In BMC musculoskeletal disorders ; h5-index 46.0
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders launched a Collection on digital health to get a sense of where the wind is blowing, and what impact these technologies are and will have on musculoskeletal medicine. This editorial summarizes findings and focuses on some key topics, which are valuable as digital health establishes itself in patient care. Elements discussed are digital tools for the diagnosis, prognosis and evaluation of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, coupled together with advances in methodologies to analyse health records and imaging. Moreover, the acceptability and validity of these digital advances is discussed. In sum, this editorial and the papers presented in this article collection on Digital health in musculoskeletal care will give the interested reader both a glance towards which future we are heading, and which new challenges these advances bring.
Gupta Latika, Najm Aurélie, Kabir Koroush, De Cock Diederik
2023-Mar-14
Artificial intelligence, Digital health, Musculoskeletal, Orthopedics, Rheumatology, Telemedicine, Virtual consultation, eHealth
