Digital economics: system of automatized management of work conditions, risk factors and development of information hygiene

Abstract

The article covers legal problems of digital economics or “Industry 4.0”, and National technologic initiative based mostly on informational communication technologies. The authors demonstrated changes and increases in professional community for digital economics, including new medical occupations for preventive medicine. Based on analysis of work conditions for information technologies workers in EU, and of trends and prospects, the authors sysematized advantages and drawbacks of digital economics from occupational medicine viewpoint. Necessity to specify new occupational descriptive parameters and criteria for evaluating emotional strain of operators, as well as methods and criteria in medical psychology and occupational pathology to evaluate borderline conditions of cognitive functions and psychosomatic disorders, based on allostatic exertion assessment in chronic stress. As digital economics develops on basis of informational communication technologies, informational hygiene as a new sphere of occupational medicine becomes a priority.