2021 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH)

ICDH will include a broad range of issues and concerns, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

Models and architectures of digital health and integrated digital health care services

Therapeutic algorithms and disease/condition-specific intervention service design (e.g., diabetes, obesity, COPD, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health)

Patient/user-side design for digital health care that may address user needs, social isolation, assisted living for older adults and individuals with special needs, emergencies

Standardizing provider-side and user-side digital health, FHIR resources, profiles and extension for digital health

Delivery pathways co-design and provider/patient acceptability

Informatic, cybernetic and mediatic digital health platforms supportive of implementing digital health-based solutions and architectures

Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and planning and managing care and supply delivery

Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development

Digital health technology to reduce disparity and increase inclusion of under-served and vulnerable communities

Digital health systems, software and services for medication adherence, improving patient and provider communication before, during and after hospital discharge

Digital Services to improve the health delivery outcomes in emergency room and ICU

Services to comply with privacy and security regulation in health care system such as HIPAA

Mobile health (mHealth) services and applications which include the use of mobile devices in collecting community and clinical health data, delivery of healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients

Real-time monitoring of patient vital signs and the direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine) for training and collaboration of health workers

Health economics of services-oriented care delivery systems

Scalability issues for adopting digital health as services

Empirical study on savings in unit and total cost realized by patient and community engagement

The ethics of digital health