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- Title
The Ethics of Behavioral Health Information Technology: Frequent Flyer Icons and Implicit Bias.
- Authors
Joy, Michelle; Clement, Timothy; Sisti, Dominic
- Abstract
The article explains why the use of iconography in electronic medical records to identify patients who make frequent visits to emergency departments and psychiatric crisis centers is unethical. Topics covered include the negative stereotyping, discrimination and marginalization experienced by people with mental illness and addiction, the phenomenon of diagnostic overshadowing, and the tendency for patients with serious mental illness to receive less treatment than the general population.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC health records; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); MENTAL illness; ELECTRONIC records; ATTITUDE (Psychology); IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL personnel; PATIENTS; PREJUDICES; STEREOTYPES; SUBSTANCE abuse; TREATMENT effectiveness
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2016, Vol 316, Issue 15, p1539
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2016.12534