Call for papers - Wearable technologies

Guest Editors

Haider Butt, PhD, Khalifa University, UAE
Yuanjing Lin, PhD, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 30 July 2025

BMC Digital Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Wearable technologies. This Collection seeks to gather cutting-edge research on wearable technologies in digital health, exploring their potential to revolutionize health monitoring, disease management, and remote patient care. We welcome submissions that delve into the integration of biometric sensors, smart wearables, mobile health technology, and artificial intelligence, with the aim of advancing our understanding of these technologies and their impact on healthcare delivery and individual well-being.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Haider Butt, PhD, Khalifa University, UAE

Professor Haider Butt leads a research group focused on wearable bio-photonics devices at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE. He has earned international recognition for his research and leadership in optical sensors, where he has contributed to nanoscale devices by conceiving novel holographic lithography methods to produce optical transducers. His most pioneering works include glucose-sensing contact lenses, contact lenses for color-blind patients, and carbon nanotube-based high-resolution holograms.

Yuanjing Lin, PhD, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Yuanjing Lin received her PhD degree in Electronic and Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2018. From 2019 to 2020, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. Her research interests focus on nanomaterial innovation for wearable and printable electronics, micro/nanostructured sensors, flexible energy storage devices and their applications in smart systems.

About the Collection

BMC Digital Health is calling for submissions to our Collection, Wearable technologies.

Wearable technologies have revolutionized the landscape of digital health, offering unprecedented opportunities for health monitoring, disease management, and remote patient care. These devices, equipped with biometric sensors and smart capabilities, have the potential to transform healthcare delivery and empower individuals to take an active role in managing their health. The integration of wearable technologies in health monitoring has opened new frontiers for personalized and proactive healthcare, enabling continuous monitoring and real-time data insights.

It is important for us to continue advancing our collective understanding of wearable technologies in digital health to harness their full potential for improving health outcomes and healthcare delivery. Recent advances in this area have demonstrated the efficacy of wearable health devices in monitoring vital signs, tracking physical activity, and facilitating remote patient monitoring. Moreover, the integration of mobile health technology with wearable devices has enabled seamless data transmission and enhanced connectivity, fostering a more comprehensive approach to healthcare delivery.

Looking ahead, continued research in this area holds the potential for significant advances in wearable technologies, including the development of more sophisticated biometric sensors, enhanced data analytics for actionable insights, and the integration of artificial intelligence for personalized health interventions. Furthermore, ongoing research efforts may lead to the expansion of wearable technologies beyond individual health monitoring to broader public health applications and healthcare system optimization.

We invite contributions that examine a wide range of topics relating to wearable technologies, including but not limited to:

Wearable technologies for health monitoring
Smart wearables and remote patient monitoring
Biometric sensors in wearable health devices
Digital health and disease management
Integration of artificial intelligence in wearable technologies

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good health and well-being and SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Wearable technologies" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.