Digital Healthcare and Health Information Communication: Challenges and Prospects

The Covid-19 crisis has brought to light the importance of effective health information communication and the need for research in digital communications. The management of health crises is often marred by controversies, including the search for accurate information on symptoms, misinformation on emerging treatments, and the massive use of collaborative tools by healthcare professionals.

The Challenges of Digital Healthcare

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in healthcare is not without its challenges. This book offers a critical examination of the organizational and professional limits of ICT uses for patients, their caregivers, and healthcare professionals. It analyzes the links between ICT and the ethics of care, highlighting the importance of health communication as part of a global, humanistic, and emancipating care for patients and caregivers.

The Rise of Digitized Health Knowledge

The internet has revolutionized the way health knowledge is communicated. This book explores the emergence of new digitized means of communicating health knowledge, revealing a competition between biomedical expert knowledge and experiential secular knowledge. This shift has significant implications for the way healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers interact and access health information.

Product Details:
ASIN: B098ZLDST4
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE; 1st edition (July 7, 2021)
Publication date: July 7, 2021
Language: English
Screen Reader: Supported
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Page numbers source ISBN: 1786304686