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The Impact of IoT on Digital Health

Guest Editors:
José Alberto Benítez-Andrades: University of León, Spain
Alessia Paglialonga: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy


New Content ItemBMC Digital Health called for submissions to a Collection on novel developments involving IoT technologies aimed at enhancing healthcare, including, but not limited to, the prediction and diagnosis of health conditions,  treatments,  patient monitoring and healthcare delivery in general. Research exploring the streamlining of healthcare resources and the global impact of IoT technology on healthcare were considered.

Please email Alison Cuff, the inhouse editor for BMC Digital Health, (alison.cuff@biomedcentral.com) if you would like more information.

Meet the Guest Editors

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José Alberto Benítez-Andrades: University of León, Spain

New Content ItemJosé Alberto Benítez-Andrades, Ph.D. works as an assistant professor at the University of León. His research interests include artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering, semantic technologies and social network analysis applied to different fields, especially in Health. He has served on several international conference committees since 2018 (CBMS, MTSR, HEALTHINF), is an evaluator of technical and research projects for the ministry and other certification bodies (ANEP, EQA), has presented at more than 20 international conferences and has more than 35 articles indexed in JCR journals.

Alessia Paglialonga: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy

New Content ItemAlessia Paglialonga (PhD, Biomedical Engineering) is Research Scientist at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications (IEIIT), Data Science and AI laboratory. She is Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Visiting Scientist at Ryerson University, Canada, Health Prediction Lab. Her current research interests include eHealth and IoMT, AI and data analytics for health, biomedical signal processing, data modelling and health prediction.

About the collection

New Content ItemThe Internet of Things (IoTs) is undoubtedly having a significant impact on the healthcare sector; there are potentially a myriad of benefits to the industry via networks of digital devices collecting, transmitting and storing  health data without the need human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

BMC Digital Health called for submissions to a Collection on novel developments involving IoT technologies aimed at enhancing healthcare, including, but not limited to, the prediction and diagnosis of health conditions,  treatments,  patient monitoring and healthcare delivery in general. Research exploring the streamlining of healthcare resources and the global impact of IoT technology on healthcare were considered.

Please email Alison Cuff, the inhouse editor for BMC Digital Health, (alison.cuff@biomedcentral.com) if you would like more information. 

  1. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development and application of telemonitoring, enabling health care providers to continue to provide medical care. Telemonitoring oftentimes replaced face-to-face health c...

    Authors: Ineke Bolt, Jona Specker and Maartje Schermer
    Citation: BMC Digital Health 2023 1:47
    Content type: Research Published on: