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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface: Info-communication Perspectives on Digital Health Communication -- P.1. The French and Quebec health systems as a heuristic context for analysis -- P.2. Information and communication sciences: a theoretical corpus and methodologies for understanding digital communication in healthcare -- P.3. For a critical approach to digital health communication -- P.4. Digital health communication in the workplace -- P.5. Digital communication in health: between strategic communication, public space and empowerment

P.6. Digital health communication: the promise of cognitive, social and emotional support -- P.7. And finally, how can we take care of digital workers? -- P.8. Diagnosis and treatment -- P.9. References -- Acknowledgments -- Author Biographies -- Introduction: Updating Issues of Digital Health Communication -- I.1. What about digital care workers? -- I.2. What about digital communication in health... ethical, empowering and emancipating? -- I.3. What about new digital mediations of health knowledge? -- PART 1: Digital Patient Records: Organizational Adaptations

1 Paradoxical Changes and Injunctions in an Implementation Project of the Digital Patient Record -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Organizational paradoxes and paradoxical injunctions -- 1.3. A case study of an implementation project for digital patient records -- 1.4. Resolving the organizational paradox at the individual level -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. References -- 2 Identifying Caregiver Practices by Analyzing the Use of Electronic Medical Records -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Review of the management science literature on professional practices and uses of electronic patient records

2.3. Professional practices and the use of tools at the heart of the conceptual framework: the "instrumental genesis" -- 2.4. Methodology -- 2.5. Results -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 2.7. References -- 3 Communication Approach to Patients' Health Work: Remote Relationship and Intertwined Powers -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Reconstructing patients' work -- 3.3. Field and method -- 3.4. Remote relationship and intertwined powers -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. Acknowledgments -- 3.7. References -- PART 2: Care and Social Support: From Institutional Responses to Online Support

4 The Place of Care in the E-coordination of Home Care and Assistance -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Home care coordination issues -- 4.3. Impacts on the logic of care, roles and identities -- 4.4. Uses and practices of the PAACO-Globule dispositive in a support network for the coordination of complex pathways in the South Gironde region -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- 5 Breast Cancer Prevention Online in a Crisis of Confidence Context: From Medical-Technical Discourse to Social Support -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Prevention and crisis context

5.3. Methodological choices for the analysis of an online exchange space.

Includes bibliographical references and index.