Ethics, Social Media and E-Health in Thailand

Suttisak Jantavongso

Abstract


This paper represents the intersection of ethics, social media, and electronic health (e-health) research domains. Following the papers titled “Ethics and E-Health in Thailand” and “Ethics and Social Media” published in 2013; this paper is one of the research working papers on ethics in Thailand by the researcher.  This study introduced the roles of e-health and discussed certain ethical related issues aiming at those who were not familiar with e-health and the roles of Information Communications Technology (ICT) in healthcare.  The research method was based on the Information Systems (IS) research approach, which employed a positivist research framework. The framework proposed a research cycle consisting of three stages. This paper presented the results of the theory building stage. The influence of ICT and the Internet including social media was an important factor in how healthcare services in Thailand are being offered and practiced. Whereas e-health relies on digital technologies to improve the efficiency of services, enhance service and product quality, empower patients and healthcare consumers, foster relationships between healthcare providers and patients, and promote education; the impact of e-health on patients and issues relating to the online practice of health services, privacy, informed consent, and health equity must be examined. These posed issues for greater attention on “e-health ethics”.

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