Assignment task: Anna has hired 12, sixteen year old, girls from the local high school to help with document scanning. The scan jobs that they are doing typically consist of business documents. They take the documents, scan them in by hand, page by page, and then import them to CD and Film. When there is a paper problem, they copy the original and then discard it, using the copy.
Anna has just been contracted by Low Mountain Health Center to scan patient records onto film and CDs. She is excited. The 100 boxes of medical records arrive within one week of signing the contract and Anna immediately puts them in the scanning storage to be done ASAP. The girls begin to work with these records without any further training.
Consider the following:
1. What is the problem? (Clearly state the problem)
2. What are the ethical issues involved?
3. Assess the ethical principles, which ones would guide you in this case?
4. Determine alternatives for solving this dilemma.
5. What are the consequences for each alternative generated?