Patients 2.0: Capabilities and Resilience in the Digital Society

The digital society has significantly contributed to reshaping the framework within which the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals is defined. The «Digital Society» is characterized by three main distinctive features: The fast development of new technologies; The change in communication systems; The transformation in human relationships. For these reasons, today patients have new opportunities to really make decisions and choices about their health freely. They have many options among which to choose what is better for them with respect to treatments, medications, drugs, etc. However, they are not always able to make these choices. The risk is that, together with the new opportunities of acquiring useful information, there is a threat of misinformation and fake news