Digital Health in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

Ubiquitous progress in wearable sensing and mobile computing technologies, alongside growing diversity in sensor modalities, has created new pathways for the collection of health and wellbeing data outside of laboratory settings, in a longitudinal fashion. In the COVID-19 era, wearable and mobile devices have the potential to provide low-cost, objective measures of physical activity, clinically relevant data for patient assessment, and scalable behavior monitoring in large populations.

Indeed, the last decade has seen a significant expansion in the development and use of mobile and wearable devices to monitor physical behaviors such as activity, sleep, or circadian rhythms, as well as other aspects of human behavior and even physiology in real time, anytime, anywhere. The use of such technology presents a significant reduction of costs and inefficiencies while improving access and personalization.

In this Special Issue, we welcome research showcasing how in the COVID-19 era we can employ mobile and wearable technologies to accurately monitor physical behaviors, diagnose and intervene in disease, or enhance healthcare delivery for the individual. In particular, we would be interested in research that combines signal processing alongside recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning or bioinformatics with mobile and wearable technology. We encourage original articles, software articles, reviews, perspectives, and letters.

Dr. Joao Palotti
Dr. Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo
Dr. Shabbir Syed-Abdul
Dr. Mohamed-Amine Choukou
Guest Editors

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