Ethical Standards Health Information Management

You are the HIM Director in an acute care hospital setting. Your
facility has purchased an electronic health record (EHR) system and
pressure is mounting to deploy this system as soon as possible by the
chief information officer (CIO) and chief of the medical staff (CMS).
However, during a testing period, you and your staff discover that the
EHR system does not comply with applicable federal privacy and security
standards. It is your recommendation to stop the deployment until these
issues can be resolved; however, the CIO and CMS disagree.
Using Table 6.2 in the textbook titled Steps in Ethical Decision Making,
outline your response as the HIM director?s perspective to each of the
nine steps as if you were writing the memorandum to the CIO and CMS. If
you do not have enough information available for a given step, add
questions and/or inquiries you might make to gather the information in
your response. Consider your response from the legal, liability, and
ethical perspectives.