Due to the recent technological advancements, technologies, such as online platforms, big data, live streaming, and artificial intelligence, are leading the transformation of health/medical information by helping with the construction of innovative healthcare information management models. Digital health information can help patients with accessing health knowledge remotely, which in turn has a positive impact on patients’ well-being. While there is a large gap between the provision of digital health information and patient outcome, especially from the perspective of how to provide digital information for better patient education. Patient understanding of healthcare information is important for the digital transformation of health services. Patients need to fully understand the online healthcare information so that they can properly manage their health. However, certain health/medical knowledge, such as medical doctor jargon, is generally difficult for patients to understand. We believe that digital technologies may bridge this gap as they provide various types/formats of information and styles of provision to enrich the health information sharing process. Specifically, digital technologies enable patients to better understand health/medical knowledge and take actions to properly manage their health.

This Research Topic is interested in original contributions that conceptualize and contextualize the organization of digital health information to benefit the patient understanding of online health/medical knowledge. We welcome submissions that provide empirical evidence on leveraging digital technologies in healthcare, such as mobile ICTs, big data, artificial intelligence, live streaming, design and deployment of new tools and techniques, and data analytics in healthcare for better patient understanding. We also encourage submissions that investigate theoretical frameworks and practical tools related to digital healthcare information, such as the organization of health information, the displaying of health information, and the provision of health information.

We particularly encourage original research articles that address a range of topics, including but are not limited to the following areas.
• Medtech/data-enabled technologies in information management for patient education;
• Role of mobile health Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs) in information sharing for patient education;
• Provision of health information based on big data;
• Application of artificial intelligence for patient education;
• Effectiveness of digital technologies in patient education;
• Innovative digital technologies to improve patient understanding of health information;
• Ethical and legal issues involved digital health information for patient education.

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