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Digital assets: Help your heirs from getting lost in the cloud
For many of
us, stashing information has moved from old-fashioned filing cabinets,
desk drawers, and shoeboxes into the digital "cloud." Will your heirs be able to find out what you own (and what you owe) if you can't log on and show them? The answer may be no. A Retirement Institute study found that 57%
of respondents hadn't made provisions to pass their digital financial
records on to their heirs, even though more than half of those with
digital property believed that it's important to do so. More
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.