Abstract
This chapter introduces and reviews scholarship on ethical issues in health information technology. It identifies the ethical foundations of health informatics and then addresses a suite of key challenges, issues and controversies. These include the question of appropriate use and users, including “The Standard View”; standards for education and system developers; system evaluation; privacy and confidentiality; human subjects research; bioinformatics; vendors of electronic health records and their duties; managed care and traditional relationships; consumer health informatics and personal health records; and legal and regulatory matters, including the question of regulation and governance.