e-health meets technoethical issues

Abstract

e-health refers to health actors’ intensive use of computer networking. it posesspecific ethical questions, at the intersection between technoethics and medicalethics. Here, i will provide an interpretation from the point of view of technoethics ofthe current hurdles preventing the implementation of e-health. i argue that thisimplementation is inspired by a “digitally closed” system of values, which issuccinctly defined in the article. This technoethical option is consistent with thetechnocracy option in the public administration of health. This account of the hurdlesshows that e-health could be implemented with a better acceptance by harnessing theopposite system of values, here defined as “digitally open”, which is strikinglyconsistent with the ethics of autonomy