UFSP Digital Religion(s), University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2023 Jan-Mar;29(1):114-131. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2022.2040895. Epub 2022 Mar 8.
In recent years, and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, telehealth has been rapidly introduced into U.S. healthcare institutions. While preliminary data and best practices are beginning to emerge, it remains unclear how chaplains are responding to this development in practice. Consequently, professional organizations have tended to lag behind the changing demands of increasingly digital professional environments. This article addresses this gap by presenting three case studies of U.S. healthcare settings where chaplains have become an integral component of telehealth infrastructure: the Mercy system, Ascension Health, and the Veteran's Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Based on interviews with chaplains and directors of chaplaincy departments, it shows how the 'telechaplains' at these institutions have adapted to the introduction of telehealth across the continuum of care, and discusses the legal, economic, practical and theological challenges and hopes reported in each case.
近年来，尤其是自新冠疫情以来，远程医疗在美国医疗机构中迅速普及。虽然初步数据和最佳实践开始出现，但尚不清楚教堂司事在实践中对此发展的反应如何。因此，专业组织往往跟不上日益数字化的专业环境的变化需求。本文通过介绍美国医疗保健环境中三位教堂司事成为远程医疗基础设施不可或缺组成部分的案例研究来填补这一空白： Mercy 系统、Ascension Health 和美国退伍军人事务部退伍军人健康管理局。通过对教堂司事和教堂司事部门主管的访谈，展示了这些机构的“远程教堂司事”如何适应整个医疗保健连续体中远程医疗的引入，并讨论了每个案例中报告的法律、经济、实际和神学挑战和希望。
