourism and the drivers of “smart tourism” in world level. Our study joins these efforts with the goal to observe the use of information and communication technologies in Albanian tourism and detect the elements of smart tourism in it. The survey and interviews with a sample of experienced medium size tourism companies were used to assess the expansion of ICT in their overall activity. The data collected and processed did enable to point out the penetration of digital technologies in Albanian tourism. Further on, some features of smart tourism are highlighted and some drivers of digitalization in Albanian tourism are brought to the attention of stakeholder groups.

Towards an interdisciplinary ICT applied ethics: language matters

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada ◽

10.1590/1984-6398201610240 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 493-519 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marcelo Buzato

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Alternative View ◽

Moral Environment ◽

Interdisciplinary Theory ◽

Modes Of Existence

Abstract: This study seeks to support an interdisciplinary, theory-practice integrated work on the applied ethics of information and communication technologies (ICT). Current work on applied ICT ethics is of a disciplinary nature and seeks to apply traditional philosophical norms to novel situations that are not easily identified by analogy to previous cases. I propose an alternative view in which ICTs are seen as a moral environment and ethical agents are seen as human-computer hybrids (cyborgs) whose experiences acquire ethical value ecologically. To implement such a view, I propose employing two different kinds of semiotics: a semiotics of meaning-making that is open to the environmental effects of cyborg acts across scales, and a material semiotics that allows for interdisciplinary practitioners to recognize the modes of existence involved in the ethical issues and work out better means-ends relationships among the modes pertinent to each discipline.

Ethical Issues Arising from the Usage of Electronic Communications in the Workplace

Global Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-587-2.ch710 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1999-2018

Author(s):

Fernando A.A. Lagraña

Keyword(s):

Corporate Culture ◽

Unethical Behavior ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Electronic Communications ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

E Mail

E-mail has become the most popular communication tool in the professional environment. Electronic communications, because of their specific nature, raise a number of ethical issues: e-mail communications are distance, asynchronous, text-based, and interactive computer-mediated communications and allow for storage, retrieval, broadcast and manipulation of messages. These specificities give rise to misunderstanding, misconduct in the absence of the interlocutors, information and mail overload, as well as privacy infringement and misuse of shared computing resources. Inexperience explains some users’ unethical behavior. Other forms of unethical behavior find their roots in corporate culture, internal competition and management styles. E-businesses, as early adopters of information and communication technologies, are being particularly exposed to such behaviors, since they rely heavily on electronic communications. They should therefore assess their internal situation and develop and enforce e-mail policies accordingly.

Ubiquitous Healthcare

Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch019 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 273-281 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cheon-Pyo Lee ◽

J. P. Shim

Keyword(s):

Human Error ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Ubiquitous Healthcare ◽

Frequency Identification ◽

Rfid Applications

Ubiquitous healthcare has become possible with rapid advances in information and communication technologies. Ubiquitous healthcare will bring about an increased accessibility to healthcare providers, more efficient tasks and processes, and a higher quality of healthcare services. radio frequency identification (RFID) is a key technology of ubiquitous healthcare and enables a fully automated solution for information delivery, thus reducing the potential for human error. This chapter provides an overview of ubiquitous healthcare and RFID applications. In this chapter, the background of ubiquitous computing and RFID technologies, current RFID applications in hospitals, and the future trends and privacy implications of RFID in hospitals are discussed.