Tag / Bioethics
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June 26 2025 Email Newsletter
In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss our upcoming fundraising event, clinical ethics partnerships, the intersection of technology and mental wellness, and provide new clinical ethics resources in the Ethics Dispatch and video case study.
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Humans + Technology: Embracing the Intersection for Mental and Emotional Wellness
Dr. Lindsey Jarrett says apps are just a slice of how we create things to build community and engage in our desire for belonging. All of which points to a gap that may not be filled with more technology, but possibly an evaluation of the intersection that now exists between technology and humans.
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Are you a victim of enshiftification?
Our old database company offered to export our data for a few thousand dollars. But it’s our data, not theirs. We refused and paid a developer to do the conversion. Our Communication and Website Coordinator, Monica Delles, explains why these types of demands are unaffordable and unreasonable, if not unethical, especially for small nonprofits like the Center…and what we’re doing about it.
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Will Your Healthcare Organization Be Ready? Ethics Services Partnerships Offer Clarity
Read about two hospitals partnering for different clinical ethics services. Partnership with the Center offers clarity. We provide real-time consultation, long-term support, and guidance that helps hospitals respond to uncertainty with confidence – while upholding the highest ethical standards in care.
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May 28 2025 Email Newsletter
We discuss living our values in challenging times, ethical AI issues with case studies, welcome a new team member, Abby Gast-Watterson, and provide clinical ethics resources in the Ethics Dispatch and video case study in this month’s e-newsletter.
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Four Words She Uses All the Time
Autonomy. Justice. Non-maleficence. Beneficence. “I use those four basic principles of bioethics all the time!” said Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist, former Kansas State Senator, and longtime Center for Practical Bioethics volunteer and Legacy Society member.
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Case Studies: AI in Healthcare
Recognizing and understanding the risks of AI in healthcare can be hard. These case studies of AI in healthcare highlight the difficulties in implementing the algorithms.
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Living Our Values in Challenging Times
In his role as President and CEO of the Center, Dr. James Stowe is uncovering a granite resolve to stay upright against the headwinds of challenging times. To do so, he relies on the Center’s core values – dignity, advocacy, justice and action. In these personal remarks, Dr. Stowe delves into the ways that the Center lives its values.
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April 29 2025 Email Newsletter
In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss how algorithms raise ethical issues through four case studies, learn why Maggie Nuestadt serves as a board member, highlight an article on the increasing need for bioethicists, preview a new Ethics Dispatch, and provide a new video case study.
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Maggie Neustadt Brings Risk Management and Clinical Ethics Goals Together
The primary goal of risk management in healthcare, according to Maggie Neustadt, Vice President for Risk Management for the BJC Health System, is to be a creative problem solver. To find compromises to complicated medical/ethical/legal questions.
