Dear Colleagues,

We are currently running a Special Issue entitled “Optimising E-Health Systems for Sustainable Healthcare” in the open-access journal Sustainability (IF 2.576, 2071-1050). The submission deadline is 31 May 2021, and papers may be submitted immediately or at any point until the deadline, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis.

Nowadays, e-health is a global tool accessible to the majority of people. The application of information and communication technologies in health systems represents benefits in terms of innovation in the social and health field and in the economy of any country. The application of technology to health offers the possibility of integrating processes, improving efficiency in the use of time and resources, and thereby reducing costs, leading to an increase in the productivity of healthcare systems. Likewise, the new services created make it possible to overcome geographical and temporal limitations in terms of waiting times and access to health professionals. The collaborative part is also reinforced through the exchange of knowledge among professionals, such as new techniques or treatments, images of patients, and clinical cases.

In this sense, tools based on mobile devices (m-health) play a fundamental role, facilitating the development of applications to aid diagnosis, the application of treatments, as well as the management of healthcare. The interaction between healthcare providers and patients increases feedback in rehabilitation processes, empowering patients in their self-care.

The objective of the current Special Issue is to gather outstanding studies dealing with the integration of technology in healthcare systems with the aim of making them much more sustainable. Therefore, we welcome both original research and review articles in the field of healthcare with sustainable purposes by using the most cutting-edge technologies. We search for practical applications for solving narrowed problem scopes and theoretical procedural approaches to solve a wide range of issues. For this Special Issue, we also welcome solutions in the fields of efficient algorithms, communication among different technologies and software applications, artificial intelligence applications, cloud/edge computing, and, in general, all the technologies aimed at improving the sustainability of healthcare systems.

This Special Issue will supplement the existing literature by providing a series of cutting-edge works with an emphasis on the sustainability of healthcare systems.

Dr. Guillermo Palacios-Navarro
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• telerehabilitation technologies and systems
• telemedicine
• m-health
• e-health integrated systems
• virtual-reality-based rehabilitation
• virtual/augmented reality for e-health
• m-health in developing countries
• efficient systems for e-health
• use of standards for integrated e-health management
• IoT devices for healthcare
• smart devices for hospital/residence facilities
• advanced learning systems for e-health