Dear Colleagues,

Health systems are facing disrupting situations (limited resources, aging population, chronicity, pandemic scenarios, etc.) that threaten traditional functioning and procedures, requiring novel models of healthcare delivery to provide a timely response to the increasing demands of citizens.

Technology may bring capabilities and tools to ease the deployment of cost-efficient services to overcome current challenges. In particular, the potential of sensor devices and platforms to support new healthcare scenarios is promising. Technology makes it possible to deliver healthcare across a wide spectrum of biomedical challenges (e.g., remote and supervised monitoring of patients in home settings and medical consultations or rehabilitation/maintenance programs at home), always maintaining healthcare quality and boosting the safety and comfort of patients while optimizing the efficiency/cost ratio.

Recent advances in e-Health support healthcare delivery in different biomedical situations through products and services aimed at citizens, whether they are healthy or chronic patients, elderly, and/or isolated by a pandemic outbreak. The remote monitoring of physiological variables is an essential part of e-Health systems, and emerging technology paradigms such as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) are also gaining momentum. IoMT is a novel concept that envisions medical sensing devices with Internet connectivity for intelligent management in heterogeneous environments such as the patient’s home. This kind of system may help to reduce the overload of healthcare staff and to diminish costs without the detriment of healthcare practice.

This Special Issue aims at collecting advances, proposals, and solutions based on sensors, systems, and e-Health platforms for the management and supervised monitoring of any kind of patient in any biomedical situation. We invite authors to submit their research results and share their experiences based on technology proposals, system implementations, and use cases, as well as review articles. The following topics can be covered in the Special Issue, although other related topics are also welcome:

• e-Health platforms for home care of patients;
• Medical sensorization technologies and portable devices;
• Technological systems, platforms, and use cases for biomedical challenges (e.g., pandemics);
• Distributed communications infrastructures and clinical information processing;
• Integration of heterogeneous information sources for healthcare;
• Accessible and usable user interfaces personalizable for both the patient and the healthcare staff;
• Resolution of problems associated with connectivity and wireless communications;
• Interoperability problems and challenges and information standardization;
• Solutions and proposals to address security and privacy issues;
• Cloud computing, machine learning, and management of medical data.

Dr. David Naranjo-Hernández
Dr. Laura M. Roa
Dr. Javier Reina-Tosina
Dr. Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu
Guest Editors

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• Biomedical smart sensors
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• Technological systems and platforms for biomedical challenges
• Healthcare in the patient's home
• IoMT-based homecare in biomedical challenges