DIGITIZATION OF HEALTH DATA: IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDICAL RECORDS

Abstract

The digitization of health data was set up as a new media,
space-saving, efficient and promising for transmission and
exploitation of information. If it did not match with the
initial expectation of the care givers staff, it brought tools
of an indeniable quality for patients’ daily life and for
the management of healthcare facilities. The new usage of
time and space and the systematic infiltration of the tool
provoked unexpected disruption in daily healthcare. Digitization also presents itself as an “anti-clinique’’ tool, that
modifies modes of reflexions of the users. The exploitation
of massive data appears as a possible change in paradigm
in the field of medical research. Health workforce has to
take the stock of all those elements to remain actors of the
implémentation of the tool and to give value to what in
the act of caring is not countable.