Bovi Amy M
Am J Bioeth. 2003 Summer;3(3):W-IF3. doi: 10.1162/152651603322874780.
This report offers recommendations to physicians who provide information or services through online sites. The recommendations maintain that physicians responsible for health-related information should ensure that it is accurate, timely, reliable, and scientifically sound. Also, advice to the online users with whom physicians do not have pre-existing relationships or the use of decision-support programs that generate personalized information directly transmitted to users should be consistent with general and specialty-specific standards. In particular, these standards address truthfulness, protection of privacy, informed consent, and disclosures including limitations inherent in the technology. Finally, physicians who establish or are involved in health-related online sites must minimize conflicts of interest and commercial biases and, if patient specific information is transmitted, they must provide high-level security protections, as well as privacy and confidentiality safeguards.
本报告为通过在线网站提供信息或服务的医生提供建议。这些建议认为，负责健康相关信息的医生应确保信息准确、及时、可靠且科学合理。此外，对于与医生没有预先存在关系的在线用户提供的建议，或使用直接传输给用户的生成个性化信息的决策支持程序，应符合一般和特定专业标准。特别是，这些标准涉及真实性、隐私保护、知情同意以及包括技术固有局限性在内的披露。最后，建立或参与健康相关在线网站的医生必须尽量减少利益冲突和商业偏见，如果传输患者特定信息，他们必须提供高级安全保护以及隐私和保密保障。
