DIGITAL TRANSITION AND RIGHT TO HEALTH
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Abstract
The health systems of industrialized countries are facing multiple challenges that make it increasingly complex to guarantee the right to health in an equitable manner for the entire population. Technological innovation processes fit into this context, and in particular those linked to the introduction of information and communication technologies in healthcare. In light of this, analyzing the interplay between the right to health and digital health services is an increasingly concrete need, as much as it is to understand whether, to what extent, and through which tools, such interplay can generate a legal claim on an individual level, an attempt with which we will measure ourselves in the continuation of this work.
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