Wearable (or Electronic) Devices to Enhance Personalized Medicine
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 23173
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A variety of electronic devices can characterize health-related behaviors and assist with behavior change interventions. At the same time, consumer wearable devices have become commonplace, with recent forecasts predicting that 240.1 million units will be shipped in 2021. Many of these devices include sensors that can quantify elements of a person’s behavior (e.g., heart rate, physical activity) and the world around them (e.g., air quality, social interaction). Similarly, devices and mobile apps allow for the real-time collection of related health data via the automated administration of health assessments (e.g., mood or anxiety).
In summary, electronic devices continue to offer an ever-growing list of possibilities for healthcare, particularly as second and third generation devices become integrated with larger systems at home and work, while also becoming more affordable. However, many methodological questions, best practices, and issues concerning evaluation remain unanswered. For example, understanding how people interact with and actively use these devices is likely to be essential when attempting to unpick causal pathways as part of any intervention.
This Special Issue aims to gather a collection of papers and reviews that consider how electronic devices can enhance diagnosis and treatment. Papers that document the development of such devices are particularly welcome. Original research articles that demonstrate how new or existing devices can assist with early diagnosis or become part of a future intervention/treatment plan are also encouraged. Finally, studies that report negative, null or inconclusive results play a crucial role in building an accumulative knowledge base and in fostering valid generalized casual inferences, especially though meta-analysis. While these can often be difficult to publish, they will also be given consideration as part of this Special Issue.
Dr. David A. Ellis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Behavior change
- Computational social science
- Digital health
- Digital traces
- Health informatics
- Medical devices and equipment
- Mobile health
- Smartphones
- Wearables
