Editorial: Supporting sustainable behavior change and empowerment in ubiquitous and learning health systems

Abstract

Digital health technologies are increasingly present in our day-to-day lives and are often used continuously, enabling the integration of an increasing variety of data. Such ubiquitous and often mobile digital health systems have considerable potential in enabling long-termor even life-long disease management. Furthermore, accompanying healthcare monitoring and interventions with a focus on prevention and rehabilitation could reduce the amount and extent of events that require traditional medical treatment. This can lower individual suffering, as well as the burden on public health systems considerably (Abernethy et al., 2022;Kvedar et al., 2014) and has the potential to increase quality-adjusted life years (Gentili et al., 2022).In the context of ubiquitous digital health technologies, learning health systems have the potential to reshape healthcare by providing continuous, context-aware and reflexively iterated healthcare and prevention systems providing benefits at individual and population levels (Foley & Vale, 2023

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