Digital tools in occupational health, brakes or levers for building multidisciplinary dynamics?

TL;DR

This paper examines how digital tools influence multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health services, highlighting both challenges and opportunities for organizational and professional development.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the methods and impacts of digital tools on organizational and professional dynamics within occupational health services.

Findings

Digital tools offer new possibilities for action in occupational health.

Challenges include resistance to change and organizational barriers.

Digital tools can facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration when properly integrated.

Abstract

The arrival of digital platforms has revolutionized occupational health by giving the possibility to Occupational Health Services (SPSTI) to acquire databases to offer professionals new possibilities for action. However, in a sector of activity that has been questioning the development of multidisciplinarity for 20 years, the arrival of new tools can sometimes seem to be a quick solution. The study, conducted in a precursor SPSTI in terms of the development of digital tools, aims to take stock of the methods and impacts of instrumental and organizational transformations for health professionals as well as for members of the technical teams of the SPSTI. It is a question of highlighting the brakes and the levers as well as the various possibilities of accompaniment to consider.