INTELLIGENT FLATS. BRIDGE OR ABYSS?

The comfort and security are features we want to represent all things we interact with. A fortiori, the challenges go up when our health is at stake. If we add the age or an illness that keeps you down the bed the situation is more critical. The ethical debates are concerned with the abyss existing between the doctor and the patient, when the treatment is excessively intermediated by technologies. The ethical issues deal with the confidentiality, the confidence in the physician, the patient's safety and the developing of social handicaps related to the lack of direct communication. The technologies evolved to such a degree that intelligent flats, aimed at a complete monitoring of the patient and at sending the data to any medical health care providing institution were developed. These lead to a doctor-patient relationship beyond the classical medical office.