Chapter Digital Health

Digital health is a key topic within Science and Technology Studies (STS). This chapter outlines central aspects of digital health, including electronic health records, telemedicine, eHealth, and mHealth. Drawing on empirical examples, it examines how digital health technologies shape healthcare pra...

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description Digital health is a key topic within Science and Technology Studies (STS). This chapter outlines central aspects of digital health, including electronic health records, telemedicine, eHealth, and mHealth. Drawing on empirical examples, it examines how digital health technologies shape healthcare practices and affect the distribution of benefits, risks, and burdens. As a theme, digital health illustrates central tensions dealt with in STS between technological determinism and social determinism, as well as between technology optimism and pessimism. The chapter underscores the ongoing relevance of STS in understanding and critically analyzing digital health phenomena.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1700742025-12-11T05:16:33Z Chapter Digital Health Langstrup, Henriette Hoeyer, Klaus Digital health technological determinism social determinism technological optimism technological pessimism telemedicine thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology Digital health is a key topic within Science and Technology Studies (STS). This chapter outlines central aspects of digital health, including electronic health records, telemedicine, eHealth, and mHealth. Drawing on empirical examples, it examines how digital health technologies shape healthcare practices and affect the distribution of benefits, risks, and burdens. As a theme, digital health illustrates central tensions dealt with in STS between technological determinism and social determinism, as well as between technology optimism and pessimism. The chapter underscores the ongoing relevance of STS in understanding and critically analyzing digital health phenomena. 2025-12-11T05:16:32Z 2025-12-11T05:16:32Z 2025-12-10T11:44:40Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20251210T124230_[...]_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109047 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170074 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109047/1/LangstrupHoeyer.pdf Edward Elgar Publishing Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c 9cfb98ae-ae5f-4753-86b0-95f05e6c2bd7 547d0421-ca5a-4b08-82f0-0e04050bcc57 3307e48d-d9f4-4d77-a5f8-fbd1912c6ec8 EU collection 13 682110 European Research Council (ERC) Horizon 2020 European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 10.13039/501100007601 open access
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technological optimism
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