Week 6 - Assignment: Counsel First-Time Managers on Technology Implications

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Books and Resources for this Week

Week 6

Issues in Advanced Health Technology

There are issues in healthcare that have been part of the national debate for decades.

These issues include abortion, informed consent, determination of death, and active and

passive euthanasia. Advances in technology have expanded the concepts of viability

outside of the womb and the ability to sustain life using heroic measures. With such

technological advances come other issues such as health informatics, passive health

monitoring tools, electronic health records, fetal tissue research, genetic counseling,

harvesting of embryos, in-vitro fertilization, organ donation and transplantation, quality-

of-life issues, random clinical trials, sterilization, surrogate parenthood, and withdrawing

or withholding lifesaving treatment.

In Week 1, you examined ethical decision-making, primarily from an individual

perspective. This week, you will research options for decision-making from an

organizational perspective. In 1992, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health

Care Organizations required hospitals to establish mechanisms to provide resolutions to

ethical dilemmas resulting from patient care. Most hospitals responded to this

requirement by forming ethics committees (Hoffman & Tarzian, 2008).

Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

References:

Hoffman, D. E., & Tarzian, A. J. (2008). The role and legal status of health care ethics

committees in the United States. In A. S. Iltis (Ed.), Legal perspectives in bioethics: Annals

of bioethics series (pp. 46-67). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, Taylor, and Francis.

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Cheshire, W. P., Jr. (2017). Telemedicine and

the ethics of medical care at a distance.

Ethics & Medicine, 33(2), 71-75. Link

Doudna, J. (2015, September). Jennifer

Doudna: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA

[Video file]. TEDTalks. Link

Hansson, S. O. (2007). The ethics of enabling

technology. Cambridge Quarterly of

Healthcare Ethics, 16(3), 257-267. Link

Lysdahl, K. B., Oortwijn, W., van der Wilt, G.

J., Refolo, P., Sacchini, D., Mozygemba, K., ...

Hofmann, B. (2016). Ethical analysis in HTA... Link

Marks, J. (2017, February). Jonathan Marks:

In praise of conflict [Video file]. TEDTalks. Link

Soril, L. J. J., Clement, F. M., & Noseworthy, T.

W. (2016). Bioethics, health technology

reassessment, and management. Health

Management Forum... Link

Torous, J., & Nebeker, C. (2017). Navigating

ethics in the digital age: Introducing

connected and open research ethics (CORE),

a tool for... Link

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Simoncelli, T. (2014, November). Tania

Simoncelli: Should you be able to patent a

human gene? [Video file]. Films on Demand. Link

Wolpe, P. R. (2010, November). Paul Root

Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering

[Video file]. TEDTalks. Link

Wyss-Coray, T. (2015, June). Tony Wyss-

Coray: How young blood might help reserve

aging. Yes really [Video file]. TEDTalks. Link

Week 6 - Assignment: Counsel First-Time Managers on

Technology Implications Assignment

Due July 28 at 11:59 PM

You have chosen the newest member of your leadership team to represent the

administration department on your organization’s bioethics committee. You chose this

individual due to their enthusiasm for the topic; but unlike some other members of the

bioethics committee, they lack expertise in the various topics that are often discussed in

committee meetings. In the past, you served on the bioethics committee and are familiar

with some of the responsibilities and topic areas. The committee provides an orientation

to all new committee members, but the orientation leans toward the operations of the

committee. In order the make the member of your team feel more comfortable in their

role, you will develop a presentation on the why the bioethics committee was formed, as

well as possible topics that may arise, especially with recent advances in technology.

The presentation to your team member should provide a brief background on the legal

cases that encouraged the formation of the bioethics committee. It should also describe

any legal or regulatory requirements for the formation of the bioethics committee. Lastly,

the presentation must also include the following topics:

Statutes and regulations related to patient’s rights and responsibilities.

Statutes and regulations related to clinician’s rights and responsibilities.

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Current principles of patient consent.

Health information management and confidentiality.

Organ harvesting.

Reproductive technology.

Genetics and cloning.

End-of-life care.

Please discuss the legal and ethical implications undergirding each topic. You may include

additional advanced technology topics if you’d like.

Length: The slide presentation will consist of 12-15 slides, not including the first slide as

your title slide and the last slide as your reference slide.

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources to support the content of the

letter.