ICT&health November 4, 2024
Although technology holds the potential to revolutionize healthcare, it is only as valuable as the trust it engenders – concluded experts at the World Health Summit 2024 (13-15 October, Berlin). A wrap-up of the panel discussion “Navigating Trust in Healthcare: Human Connection in the Digital Age.”
Unstable trust in stormy times
Digital health transformation – necessary to address current healthcare challenges – overlaps with geopolitical and social tensions, economic upheaval, uncertainty related to the rise of artificial intelligence, and the overall decreasing public trust in scientific institutions.
Some hope that digital health is a game-changer that will democratize healthcare. At the same time, some are skeptical, bringing up the example of social media, which was also supposed to bring people...