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Digital health supporting caregivers

Guest Editors

Kerstin Denecke, Dr. rer. nat., Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Elia Gabarron, PhD, Østfold University College, Norway
Octavio Rivera, PhD, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain


BMC Digital Health is presenting our Collection Digital health supporting caregivers. This Collection explores the impact of digital health on caregiver support, encompassing topics such as remote monitoring, telehealth, mobile health, and the use of wearable devices to empower and assist caregivers in their roles.


New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Meet the Guest Editors

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Kerstin Denecke, Dr. rer. nat., Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Dr Kerstin Denecke is a Professor of medical informatics at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She is co-chair of the Institute Patient-centered Digital Health and of the IMIA Participatory Health and Social Media working group. Her research interests include conversational agents, medical language processing, information extraction, sentiment analysis, and text classification, digital health interventions and their unintended consequences.

Elia Gabarron, PhD, Østfold University College, Norway

Elia Gabarron is an Associate Professor at Østfold University College, in Norway and a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research. Her background is in Psychology, and she received her PhD in Health Sciences at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. She has been involved in digital health research for over 15 years, and her academic and research interests are centred around the use of digital technologies, and especially social media. She is on the leadership board of the IMIA Social Media Working Group (IMIA-SMWG) and has several publications in this field. Gabarron is also an Editorial Board Member of the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Octavio Rivera, PhD, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Octavio Rivera Romero is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and a researcher of the Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Sevilla. His main research interests are focused on participatory health informatics, persuasive mHealth, and personalization. Dr Rivera is member of the Sociedad Española de Informática y Salud (SEIS) since 2018 and of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) since 2016. Currently, he is member of the Research Ethical Committee of the Universidad de Sevilla. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the BMC Digital Health journal.

About the Collection

BMC Digital Health is presenting our Collection Digital health supporting caregivers. 

The role of caregivers in providing support to individuals with health needs is crucial, and the integration of digital health technologies has the potential to significantly enhance their capabilities. This Collection explores the impact of digital health on caregiver support, encompassing topics such as remote monitoring, telehealth, mobile health, and the use of wearable devices to empower and assist caregivers in their roles. Contributions investigate the impact of digital interventions, care coordination, and patient engagement on the well-being of both caregivers and care recipients.

It is important for us to continue advancing our collective understanding in this area to harness the full potential of digital health technologies in supporting caregivers. Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of telemedicine, virtual support platforms, and mobile apps in providing caregivers with tools for remote care and assistance. Additionally, health informatics and digital therapeutics have shown promise in improving caregiver empowerment and care coordination.

As research in digital health supporting caregivers continues, potential advances may include the development of innovative health technologies tailored to the specific needs of caregivers and care recipients. This may involve the integration of artificial intelligence for personalized care recommendations, the expansion of remote care capabilities through advanced telehealth solutions, and the utilization of health innovation to address the unique challenges faced by caregivers in diverse healthcare settings.

We highlight contributions that examine a wide range of topics relating to how digital health supports caregivers, including but not limited to:

  • Remote monitoring and care coordination
  • Digital interventions for caregivers’ mental health, empowerment, social support, and engagement.
  • Telehealth and virtual support platforms
  • Wearable devices and assistive technology for caregivers
  • Qualitative studies involving caregivers and health care providers
  • Expert panel discussions on barriers and facilitators for caregivers
  • Expansion of remote care capabilities through advanced telehealth solutions
  • Skill acquisition to interact with digital health technologies
  • Utilization of health innovation to address the unique challenges faced by caregivers in diverse healthcare settings
  • Reviews, meta-analysis, and intervention evaluations including pilot studies, acceptability or feasibility studies, frameworks, design research, and experimental studies


This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3:  Good Health and Well-Being

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