Source | Focused Question | Literature Search | Ethical Argument | Conclusion | Overall Score | Position Taken |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Paternalism is common in medical practice |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Traditional societies need their own ethical tools for research and public health |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Informed consent is cardinal to physician-patient confidentiality |
| 1/2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.5 | Interoperability inherently allows oversight of patient records |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | Hippocratic Oath is 2500 years old and perhaps irrelevant. |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Autonomy is family owned in Asian traditional communities |
| 1/2 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 2.0 | Patient’s autonomy ignores physician rights |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1/2 | 2.5 | Paternalism occurs but not common feature of western industrial medical regimes and should be frowned upon |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Informed consent is imperative to good medical practice |
| 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.5 | Capacity is the sine qua non of autonomy |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | EHIT affects trust which potentially could lead to needless laboratory tests and treatment |
| 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1.5 | Exploitation of electronic health records for evidence-based medicine |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | Individual liberty is as important as public health and community’s interests |
| 1/2 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 2.0 | Patients, irrespective of development in technology, have a right to privacy |
Freedman and Weed, (2003) | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1.5 | Data mining should be improved to limit abuses on autonomy and privacy |
| 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 2.5 | Data mining should be improved to limit abuses on autonomy and privacy |
| 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 2.5 | Patient Electronic Health Records is not the property of the physician or the hospital, hence autonomy with participation of physician |
Vaah v. Lister, 2010 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 2.5 | Patient autonomy extends to medical records |
| 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1.5 | Patients have right of access to their records |
| 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1.5 | Electronic records cannot erode patient’s confidentiality |