Digital Technologies to Support Health and Wellbeing
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 (1 April 2023) | Viewed by 7715
Special Issue Editors
2. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
3. Partners In Health, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Interests: digital health; health information; decision support; informatics; electronic medical records
Interests: digital health; health information; decision support; informatics; electronic medical records
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital technologies are revolutionizing the health care sector. This revolution provides unique opportunities to improve health quality and coverage. However, it also comes with challenges related to the harmonization of devices and data systems, data quality, data security, and ethical concerns regarding the confidentiality of health records. This Special Issue focuses on the continuum of health care supported by digital technologies: from disease screening and detection in the community, to triage, and clinical decision support, as well as electronic medical records in health facilities, central health information systems enabling ministries of health, and public health departments for exploring disease trends and making data-driven decisions. We invite submissions of articles that offer evaluations of digital tools in these settings—integration and interoperability of systems—enforcing good software development standards and practices, as well as ethical and data security challenges surrounding their development, implementation, and use. We accept most types of articles: conventional research articles, reviews, case reports, and commentary/viewpoints, and encourage the submission of high-quality, descriptive and hypothesis-generating papers focusing on innovative software features and functionalities, as well as digital health landscape analyses.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Digital applications for community health workers;
- Digitization of clinical guidelines;
- Development and use of clinical decision support tools;
- Digitization of patient records;
- Development and use of clinical dashboards;
- Health management information systems;
- Integration and interoperability of digital applications;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
- Ethics around digital patient data storage, transmission and use;
- System security;
- Digital health equity.
Dr. Alexandra V. Kulinkina
Dr. Sabine Renggli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital health
- health information
- decision support
- informatics
- electronic medical records
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