Legal and Professional Issues – Manager of an IT company

You are a manager with an IT play along supplying information management systems to checkup pr stageices. A company marketing health-related products (complementary medicines, books on diets and miracle cures of various kinds) has approached you. They suggest that you jointly offer doctors incentives to accept a feature in your system that will print by advertisements for their products on documents for perseverings and target different categories of patients with mailings.Content PageTitle PageContent PageEthical Issues it raises for* The individuals- doctors, IT manager 4* The groups marketing company, patients 4-5Enquires which may be carried step to the fore in order to understand the problem better 5Proposed solution for the problem 5-6Bibliography 7Appendices 8-11Manager of an IT companyEthical Issues it raises forIT Manager* Data Protection hazard 1998- sensitive personal data within the act states that his physical or mental health or condition1 should not be disclosed . See Appendices.* Human rights act 1998* The act of Bribery, illegal in the UK.* Company should have made a legal binding to the medical practice to secure data leakage.* Ethics and knowledge Technology. See Bernhard Debatin in Appendices.* In relation to Mills theory- the consequences could lead to higher monitoring of privacy if the activity is disclosed. See Appendices.Doctors* Following the principle of Mills, again, the consequences could be increase monitoring of doctoring practice locally or through the UK.* Data protection act 1998* Human rights act 1998* Unspoken confidentiality agreement 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 about a product he/she may know little about i.e. not knowing the side affects and misinforming patients claiming a miracle cure.* Accepti ng a personal incentive on behalf of patient confidentiality* Viewed as a high profile in society- should set a high ethical example* Potential- under Mills theory, of loosing the Doctor Status, respect and combining of the patients.Marketing Company* The British Code of Advertising Practice* Marketing ethical practices* Freedom of Information motion 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 go by* Names/ Address/ disabilities and/or illnesses being disclosed private and personal information which could be very sensitive to the individual.Enquires which may be carried out in order to understand the problem betterIt would be beneficial to do all the following in order to understand the situation better* fill 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 arse 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 consummate(a) knowledge 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 lordliness 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 necessitate 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 choice as to whether they carry out the advertising- it would then be their responsibility to ensure date protection.2. The idea of disclosing patient information in my view acting as the manager is totally unethical, and will not tear down be taken into consideration 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 meet if it would be possible 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, loss the IT company out of the equation