Ethical Issues In Health Care

During my Bachelor’s degree, I had to do a final year project. It was a group project. The 4 of us had decided on a topic and then allocated specific topic to each one of us. Three of us did what we were assigned. But the fourth girl always had an excuse for not completing her work. The first few weeks her excuses seemed genuine and as she was our friend, we completed all of her work too. Our ethical dilemma was whether to report it to our project mentor or not. Finally, a few months into the project, we decided that to discuss the situation with our mentor. But, as the fourth person in our group has ‘A’ grade throughout the Bachelor’s program, our mentor found it difficult to believe that the person was not working. After that, our mentor made sure the fourth girl in the group did the work assigned to her, but the mentor also scolded the three of us

The main ethical dilemma in Healthcare industry is access to information and protecting privacy rights of patients. Handling sensitive data about patient information, storing and transferring it from one system to another is an issue. Storing the data files properly is also essential. The healthcare personnel should not have to go through lengthy paperwork just to access a single record. Patients and auditors can ask for access to the information at any time and so the information needs to be transmitted efficiently and safely to them. Similarly, critical information should not be difficult to retrieve also for a doctor. Suppose in an emergency situation like an accident, the doctor needs to access patient records. The doctor should not have to go through multi-factor authentication system in order to gain access to the records.