Abstract

Healthcare is a field where the influence of ethics needs to be strong. It should also cover the area of information system development in healthcare. Great amounts or research about ethics, healthcare and information system development and combinations of those can be found. However, the actual development of healthcare information systems has a serious lack of understanding of ethical codes of healthcare and it seems that financial values may bypass ethical ones. Several examples of the consequences to healthcare information systems, in which financial values in conjunction with technological determinism are controlling the decisions, are presented and critiqued.

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