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Ethical Considerations about EHR-Mediated Results Disclosure and Pathology Information Presented via Patient Portals.
AMA J Ethics
August 2016
Associate professor of pathology, section head of hematopathology, and director of the Ethics Path of Excellence (a co-curricular program) at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and serves as a hospital ethicist, performing ethics consultations at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
Electronic health records (EHR) now include patient portals where patients can obtain clinical reports, including notes, radiology reports, and laboratory/anatomic pathology results. Although portals increase patient access to information, no guidelines have been developed for hospitals about appropriate delays in posting different types of pathology reports to the EHR. Delays exist as a matter of policy to allow physicians time to answer questions and provide emotional support when discussing sensitive results with patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRequests for VIP Treatment in Pathology: Implications for Social Justice and Systems-Based Practice.
AMA J Ethics
August 2016
Associate professor of pathology, section head of hematopathology, and director of the Ethics Path of Excellence (a co-curricular program) at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and serves as a hospital ethicist, performing ethics consultations at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
Preferential treatment of patients whom we deem "very important" is a practice that is common in our health care system. The impact of this designation and the care that results is rarely studied or scrutinized. Although we assume that this type of treatment results in superior outcomes, this assumption can be wrong for a variety of reasons, which we discuss here.
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