Health Promotion Using New Technology

Dear Colleagues,

There is no question that technology is rapidly evolving and is regularly being reinvented. Innovations in the field comprise multi-billion-dollar industries for areas like gaming, education, and entertainment. For health promotion, the evaluation of new technologies extends across all disciplines and timepoints within the healthcare journey. These technologies extend from artificial intelligence, mixed reality technologies, robotics, and sensors, to wearable technologies, genome sequencing, telemedicine, and electronic health record systems. Opportunities for innovation are limited only by the imagination, willpower, and securing openminded research funders.

However, health is notoriously slow to adapt to technological developments, despite a growing evidence base supporting effectiveness across many health outcomes in many areas. There remain ongoing concerns of cyber security, data privacy, and low access among the most disadvantaged, which risks widening health inequality gaps.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the latest research in technological innovation across the health-promotion spectrum. It will provide an overview of how technological disruptors have revolutionized health promotion over time, identify barriers and enablers for existing technology-delivered health-promotion programs, identify the next wave of technological innovation for health promotion, and provide a scaffold for future health promotion programs that intend to use technology-supported mechanisms for delivery and evaluation.

Prof. Kristin Carson-Chahhoud
Prof. Ross T. Smith
Guest Editors

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