Call for Papers

The world today needs to face problems such as the aging population and the inherent need of assisted-living environments for elderly people. Traditional healthcare systems are not able to satisfy the needs of a continuously growing and developing society. A huge number of patients must have access to health-care services. Furthermore, shortage of cost-effective and accurate smart medical sensors, lack of uniform standards and communication interoperability across the eHealth devices, heterogeneity and multi-dimensionality of the data from the healthcare sector, and the trust issues pertaining to privacy and security of data pose significant obstacles to the expansion of IoT for healthcare, elderly and aging.

Recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT) are envisioned to break the above barriers. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, IoT has been phenomenal in revolutionizing many aspects of traditional healthcare paradigms providing optimized, flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient solutions that accelerate scientific research, personalised medicine, early diagnosis of diseases and more effective treatments.

The goal of this Special Issue (SI) is to solicit IoT solutions for eHealth, bringing together researchers from academia into a common platform to advance the state-of-the-art of eHealth by eliciting new applications and disruptive solutions for medical science and healthcare. The theme of this SI is three-fold: i) to discuss the latest advancements in the field of IoT for eHealth by presenting innovative and efficient solutions, ii) to illustrate aspects of applying IoT in healthcare experimental results to analyze the effects over lifestyle and healthcare systems and the response to technology-assisted medical care and treatments and iii) to give further directions for research, new problems and challenges in the eHealth field.

The SI invites original and breakthrough works in the field of IoT for eHealth. High-quality surveys, tutorial and practical use-cases in real life scenarios are also welcomed. Contributions to this SI should include (but not limited to):

• IoT sensors for smart eHealth devices
• IoT system architectures in healthcare
• Wearable medical wireless sensors
• New platforms and solutions for eHealth patient monitoring
• Cloud and edge computing for IoT-eHealth
• Interoperability and standards for IoT-eHealth
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in eHealth
• Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms towards early diagnosis
• Ubiquitous computing towards pervasive healthcare
• IoT-based remote healthcare for elderly
• Ambient assisted living IoT for active and healthy aging
• Implantable IoT devices
• eHealth-oriented software architectures
• Context awareness and autonomous computing for ambient assisted living
• Future technologies for the health of the brain
• In-body medical sensors communications

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper Submission Guidelines.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “June 2021/The Future of eHealth: Applications, Solutions and New Visions in the IoT Era” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15 September 2020
Initial Decision: 1 December 2020
Revised Manuscript Due: 1 January 2021
Final Decision: 1 February 2021
Final Manuscript: 15 February 2021
Publication: June 2021

Guest Editors

Andrea Sciarrone
University of Genoa, Italy

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Dan Wu
Army Engineering University of PLA, China

Jia Chen
IBM, USA