Towards Pervasive Health-Centric Care Systems: Empowering Patients and Citizens Through Sensors and Collaboration Technologies
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2019) | Viewed by 15109
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drone applications; data fusion; interaction; augmented reality; data analytics
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Interests: ambient intelligence; human computer interaction; pervasive healthcare; pervasive computing; sensors for healthcare
Interests: multiple sclerosis; mHealth; patient empowerment; user-centered design
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Interests: energy efficient embedded systems; Internet of Things; wearable devices, body area networks; wireless sensor networks; smart cities and communities; ambient intelligence; human computer interaction; motor rehabilitation; pervasive healthcare
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The digitalization of healthcare creates opportunities for services that allow patients to play a stronger role in their care. For example, shared decision-making tools can empower patients in care-related decisions, sensor devices can help patients in building self-awareness of their health, and digital platforms provide new ways for patients to communicate with their peers and care professionals. Service design offers tools for harnessing these new digital enablers for patient empowerment through understanding ecosystems, user journeys and value co-creation models needed for successful implementation and adoption in the context of care.
In this context, this Special Issue welcomes contributions on technology advances applied to patient empowerment and clinician support, and experiences of technology-based clinical pathway improvement.
In particular, the following topics are proposed (although other connected topics may be also suitable for submission):
- Tailored technologies and services for person/patient empowerment, from prevention to treatment (IoT solutions, mobile applications, artificial intelligence-based systems, etc.).
- Sensors and sensor intensive applications.
- Big data infrastructures and predictive strategies for patient support.
- Works on persuasive interfaces, serious gaming and motivation strategies for treatment adherence.
- Novel approaches on interfaces for patient empowerment. Use of virtual reality, augmented reality, conversational agents, etc.
- Caregiver–patient collaboration frameworks for decision-making.
- Specific approaches to tackle interoperability, usability, security, in the personalization of the clinical service pathway.
- Experiences of clinical pathway transformation driven by pervasive technologies.
- Cases of the use of pervasive and social technologies for disease support.
- Description and application of service design methodologies in healthcare.
- Prospective studies on the potential of pervasive technologies as agent of change in traditional healthcare systems.
- Privacy-by-design and other methods to guarantee privacy.
Apart from regular submissions, selected papers from the 6th international EAI 2nd IMPACT 2019 Workshop (collocated with the PervasiveHealth Conference 2019, http://pervasivehealth.org/workshop-impact/) that are significantly extended will be also included in the Special Issue.
Dr. Ana M. Bernardos
Dr. Minna Isomursu
Dr. Guido Giunti
Dr. Elisabetta Farella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Pervasive health
- Wearable sensors
- IoT
- Service design
- Patient empowerment
- Data analysis
