Capella 4000 Assessment 4 Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue

• Nonmaleficence is referred to as avoiding harm to patients. These moral standards ensure that medical professionals adhere to the practices of interest of patients (Afzal & Arshad, 2021). Medical professionals can protect patients from harm caused by privacy breaches by enhancing their safety measures. This principle concerns preventative safeguarding and avoiding harm caused by negligence or poor security measures. Implementing security frameworks to preserve medical information is adherence to the beneficence principle (Jaime et al., 2023).
• Justice entails treating everyone fairly and equitably. In the privacy and security of patient information, all patients’ health information, irrespective of socioeconomic level and personal criteria, is equally protected (Weber & Kleine, 2020). It involves establishing an adequate level of privacy that ensures equal privacy and access to technology. For example, training implies that medical professionals become aware of the necessity of safeguarding information for all patients, are educated with novel techniques, and comprehend the moral repercussions of privacy breaches that represent the values of justice (Khando et al., 2021).

Conclusion

This investigation has underlined the significance of managing privacy and cyber-security issues in medical technology. There should be a delicate equilibrium between adopting technology such as EHRs and telehealth services and assuring private patient information’s safe and ethical use. Integrated privacy frameworks, periodic risk evaluations, and regular training for medical professionals can alleviate these issues while complying with the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, justice, and non-maleficence. 

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