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Offsite Websites That Are Pertinent to This Chapter

Copyright

A page, put out by Stanford University, that lists resources pertaining to fair use and copyright. Contains many excellent resources. Don't neglect the President's statement.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Everything you wanted to know about U.S. copyright, but did not know how to ask.
http://www.copyright.gov/

The full copyright law.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

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Ethics

Hurdle, John F.; Adams, Samantha; Broke,Jane; Chang, Betty; Embi, Peter J.; Petersen, Carolyn; Terrazas, Enrique & Winkelstein, Peter (2007). A Code of Professional Ethical Conduct for the American Medical Informatics Association. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 14(4), 391–393.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2244909

Hook, K. G., White, G. B. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: An Independent Study Module. Includes history of code, reasons for current changes, the key interpretive statements, the significance of the code, and application of the code to practice.
http://nursingworld.org/mods/mod580/code.pdf

IMIA Code of Ethics for Informatics.
http://www.imia.org/pubdocs/Ethics_Eng.pdf

Links to Codes of Ethics for many different technological societies sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/codes_index.html

Moore, Tony. Professional Ethics: Applied Information Ethics for Informatics Professionals. A paper discussing the current challenges and practice of ethics education in a technology-centered educational setting making the case for a collaborative relationship between academic, corporate and professional entities in providing ethics training to future informatics professionals.
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/ethics21/archives/05eei/papers/moore.pdf

The Scope of Medical Informatics Ethics (2001). Paper prepared by a class that enumerates the ethics of broad areas of informatics.
http://www.journeyofhearts.org/jofh/jofh_old/minf_528/areas.htm

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Fair Use

A different approach on Fair Use from the University of Texas.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm

Copyright and Fair Use. An excellent resource for any use of copyrighted material including academic and Web sites.
Fair_Use_Overview/index.html

US Copyright Office on Fair Use.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Legal Issues

Glazer, G. (May 4, 1999). Legislative Column: Legislative and Policy Issues Related to Interstate Practice. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Available http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/
Columns/Legislative/InterstatePracticeStateBill.aspx

Gaffney, T. (May 31, 1999). The Regulatory Dilemma Surrounding Interstate Practice Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 4(1). Manuscript 1. Available: http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/
OJIN/TableofContents/Volume41999/No1May1999/RegulatoryDilemma.aspx

Hutcherson, Carolyn M. (September 30, 2001). "Legal Considerations for Nurses Practicing in a Telehealth Setting". Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 6(3). Manuscript 3. Available: http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/
TableofContents/Volume62001/No3Sept01/LegalConsiderations.aspx

The National Council of State Boards keeps an updated list of states whose legislatures have approved the "Nurse Licensure Compact" which allows a nurse licensed in participating states to practice in another participating state IF the nurse follows the state laws regulating nursing in that state. To find what states support this go to the NCSB site, then click on "Nurse Licensure Compact" on the right side of the screen. Then on the left side link to participating states in the NLC.
http://www.ncsbn.org/

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses. http://nursingworld.org/ethics/code/protected_nwcoe813.htm

Center for Nursing Advocacy. http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/research/codes_of_ethics.html (No longer available). Replaced by The Truth About Nursing at http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse maintains an online record of all types of security breaches at http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#2007

VeriChip. http://www.verimedinfo.com/

RFID microchip use are available on the YouTube web site at http://www.youtube.com. (Search for RFID - many videos available.)

Copyright Law. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

University of Minnesota Libraries site about copyright. http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/

Citations and Referencing. http://www.sjlibrary.org/services/literacy/info_comp/plagiarism.htm

Google Book Search. http://books.google.com/

Applications and Competencies #2. http://www.privacyrights.org/

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

ATA. (2007, March). Licensure portability.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.americantelemed.org/files/public/policy/Licensure_Portability.pdf

Beard v. City of Chicago, 299 F. Supp. 2d 872 C.F.R.  (N.D. Ill., 2004).Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.massbar.org/for-attorneys/publications/section-review/2005/v7-n3/the-impact-of-hipaa-on

Blanchard, J. (2004). Ethical considerations of home monitoring technology [Electronic Version]. Home Health Care Technology Report, 1, 53, 63-64. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://tie.telemed.org/articles/article.asp?path=homehealth&article=ethics AndHomeTech_jb_hhct04.xml.

Dunlop, L. (2006). Electronic health records:  Interoperability challenges patient's right to privacy [Electronic Version]. Shidler Journal of Law, Commerce+Technology, 3. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.lctjournal.washington.edu/Vol3/a016Dunlop.html.

Gibson, C., & Bonsor, K. (n.d.). How RFID works.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/rfid7.htm

Google. (2008a). About Google book search.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://books.google.com/googlebooks/about.html

Google. (2008b). Google book search:  News & views.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://books.google.com/googlebooks/newsviews/history.html

iHealthBeat. (2007, September 4). VeriChip to offer free microchips to Florida Alzheimer's patients.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2007/9/4/VeriChip-To-Offer-Free-Microchips-to-Florida-Alzheimers-Patients.aspx?topicID=59

Jones, J. M. (2007, December 10). Lobbyists debut at bottom of honesty and ethics list.   Retrieved March 7, 2008, from http://www.gallup.com/poll/103123/Lobbyists-Debut-Bottom-Honesty-Ethics-List.aspx

Morrissey, S. (2007, October 18). Are microchips safe?   Retrieved March 8, 2008, from http://www.verichipcorp.com/news/1192716360

NCSBN. (2007, March). Participating states in the NLC.   Retrieved February 15, 2008, from https://www.ncsbn.org/158.htm

NCSBN. (2008). Background information about the RN and LPN/VN nurse licensure (NLC).   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from https://www.ncsbn.org/156.htm

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. (2008, March 5). A chronology of data breaches.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#2007

Spychips.com. (2006, May 31). Wisconsin bans forced human RFID chipping.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/verichip-wisconsin-ban.html

Swedberg, C. (2008, February 15). Washington State House gives nod to privacy bill.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3928/

Tech Law Journal. (2006). District court rules in Perfect 10 v. Google.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2006/20060217b.asp

Terry, N., & Francis, L. P. (2007). Ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of electronic health records [Electronic Version]. University of Illinois Law Review, 2. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://lawreview.law.uiuc.edu/publications/2000s/2007/2007_2/Terry.pdf

The Library of Congress. (n.d.). Timeline of copyright milestones.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/text/files/

The University of Melbourne. (2008, February 14). Academic honesty and plagiarism.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au/advice.html

U.S. Copyright Office. (2006a, July). Copyright Office Basics.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

U.S. Copyright Office. (2006b, July). Copyright fair use.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

USG Online Library Learning Center. (n.d.). Plagiarism.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit08/credit08_03.phtml

VeriChip Corporation. (2006). Physician demo.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.verimedinfo.com/demo3/index.html

VeriChip Corporation. (n.d.). VeriChip physician office demo.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.verimedinfo.com/demo3/index.html

Wachter, G. (2002, July). Malpractice and telemedicine - Telemedicine liability:  The uncharted waters of medical risk.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://tie.telemed.org/legal/other/malpractice0702.pdf

Zinn, J. (2007). The benefits and problems of using health care blogs [Electronic Version]. Nurse Author and Editor Newsletter, 17. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.nurseauthoreditor.com/article.asp?id=87 (Must register first, but registration is free)

 

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