Call for Papers: Theme: Revisiting Electronic Health in the Era of Digital Lifestyles
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全文截稿: 2018-12-31
影响因子: 8.21
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Overview
It has been forecasted by the World Economic Forum that by 2040, annual global healthcare spending will be about US$25 trillion[1]. Technological developments in diverse areas such as the Internet of Things, big data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, and mobile technologies are likely to shape how healthcare and other services are delivered, particularly in the developing world (Chandwani et al. 2018; Dwivedi et al. 2016; Kshetri, 2016; Wang et al, 2018). For instance, healthcare is arguably one of the areas with the biggest applications of IoT supported by big data analytics. One estimate suggested that by 2020, healthcare applications will account for 15% of the global IoT applications[2].
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines digital healthcare as “the transfer of health resources and healthcare by electronic means”. Digital health has emerged in the past two decades from standalone efforts at digitization of medical records (Williams & Boren, 2008) through the epoch of viability as a digital platform as a service to the current context of health-on-a-cloud anytime, anyplace (Sultan 2014). Current trends and practices have underscored the feasibility of digital health to emerge as a global service. It is imperative to conceive a ‘logic’ to organize the resulting “health-on-a-cloud” and to be archived as a state-of-the-art set of trends and practices (Stephanie & Sharma, 2018). This Special Section serves such a purpose in that it seeks to bring researchers and scholars together in focusing on the critical and current issues confronting the continued growth and development of digital healthcare.
Given that Digital Healthcare is not a nascent technology (Sultan 2014), research papers which make new contributions to theory, methodology and empirical results are specifically invited. With inter-operable, digital health records at the core (Williams & Boren, 2008), the proposed Special Section is targeted at (but not restricted to) the following topics.
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Healthcare.
- Crowdsourcing Platforms for Digital Health.
- Issues Confronting the Inter-operability of Global Health Networks.
- Current Applications of Augmented Reality in Digital Healthcare.
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things for Digital Healthcare.
- Models and Use Cases for Precision Health Analytics.
- Principles and Use Cases of the Blockchain for Digital Health.
- Digital Health and healthcare accessibility issues in the developing world