Digital Health Technology for Pediatric Chronic Condition Management

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to serve as guest editors for this Special Issue of Children, entitled “Digital Health Technology for Pediatric Chronic Condition Management”. Many children and adolescents live with one or more chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, and depression. Chronic health conditions adversely impact not only children’s health but also overall psychosocial wellbeing, normal development, academic success, and lifelong achievement. Therefore, promoting optimal management of chronic conditions by patients and/or their families is vitally important to protect young people from detrimental yet avoidable short-term and long-term consequences, while maximizing their potential to become fulfilling and productive members of society. Digital health technologies (mobile applications, sensor devices, websites, virtual and augmented reality, etc.) offer innovative and scalable solutions to increase access to chronic condition management. Yet, the majority of available digital health technology solutions target adult audiences. Digital health technology solutions are needed to support the unique developmental and biopsychosocial needs of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions. More accumulated empirical evidence is needed to accelerate the pipeline of pediatric digital health technology innovations to support chronic condition management.

This Special Issue will be a forum where investigators share empirical evidence generated by a variety of research efforts to develop a new digital health technology or evaluate existing or ongoing technologies for feasibility and/or clinical efficacies in pediatric chronic condition management.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, that will stimulate the continuing efforts to explore the potential of digital health technology in reducing the burden of pediatric chronic health conditions on individual patients, families, and healthcare systems. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Hyekyun Rhee
Dr. Jennifer Sonney
Guest Editors

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• chronic health condition
• disease management
• patient education
• digital technology
• mHealth
• sensor technology
• web-based technology