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INTRODUCTION

AMIA has a longstanding interest in and a professional obligation to promote a strong ethical framework for the field of biomedical and health informatics. This white paper presents the latest AMIA Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct. The original Code was approved in 20071 by the AMIA Board of Directors. Recognizing the need to update the Code to ensure that it remains current and relevant, this document constitutes a revision of and update to the second code, approved in 2012 and published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2013.2 The code presented here remains an evolving document, with modifications expected as the information technology, informatics, and healthcare environments change over time. AMIA will publish on its web site the most recent version of the Code of Ethics as part of a process that seeks ongoing response from and involvement by AMIA members.

Because the Code is meant to be practical, applicable in real life, and easily understood, it is compact and uses general language. The AMIA Code of Ethics is not intended to be prescriptive or legislative; it is aspirational and extends beyond regulatory and legal obligations to provide the broad strokes of a set of important ethical principles pertinent to the field of biomedical and health informatics.

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