Legal and Professional Issues – Manager of an IT company

You are a animal trainer with an IT companion supplying information counsel administrations to checkup exam pr titleices. A company marketing health-related products (complementary medicines, books on diets and miracle cures of various kinds) has approached you. They advert that you jointly offer bear ons incentives to accept a feature in your system that will print come forward advertisements for their products on documents for patients and target different categories of patients with mailings. theme PageTitle PageContent PageEthical Issues it raises for* The individuals- loads, IT manager 4* The groups marketing company, patients 4-5Enquires which whitethorn be carried let on in parade to understand the problem mitigate 5Proposed solution for the problem 5-6Bibliography 7Appendices 8-11 managing director of an IT companyEthical Issues it raises forIT director* Data Protection Act 1998- warm personal data inside the act states that his physical or moral health or c ondition1 should not be let out. See Appendices.* man rights act 1998* The act of Bribery, illegal in the UK.* Company should have made a legal binding to the medical examination practice to secure data leakage.* moral philosophy and Information Technology. See Bernhard Debatin in Appendices.* In relation to Mills theory- the consequences could bleed to higher monitoring of privacy if the activity is disclosed. See Appendices.Doctors* Following the rationale of Mills, a slang, the consequences could be increased monitoring of have-to doe withing practice locally or by dint of the UK.* Data protection act 1998* Human rights act 1998* Unspoken confidentiality musical arrangement with patient (doctor/ patient relationship)* Medical good practices, as laid out by the General Medical Council http//www.gmc-uk.org/standards/default.htm.* Breaking position of patient/ doctor authority* Misinforming patients/ disclosing information nearly a product he/she may know little about i.e . not knowing the side affects and misinforming patients claiming a miracle cure.* Accepting a personal incentive on behalf of patient confidentiality* Viewed as a high profile in society- should set a high good example* Potential- under Mills theory, of loosing the Doctor Status, respect and trust of the patients. selling Company* The British Code of Advertising Practice* Marketing ethical practices* Freedom of Information Act 2000 could be viewed as ethical for such medical information to be disclosed in Europe.Patients* Unspoken confidentiality agreement with doctor (doctor/ patient relationship)* Date protection Act 1998 as before* Human Rights Act 1998 as before* Doctor- medical professional, patient- not a medical professional, thus the acceptance of something neither may no much about would potentially occur* Names/ Address/ disabilities and/or illnesses being disclosed private and personal information which could be very sensitive to the individual.Enquires which may be ca rried out in nine to understand the problem betterIt would be beneficial to do all the following in night club to understand the situation better* Contact the marketing company to gain a comprehensive understanding of the products if not, the manufacturer.* Conduct research to find out if the product(s) have been used elsewhere, and if so, what the results were.* Contact the NHS what are the regulations behind the marketing of products within medical practises. As the governing body, has research been previously carried out on these products?* Contact the General Medical Council who protect/ guide doctors and patients. With thorough experience of ethical guidance procedures for doctors and patients, they claim doctors should along with many other thingso Respect and protect confidential information about patientso Respect patients gravitas and privacyo Avoid abusing your position as a doctor2* Speak to the doctors, ask them about the product and for them to speak to their peers in regard to the product- has others heard/used them.Proposed solution for the problemThere are a couple of steps that can be carried out in order to minimise the ethical dilemmas that are concealed within this problem1. The IT Manager myself could give the doctors details obtained from the company marketing health-related products so that they have the election as to whether they carry out the advertising- it would then be their responsibility to check date protection.2. The idea of disclosing patient information in my view acting as the manager is totally wrong, and will not even be taken into contemplation even with an incentive- it would put my profession as well as the medical practice under legal scrutiny.3. The NHS could be contacted to see if it would be thinkable for the marketing company to operate through them, ensuring that nothing illegal/unethical is taking place, and thus increasing the financial position of the NHS, again, leaving the IT company out of the equat ion