Journal: Digital Biomarkers
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2026
Healthcare will not scale by adding more clinicians alone. The workforce is constrained, demand is rising, and incremental efficiency gains will not close the gap. If access, quality, and cost are to improve meaningfully, safe and evidence-based patient capability must become a core component of care delivery.
This collection focuses on Technology-Enabled Personal Health Care: structured, risk-appropriate capabilities that allow patients and families to manage health conditions outside and in coordination with clinical settings. We seek rigorous work that moves beyond conceptual vision toward real-world deployment.
The Call for Papers prioritizes original Research Articles that evaluate implemented systems and technologies that will specifically enable or have enabled Personal Health Care, including:
- Validated digital biomarkers and multimodal sensing approaches.
- Outcome-driven self-management models.
- Context-aware data integration and decision support.
- Patient-centric workflows and escalation architectures.
- Safety engineering, failure mode design, and assured-care models.
Submissions should consider validated digital measures, translational or real-world evidence, and explicit boundary conditions, including risk stratification, entry criteria, suitability limits, and safeguards necessary to prevent harm. Studies that examine failure, null results, or unintended consequences are also encouraged. Other article types, including Reviews, Methods, and Perspectives that provide rigorous synthesis of these domains are also welcome, provided they are grounded in implemented systems and empirical evidence.
Together, this collection aims to provide durable, evidence-based guidance for clinicians, policymakers, technologists, industry leaders, and civilian and military health systems seeking to responsibly operationalize patient-side digital health capability.
This article collection is edited by Dr. Adam Cohen (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Yale Medicine, USA) and published in Digital Biomarkers.
Please select the option “Call for Papers: Technology-Enabled Personal Health Care” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.
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