Digital Humanism And Healthcare

Patients not only have to be put in the center of care, but also in the center of health technology. In a more general manner that’s what digital humanism is about. Instead of technological development serving the interests of big tech companies to the detriment of people by exploiting human weaknesses and by taking control out of their hands, humans should step up and say stop to technology degrading humans, creating or widening gaps in societies, disregarding diversity. Here are some ideas and principles about how that, namely digital humanism, could unfold in healthcare. Technology vs. humans: who has control? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, and co.: for years we have been hearing about how they reshape the world, but the harmful effects of tech companies of the ‘attention economy’ are still not taken seriously enough. Although there are plenty of signs of how harmful they can be for societies. The system is failing, that’s what the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, said two years ago. He emphasized that while digitalization opens unprecedented opportunities, it also raises serious concerns: the monopolization of the Web, the rise of extremist opinions and behavior orchestrated by social media, the formation of filter bubbles and echo chambers as islands of disjoint truths, the loss of privacy, and the spread of digital surveillance. Remember the news about Facebook becoming a central tool for spreading propaganda against the Roh...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine design development digital digital health digital technology ethics Healthcare human human nature humanism Innovation philosophy social sciences society technology design Source Type: blogs