Aim

The aim of the International Journal of Telehealth and Digital Medicine is to promote the development, evaluation, implementation, and responsible use of digital technologies in healthcare.

The journal seeks to:

• Advance research in telehealth and virtual healthcare delivery.


• Promote innovative digital approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and patient monitoring.


• Support the clinical application of artificial intelligence and machine learning.


• Encourage development and evaluation of mobile health and wearable technologies.


• Improve healthcare accessibility for rural, remote, and underserved populations.


• Promote patient-centered and personalized digital healthcare.


• Examine the effectiveness, usability, safety, and scalability of digital health interventions.


• Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between medicine, technology, engineering, and data science.


• Address ethical, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, and health-equity issues associated with digital healthcare.

Scope of the Journal

The journal can have a wide scope like this:

1. Telehealth & Telemedicine

• Teleconsultation


• Virtual healthcare


• Telemonitoring


• Teletriage


• Store-and-forward telemedicine


• Video-based healthcare


• Telemedicine platforms


• Virtual clinics


• Home-based healthcare

2. Remote Patient Monitoring

• Remote monitoring systems


• Vital-sign monitoring


• Chronic disease monitoring


• Home monitoring


• Continuous patient monitoring


• Connected medical devices


• Remote clinical assessment

3. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

• AI-assisted diagnosis


• Machine learning


• Deep learning


• Generative AI in healthcare


• Predictive analytics


• Clinical decision-support systems


• AI medical imaging


• AI-enabled telemedicine

4. Digital Medicine

• Digital biomarkers


• Digital diagnostics


• Precision digital medicine


• Personalized healthcare


• Digital clinical trials


• Digital phenotyping


• Software as a medical device

5. Mobile Health (mHealth)

• Mobile health applications


• Smartphone-based healthcare


• Health apps


• Mobile disease management


• Medication adherence applications


• Patient engagement technologies


• SMS-based healthcare interventions

6. Wearable & Sensor Technologies

• Smartwatches


• Biosensors


• Wearable medical devices


• Continuous glucose monitoring


• Physiological sensors


• IoT-enabled healthcare


• Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

7. Digital Therapeutics

• Prescription digital therapeutics


• Behavioral interventions


• Digital mental health


• Disease-management applications


• Virtual rehabilitation


• Digital interventions

8. Health Informatics

• Electronic health records


• Health information systems


• Clinical informatics


• Healthcare data analytics


• Big-data healthcare


• Interoperability


• Health information exchange

9. Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

• Healthcare cybersecurity


• Patient-data protection


• Privacy-preserving technologies


• Secure telemedicine


• Data governance


• Blockchain in healthcare


• Regulatory compliance

10. Digital Public Health

• Digital epidemiology


• Population health


• Digital disease surveillance


• Public-health applications


• Digital health education


• Global digital health


• Health equity

11. Specialized Telemedicine

• Telecardiology


• Teledermatology


• Telepsychiatry


• Teleoncology


• Teleophthalmology


• Telepathology


• Teleradiology


• Telerehabilitation


• Telepediatrics


• Telegeriatrics


• Teleobstetrics


• Teledentistry

12. Emerging Technologies

• Virtual reality


• Augmented reality


• Digital twins


• Robotics


• Smart hospitals


• Cloud healthcare


• 5G-enabled healthcare


• Metaverse in healthcare


• Connected healthcare ecosystems

This breadth is consistent with the scope seen in established digital-health publications, which cover telemedicine, mHealth, AI, wearables, digital therapeutics, informatics, cybersecurity, policy, and virtual care.