Innovating Public Health in Smart Society: Technical, Behavioral and Management Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, lots of emerging information technologies are beginning to attract a lot of attention, including mobile Internet, big data, communication technology (5G), cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and so on. The rapid development of these technologies has promoted the intelligence of society. The smart society has improved people’s living standards but also changed people’s habits and ways of thinking.

With the changes in people’s living habits, ways of thinking, forms of communication, and technical support, healthcare is constantly transforming and innovating. Different from traditional medicine, healthcare is combining with emerging technologies to produce effective products, intelligent assisted diagnosis, Internet hospitals, wearable medical devices, intelligent surgical devices, medical big data analysis, online health communities, and other products which have improved people’s medical conditions and health levels.

This Special Issue focuses on how to utilize these transformations and innovations to further promote health, the research perspectives including technology development or application in electronic and smart health, empirical analysis on health behavior, and managerial decision problems in health in smart society. The interests of this Special Issue include these topics related to the considerable research challenges and comprehensive achievements.

The List of Topics may include (but is not limited to):

• Emerging technologies, Internet and health innovation
• Health IT acceptance or involvement.
• Health information systems and chronic diseases
• Behavioral issues in public health science
• Safety, security and privacy of public health information technologies
• Artificial intelligence in public health decision science
• Online health communities
• Big data and Public health informatics
• E-health, smart health and Internet hospitals
• Clinical, public health and genomic data integration
• Health knowledge management, dissemination, communication and health promotion
• Elderly health, ageing care and the combination with public healthcare
• Mobil health and health social networks
• Mobile Apps, wearable devices, Internet-based health IT products
• Operation management and decision science in public health
• Public health policy analysis

Dr. Dongxiao Gu
Prof. Dr. Hemant K Jain
Prof. Jiantong Zhang
Dr. Honglei Li
Prof. Jia Li
Dr. Bin Ding
Guest Editors

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