The use of electronic technologies in medicine

The active devoted of the information technologies in medicine significantly facilitates the work of a doctor, but also creates a number of problems. One of them is related to the use in practice of documents on electronic media, including electronic medical records, and is related to personal information about the patient, which is strictly confidential and which can be stolen by unauthorized access using the capabilities of the Internet and especially social networks. Another problem associated with the use of electronic media is the possibility of uncontrolled introduction of false or erroneous information about the patient. One way to avoid mistakes associated with transferring information about one patient to an electronic document of another is to strictly identify each block of information. The importance of modern distance and multimedia teaching methods in the teaching process is emphasized. It is concluded that the future development of medical education in general, and the teaching of nervous diseases in particular, is associated with the combination of traditional methods with the capabilities of modern technical methods. Despite all the objective difficulties, it is vital to correct the situation. And here the professional experience of the doctor plays an important role. Given the fact that the use of these technologies is expanding more and more every year, the understanding of the complexities associated, with the ethical component of these methods, must be taken into account now. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved

Ethics and medicine

The article deals with the problem of ethical constituent both in medical and teaching practice. As to the medical practice, its ethical component is treated as an obligatory one, no matter what physician specialty is. That is why, the importance of ethical aspects in medicine increases greatly now. Neurology is one of the quickly developing disciplines, new data being obtained on etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment of diseases previously considered incurable. Clinical tests of new drugs demand patients Informed Consent, this being one of the important ethical aspects of medical practice. The importance of the problem is illustrated by the examples of ethically unacceptable experiments on human beings in the United States after the Second World War and The Nuremberg Tribunal. Ethical issues that arise in the teaching process are considered. Ethical problems arising from the use of electronic technique of medical information storage are also analyzed. As to the teaching practice in higher medical institutions, its main ethical constituent concerns moral aspects of medical students training. © 2020, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved