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

Philippe Bardy, Senior Lecturer of English at Paris Descartes University (France)

Part 1. The Person in the Age of Telecare1. The Advent of Digital Healthcare2. The Human Ethical Challenge Part 2. Telecare Phenomenology3. A Cross-Dimensional Look at the 'Patient Experience'.4. The Patient Experience Under Telemonitoring5. The Person Standing the Test of Digital Clocks6. Experiential knowledge of the 'Subject of Care Part 3. Toward an Ethics of "Time-sensitive Telecare'7. Subjectivising the Future: or the 'Patient Project' Temporality8. 'Chrono-Sensitivity': From Concepts to Ethics