The educator in the evolving contexts of digital health.

Transdisciplinary research on education and digital medicine to enhance the quality of life of cancer patients

Abstract

In post-covid healthcare contexts, characterized by an extreme acceleration in digitization processes (EIT Health, 2020), educational research reproposes a pedagogy attentive to the relationship between the person and socio-cultural dynamics: ‘person-centredness’ and ‘patient-experience’ (Wolf et al, 2014) are valued in care processes through the mediation of the educator, called to promote patient’s empowerment in renewed preventive contexts (Perla, Massaro 2022).

This contribution reports the preliminary steps of a transdisciplinary research designed within the Uniba Telemedicine Centre with the double goals of promoting participation and quality of life of cancer patients through the connection of the AI-based area of medicine with the educational area of care in digital narrative medicine paths with the aim of co-building clinical knowledge and re-appropriation of experience on the patient’s side,  and expanding the spaces for experimenting educational skills in contexts that are currently heavily traversed by digital innovation.