Digital Health Innovations in Caregiver Support and Empowerment: From Artificial Intelligence to Telehealth
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 November 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: caregivers; empowerment; health education; digital technology-based interventions; eHealth; clinical supervision; psychometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Family and informal caregivers play a vital role in providing long-term, home-based care for individuals with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and age-related conditions. However, they often face substantial emotional, physical, and informational challenges, particularly when support from healthcare systems is limited. In recent years, digital health technologies have emerged as powerful tools to assist, empower, and train caregivers, offering scalable and personalized solutions that bridge gaps in care and communication.
The aim of this Special Issue, therefore, is to explore how technological innovations—including artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth, mobile health (mHealth) applications, remote monitoring systems, and smart home solutions—can transform the caregiving experience. It will focus on tools that support caregivers in daily tasks, health monitoring, decision-making, communication with professionals, and reducing caregiver burden, aligning with the journal’s scope of promoting sustainable, person-centered healthcare.
We welcome a range of submissions, including original research (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods), systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, pilot and feasibility studies, evaluations of digital interventions, case studies, implementation reports, and health policy or ethical analyses. Interdisciplinary contributions from health sciences, nursing, social work, engineering, computer science, public health, bioethics, and digital ethics are strongly encouraged.
Through this Special Issue, we seek to foster evidence-based insights into how digital technologies can be harnessed to empower caregivers across diverse contexts—ultimately contributing to more sustainable, inclusive, and person-centered models of care.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Teresa Martins
Guest Editor
Dr. Diana Rodrigues
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- caregivers
- telemedicine
- mobile health units
- artificial intelligence
- remote monitoring
- health education
- health technology
- smart homes
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