Miniaturized digital healthcare technology using soft bio-integrated devices has increased significantly in both recent research and commercialization, especially healthcare applications for public health. These personalized human-friendly sensor platforms and public health evaluation systems are essential not only to collect, transmit, and analyze various biometrics from individuals, but also to provide health metrics to the public. Recent advances in device design, translation research, and clinical assessment methods through advanced digital platforms for health and wellness monitoring construct the basis for telemedicine including remote diagnosis and therapeutics. Continued progress and the emergence of new approaches, device implementations, and quantitative assessment facilitate the motivation of research with forward-looking engineering schemes and promote the associated commercialization efforts to support practical public health applications.
A broad group of sensor platforms, ranging from electrical, mechanical, optical, thermal, electrochemical, optoelectronic platforms, microfluidic and drug delivery platforms, to thermal characterization and imaging systems, have been leveraged for various skin-interfaced platforms in monitoring, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Quantitative assessment/diagnosis for dynamic mechanisms of complex physiological responses expands the assessment methods of public health.
We encourage researchers in advanced skin-interfaced platforms technology to submit their latest original research findings, mini-reviews, or perspectives aiming to highlight advances in sensor systems, device structure/fabrication, functional materials, validation/application study, and development of novel sensory modalities/ architectures for use in clinical practices. The research topic calls for public health-related papers with themes that include but are not limited to:
- Wearable systems / Sensor technology
- Biosensors/biochips/Lab-on-a-chip on the skin
- Microfluidic/Drug delivery platforms for Skin-interfaced analysis
- Point-of-care technology
- Simulation modeling and quantitative analysis of healthcare-related dynamics
- Sweat extraction technologies for wearable biosensing
Keywords: Digital public health, skin-interfaced platforms, wearable devices
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