Digital Health Revolution: Advances in Wearable, Epidermal and Implantable Sensors for Medical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in wearable, epidermal, and implantable sensors have allowed for objective patient monitoring at an unprecedented scale and granularity. These devices, and the data they provide, are on the cusp of revolutionizing how patients experience healthcare, with broad implications for diagnosing, preventing, monitoring, and treating disease. Such platforms enable continuous monitoring of biophysical and biochemical signals that were previously inaccessible to the field of medicine. The resulting vast expansion of collected data now necessitates the development of new algorithms, data science tools, and analytical approaches to extract meaningful insight relevant to human health. This Special Issue aims to gather novel contributions to the field of wearable, epidermal, and implantable sensors for medical applications. Papers that highlight novel hardware and/or methodological developments, validation of these technologies in human subjects, and systematic reviews of the literature are encouraged. Papers that describe new approaches to collecting and analyzing multimodal data or novel physiological variables are of particular interest. Where appropriate, we strongly encourage authors to deposit their source code, data, and design files in a public repository (e.g., GitHub) to help accelerate progress in this field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following keywords.  

Dr. Ryan S. McGinnis
Dr. Tyler Ray
Guest Editors

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