Leveraging the potential of digital health requires effective education and learning solutions for health professionals, patients, the caregivers, and the public. Education is essential to enable innovation, develop talent pipelines and careers, and build a workforce with the skills to deliver intelligence-based health care. At the same time advances in Artificial Intelligence, digital technology and big data are making it possible to create more accessible and interactive educational experiences between and beyond traditional education providers and settings. The relationship between technologies, educators, learners, practitioners, and other stakeholders is changing with the result that education is becoming more interdisciplinary, connected, and digitally enabled.
Future digital health requires more prediction and prevention focused curricula, as well as modes of education delivery that train professionals and patients to use digital health technologies. Digitally enabled learning in the health professions will make greater use of blended learning and remote learning to facilitate digital health literacy. During the pandemic we have seen the potential for emancipatory digital health and empowerment of patients and student communities through digital means. Equity, diversity, and inclusion perspectives on education for digital health are becoming clearer, especially in relation to overcoming health disadvantages and knowledge exchange about global health issues.
The goal of the Research Topics below is to generate knowledge on education, learning, and research projects ideas for digital health. We are hoping to draw together world-leading research for the benefit of global knowledge exchange. A collection of research and review articles will be important for developing the foundational pedagogies and educational frameworks for future digital health.
ISDHE tries to foster top research ideas as support for new European consortia for research projects implementation
Topics of interest include
- Digitally enhanced simulated, clinical, technical, and relational learning experiences
- The role of digital in expanding access to education and facilitating inclusive education
- Using digital data and algorithms to understand skills shortages, gaps in education and the valued added by education
- Learning and projects of telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth, pHealth, and uHealth
- Digitally enabled reinforcement learning, behavioural change, simulation, assessment, feedback, and digital learning resources
- Pathways to health and wellbeing through digital health education
We particularly welcome research ideas and articles that are co-authored by educators, stakeholders and students or describe co-created educational or digital learning experiences, and research projects.
Related topics of e-health and medical bioengineering
- Medical informatics
- Medical robotics and actuators
- Medical records, clinical, epidemiological and multimedia databases
- Medical imaging, image and biosignal processing and analysis
- Biosignal processing
- Hospital information systems and healthcare networks
- Telemedicine, e-health and telecommunications
- Wearable systems and sensors, m-health and p-health systems
- Internet in healthcare and medical web portals
- Cloud computing
- Decision support systems and artificial intelligence in medicine
- Bioinformatics
- Internet and network applications
- Wireless sensor networks
- Laser technology and optical communication
- Mathematics for healthcare
- Microelectronics
- Healthcare in the space environment
- Healthcare in military domain
- Optoelectronics for health
- Renewable energy sources for medical devices and healthcare
- Embedded systems
- Computational Biology
- Biomechanics
- Biomaterials
- Micro and nanotechnology for medicine
- Medical physics and biophysics
- Chemistry applied in medicine
- Medical devices and equipment
- Measurement and instrumentation in bioengineering
- Biometrics, Forensics and Security
- Health technology assessment
- Rehabilitative and assistive technologies
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Biotechnologies
- Instrumental Analysis and Laboratory Technologies
- Molecular bioengineering
- Bioengineering in dental and oral health
- Food Science and Technology
- Multimedia applications for medical and healthcare education and e-learning
- Systems Biology
- Modeling and simulation methodologies
- Environmental Protection and Management. Impacts on Health and Safety
- Virtual Physiological Human
- Neurosciences
- Economics and Health Informatics
- Management and marketing in healthcare
- Psychology and Health
- Ethical and legal aspects of e-health and telemedicine
- Biomedical sciences communication and career development
- Innovation, development and interdisciplinary research
Related issues are also welcome