Proceedings of the 38th International Academic Conference, Prague

THE DIFFICULTIES OF BECOMING AN E- PATIENT FROM GOOGLE – PATIENT. A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HUNGARY.

ÉVA MÁLOVICS

Abstract:

Information technology is changing rapidly worldwide and so the communication. According to the literature the digital revolution will have a huge impact on how physicians interact with patients. The internet has become a powerful healthcare tool for a lot of people. As a result of these changes e-patient movement has evolved. These changes will have an important affect on the doctor – patient communication and the direction of these relationship became a fundamental question. According to the literature the paternalist physician - patient communication should be replaced by a common decision however, this process requires significant change of attitude from both the patient and the physician. We made in-depth interviews with five patients with serious illness and with five doctors. We used the grounded theory method for analyzing data about the doctor – patient communication. From the results we can see, that there are many appearances of needs to becomes from google patient to e-patient but the habitual barriers of paternalistic doctor-patient communication overwrite this efforts.

Keywords: E-patient, paternalistic communication,shared decisionmaking

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2018.038.022

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