Digital technologies shape the way in which individuals and health systems interact to promote health and treat illness. Their propensity to exacerbate inequalities is increasingly being highlighted as a concern for public health. Personal, contextual and technological factors all interact and determine uptake and consequent use of digital technologies for health. Digitalization and the introduction of telemedicine services have demonstrably improved equity in delivering health care services. Digital tech is making healthcare proactive as opposed to reactive, enlarging and enabling access to quality healthcare for communities that were traditionally underserved or marginalized and for home health care. In this scenario, there are still relevant ethical issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure an effective and efficient care in digital medicine.
The Topic Editors are inviting papers on a range of research, practices, and educational topics regarding ethical issues particularly related to the experience of patients, front line healthcare professionals, and healthcare managers. The aim of this Research Topic is to highlight the ethical issues emerging in Digital Medicine and how these were addressed according to an approach consistent with the definition of a "job well done". The ethics of a “job well done” has, as it’s theoretical objective, the enhancement of the moral object of the Human Act which, in public health, provides the main content of best practice and of the care gold standard. When it is necessary to evaluate professional action in a public health scenario, the ethics of a "job well done" is applied with a bioethical reflection, starting from its quality as a prerequisite for a relationship with the patient that respects the virtue of justice and prudence. The most important policy implications of this topic are the following:
a) Digitalization and the introduction of telemedicine services are useful tools to fix medical democracy improving equity
b) The use of new technologies in medicine has important consequences for medical intelligence policies
c) The creation of new systemic telemedicine makes new international health policy collaborations possible.
Specific areas of interest to this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
• Policies for Digital Medicine;
• Ethics of a "job well done" in Digital Health;
• Digital Medicine and Clinical Risk Management;
• Technology Acceptance and Digital Literacy;
• Individual rights and public health in Digital Health;
• Data Protection, Privacy and Digital Literacy;
• Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence;
• Connected Care and organizational models for community and home health care;
• Medical internet of things and big data in healthcare.
The Topic Editors encourage manuscript submissions that provide evaluation results on these themes.
Digital technologies shape the way in which individuals and health systems interact to promote health and treat illness. Their propensity to exacerbate inequalities is increasingly being highlighted as a concern for public health. Personal, contextual and technological factors all interact and determine uptake and consequent use of digital technologies for health. Digitalization and the introduction of telemedicine services have demonstrably improved equity in delivering health care services. Digital tech is making healthcare proactive as opposed to reactive, enlarging and enabling access to quality healthcare for communities that were traditionally underserved or marginalized and for home health care. In this scenario, there are still relevant ethical issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure an effective and efficient care in digital medicine.
The Topic Editors are inviting papers on a range of research, practices, and educational topics regarding ethical issues particularly related to the experience of patients, front line healthcare professionals, and healthcare managers. The aim of this Research Topic is to highlight the ethical issues emerging in Digital Medicine and how these were addressed according to an approach consistent with the definition of a "job well done". The ethics of a “job well done” has, as it’s theoretical objective, the enhancement of the moral object of the Human Act which, in public health, provides the main content of best practice and of the care gold standard. When it is necessary to evaluate professional action in a public health scenario, the ethics of a "job well done" is applied with a bioethical reflection, starting from its quality as a prerequisite for a relationship with the patient that respects the virtue of justice and prudence. The most important policy implications of this topic are the following:
a) Digitalization and the introduction of telemedicine services are useful tools to fix medical democracy improving equity
b) The use of new technologies in medicine has important consequences for medical intelligence policies
c) The creation of new systemic telemedicine makes new international health policy collaborations possible.
Specific areas of interest to this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
• Policies for Digital Medicine;
• Ethics of a "job well done" in Digital Health;
• Digital Medicine and Clinical Risk Management;
• Technology Acceptance and Digital Literacy;
• Individual rights and public health in Digital Health;
• Data Protection, Privacy and Digital Literacy;
• Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence;
• Connected Care and organizational models for community and home health care;
• Medical internet of things and big data in healthcare.
The Topic Editors encourage manuscript submissions that provide evaluation results on these themes.
