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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ELDERLY IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS – THE NEED TO IMPLEMENT NEW LEGAL SOLUTIONS
Ewa M. KWIATKOWSKA1
Health Safety– some transformative examples
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 19 March 2021
Keywords: seniors, digital exclusion, COVID-19, digitisation, information and communication technologies, m-health
Abstract With the aging of societies and the growing possibilities of modern medicine, healthcare systems face new challenges. The ongoing digital transformation may allow for some of them to be overcome, i.a. enabling the provision of some remote healthcare services. Such activities can not only reduce costs, but also increase the quality of the patients’ life by alowing them to stay, for as long as possible period, in a known, safe environment. The aim of the article is to outline the possibilities of providing health care services aimed for the elderly, while taking particularly into account the actual level of digital exclusion of recipients and to identify the need to implement legal and actual solutions in this area. A multi-faceted analysis of the current situation was made, and de lege ferenda proposals were also presented. Due to the aging society, it seems particularly important to introduce solutions in which digital technology will become an asset, and not a burden, in the fight for health and adignified life of the most senior patients.
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0001-7576-1996
E-mail: ekwiatkowska@kozminski.edu.pl