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REVIEW article

Front. Digit. Health

Sec. Health Technology Implementation

Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1640585

This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Technologies in Chronic Disease Management: Strategies for Enhanced PreventionView all 8 articles

Digital health technologies for improving the management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon-si, Republic of Korea
  • 2Sungkyunkwan University, Jongno-gu, Republic of Korea
  • 3University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 4Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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Advances made in digital health in recent years have the potential to improve the care of patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for whom substantial disability still exists. In particular, telehealth and telerehabilitation programs, wearable devices, and apps have been studied as novel methods of providing care to COPD patients who may have limited access to clinical centers or who may benefit from an increased level of monitoring. Many of these interventions gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic when mandated social isolation required the rapid implementation of remote care models. While these digital health interventions have since demonstrated promise in delivering care to otherwise isolated communities, the ongoing need for more evidence proving their positive impact on important clinical outcomes remains a barrier to their full implementation. How to best integrate digital health solutions into existing care models requires greater consideration of the technological, financial, and labor demands such solutions may entail.

Keywords: COPD, telehealth, Digital Health, Apps, wearable devices

Received: 03 Jun 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Park, Kong, Lee, Ryu, Yasuda, Luppi and Leung. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Janice Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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