Food for thought on the topics of

solidarity and digital society

Food for thought

How does digitalisation affect solidarity? The Sanitas health insurance foundation presents studies and offers experts and think tanks a platform for debate.

Digitalisation is affecting more and more areas of our life: the insurance industry, healthcare, the working world and society as a whole. How does digitalisation affect solidarity?

Is it likely to strengthen or erode solidarity communities? A number of authors highlight different aspects in articles, interviews, videos and graphics.

Benefits of sharing health data

In today’s digital society, health data can be shared securely and responsibly with doctors and other specialists. Shared data helps people manage their health with more confidence and benefits society as a whole by driving research and innovation. Sharing health data is a new way of showing solidarity.

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Digital responsibility and solidarity

Have ethical principles such as fairness, autonomy, transparency, protection of personal privacy and solidarity been affected by digital change? The white paper “Digital responsibility and solidarity in the insurance industry” provides answers to the question of how companies, the government and consumers can encourage responsible and forward-looking action in the digital age.

To the white paper

More food for thought

  • Personalised health A little-known concept with open questions of solidarity (only in German)
  • Genetics and solidarity What does personalised medicine mean for solidarity in the healthcare and insurance sectors? An interview with political scientist Barbara Prainsack
  • Robots in care professions Expert opinion: Will robots soon be taking over human care?
  • "Contact tracing is not Instagram - the individual is completely uninteresting" An interview with ethicist Dorothea Baur on data sharing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • "New forms of solidarity are needed" As President of the Sanitas Health Insurance Foundation, Felix Gutzwiller examines the consequences of digitalisation. (only in German)
  • Solidarity in the Swiss healthcare system Questions and answers from Valerie Zaslawski
  • What solidarity narratives in the digital world? A compilation of social science approaches - Thesis paper by Andreas Müller and Isabelle Vautravers. (only in German)
  • Self-measurement as a talking diary Interview with the German sociologist Prof Dr Stefan Selke.

Digitalisation, insurance and solidarity

Insurance models as solidarity communities: a blessing or a curse? On behalf of the Sanitas health insurance foundation, the WIRE think tank investigated the links between digitalisation, insurance and solidarity. Find out more in the video (in German) or on the ideas map.
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