The Human Challenge of Telemedicine

Telepatients using connected objects to collect time-sensitive data about their health are not neutral carriers of diagnosable symptoms. Patients are persons, or personal beings as well as co-carers, whose personal experience, history and know-how must be acknowledged in time-sensitive telecare practices. Such practices require a relational ethics, inspired by medical ethics and an ethics of virtues, focusing on vulnerability and emotional health, to oversee telecare good practices, define a new therapeutic alliance compliant with patients’ values, and reconcile the technical and human sides of telemedicine.

• The ethical challenges of telemedicine in chronic patients today
• The key features of a person-centered and relational ethics in telemedical settings
• The concepts of “emotional health” care and “chrono-sensitivity” of the “connected” sick body

Academic, institutional researchers, (Tele)medical professionals, Industrial partners (connected health, health data systems, engineers), Patient associations, Medical Institutions staff

Part 1. The Person in the Age of Telecare
1. The Advent of Digital Healthcare
2. The Human Ethical Challenge

Part 2. Telecare Phenomenology
3. A Cross-Dimensional Look at the 'Patient Experience'.
4. The Patient Experience Under Telemonitoring
5. The Person Standing the Test of Digital Clocks
6. Experiential knowledge of the 'Subject of Care

Part 3. Toward an Ethics of “Time-sensitive” Telecare'
7. Subjectivising the Future: or the 'Patient Project' Temporality
8. 'Chrono-Sensitivity': From Concepts to Ethics