National Institute of Health granted Mayo Clinic $142-million to create a biobank as part of the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program. Software engineers in health IT have a far greater impact on patients, no equivalent code of conduct exists for developers. Developers should be required to take the Hippocratic oath just as health professionals do, especially as more biobanks are created. The risks to patient health are beyond actually causing the patient harm or pain, said ISE executive partner Ted Harrington.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3099902/do-no-harm-an-oath-for-health-it-developers.html