RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Emerging Issue of Digital Empathy
JF American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
JO Am J Pharm Educ
FD American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
SP 58
DO 10.5688/ajpe80458
VO 80
IS 4
A1 Terry, Christopher
A1 Cain, Jeff
YR 2016
UL http://www.ajpe.org/content/80/4/58.abstract
AB Empathy can have strong positive effects on patient outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce malpractice litigation. With modern advances in technology, however, the appropriate expression of empathy in today’s age is being threatened, largely as a result of psychological processes that form online disinhibition. The digitization of health care and the corresponding decrease in the expression of empathy may be cause for concern. Because empathy is strongly correlated to positive health outcomes and is an important part of health professions in general, the construct of digital empathy should be considered for integration into health professions curricula.