| PLOS ONE is excited to announce a Call for Papers for research on digital health technologies. Bringing together engineers, computer and information scientists, social and behavioral scientists, public health researchers, and clinicians working on mHealth technologies, we welcome research ranging from technology design to patient care and health systems management. Our Guest Editors Eun Kyoung Choe, Chelsea Dobbins, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, and Claudia Pagliari are particularly interested in papers that describe the translation of data insights into action, aiming to close the loop between stakeholders and new or existing technologies. |
| Realising the potential benefits of these developments depends on many factors, not least the quality, provenance and interpretability of the data, the usability of the technologies they give rise to, their successful translation into practice and their ethical governance.” — Dr. Claudia Pagliari, Guest Editor |
| From our Guest Editor, Claudia Pagliari: “Digital systems and data are now ubiquitous in the context of healthcare delivery and in the lives of consumers, driven by the rise of mobiles, wearables, Internet of Things, social media and biometrics. Emerging methods of capturing, aggregating and processing these novel data streams, alongside electronic patient records, are yielding new insights about the health of populations, groups and individuals, both in the present and, with predictive analytics, in the future. |
Likewise they are seeding new tools and services to inform and guide health decisions. Realising the potential benefits of these developments depends on many factors, not least the quality, provenance and interpretability of the data, the usability of the technologies they give rise to, their successful translation into practice and their ethical governance.” |