Convergence of Digital Technologies and Healthcare
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 257
Special Issue Editor
2. The Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Interests: biomedical informatics; data science; mHealth
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many aspects of our lives are undergoing tremendous digital transformation. Underpinning this transformation are new developments and innovations in multiple fields, such as computing sciences, social sciences, and health sciences. Digital technologies have the potential to transform healthcare in ways we have not thought of yet. However, many challenges must be overcome before the benefits can be fully realized. For example, the importance of sharing digital health data across different levels of care, institutions, and countries is becoming increasingly clear, yet safe and trustworthy sharing remains a challenge.
A serious consideration of the convergence of digital technologies and healthcare promises a greater understanding of the role technology advancements can play in solving important challenges in healthcare. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) turns the spotlight on the important knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities and also highlights novel applications and evaluations of digital technologies in the healthcare domain.
Contributions to this call can include original research and reviews related to the following topics (or other topics closely related to biomedical informatics):
- Sustainable and green digital solutions in healthcare;
- Health data spaces for both primary and secondary use of health data;
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning in healthcare;
- Natural language processing, clinical text mining;
- Blockchain, smart contracts in healthcare applications;
- Patient-generated data, personal health records;
- mHealth and wearables;
- Social media in healthcare;
- Electronic health records, structured and unstructured data;
- COVID-19, post-pandemic evaluation, and data analytics;
- Organizational, governance, health policy, and financing;
- Ethics and legal aspects;
- Human factors, usability, user experience;
- Knowledge representation and modeling;
- Interoperability, standards, terminologies, coding, and classification;
- Translational research, implementation, evaluation;
- Accessibility, disability, special needs, aging;
- Decision support;
- Care models and workflow;
- Gamification;
- Cloud computing and applications;
- Health informatics education and capacity building;
- Disease surveillance, epidemiology, and public health;
- Societal and citizen involvement;
- Security, cybersecurity, and privacy;
- Telemedicine, rehabilitation, assistive technologies, and home monitoring.
Dr. Taridzo Chomutare
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomedical informatics
- eHealth
- telemedicine
- mHealth
- data science
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