The Digital Civilizations Interviews

LEVERS

• Solidification of networks of international cooperation in research and medical practice: doctors and searchers from different countries and cultures rely on advanced communication methods such as videoconference, e-mail, mobile phone, Internet, etc.
• Enhancement of the role of many groups of patients in the structuring and articulation of expression and intervention spaces related to health: scientific, medical, political, economic media ones, etc.
• New models for interaction between professional environments and patients’ associations.
• The Internet constitutes the vector of the new modes of the knowledge production shared between experts and profanes: In this context, patients’ associations and their « electronic groups » play a key role.
• Emergence of new technologies and responsibilities regarding home care, in addition to national and European perspectives in health agencies
• Redefinition of prescriptive, ethical and political issues in the health and medical field: transformation of the national systems of health.
• New forms of militancy for a better recognition of populations or minorities who, in a way or another, are victims of stigmatization or handicap.
• Use and regulation of the simulators of diseases and personalized treatments.
• Commercialization of therapies and auto medication via Internet: brings a solution to the deficit of the national systems of medical and social security.
• Enhanced circulation and transparency of the medical information and marketing policies relative to pharmaceutical products, diagnostics and treatments via Internet.
• Stabilized structuring and certification of medical sites: based on HON label, i.e. Health On the Net.