About the Journal

Digital Health & Telemonitoring Advances (DHTA) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing research, innovation, and evidence-based practice in digital health, telemedicine, telemonitoring, remote patient monitoring, health informatics, artificial intelligence in healthcare, wearable technologies, mobile health, and related interdisciplinary fields.

The journal provides a platform for researchers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, biomedical engineers, data scientists, public health specialists, policymakers, health-system administrators, and technology developers to share rigorous scholarly work addressing the design, evaluation, validation, implementation, governance, and responsible use of digital technologies in healthcare.

DHTA aims to support research that contributes to improved healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, accessibility, continuity of care, clinical decision-making, patient engagement, and health-system efficiency.

Scope and Focus

The journal covers a broad range of topics related to digital healthcare, including:

  • Digital health technologies and connected healthcare systems.

  • Telemedicine, telehealth, and virtual-care models.

  • Telemonitoring and remote patient monitoring.

  • Mobile health (mHealth) applications.

  • Wearable devices, biosensors, and connected medical technologies.

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare.

  • Clinical decision-support systems.

  • Digital diagnostics and predictive health analytics.

  • Health informatics and electronic health records.

  • Digital therapeutics.

  • Digital biomarkers.

  • Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).

  • Healthcare interoperability and health-information exchange.

  • Digital-health data analytics.

  • Cybersecurity, privacy, and health-data protection.

  • Digital-health regulation, policy, and governance.

  • Health equity, accessibility, and inclusion in digital healthcare.

  • Implementation and evaluation of digital-health technologies in real-world healthcare settings.

Interdisciplinary Approach

DHTA encourages interdisciplinary collaboration across fields including medicine, nursing, public health, biomedical engineering, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, health informatics, behavioral science, health economics, ethics, law, and health policy.

The journal particularly welcomes research that combines technological innovation with clinical relevance, methodological rigor, patient safety, ethical responsibility, and real-world healthcare impact.

Research Quality and Responsible Innovation

DHTA supports critical and evidence-based evaluation of emerging digital-health technologies.

The journal encourages authors to address, where relevant:

  • Clinical effectiveness.

  • Patient safety.

  • Methodological validity.

  • Technology reliability.

  • Usability and accessibility.

  • Data quality.

  • Privacy and confidentiality.

  • Cybersecurity.

  • Interoperability.

  • Algorithmic bias.

  • Responsible artificial intelligence.

  • Ethical and legal considerations.

  • Health equity.

  • Implementation challenges.

  • Sustainability and scalability.

Claims regarding the clinical effectiveness, safety, accuracy, fairness, or healthcare impact of digital technologies should be supported by appropriate evidence.

Editorial and Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to DHTA undergo an initial editorial assessment for relevance, originality, scholarly quality, methodological appropriateness, and ethical compliance.

Research manuscripts considered suitable for further evaluation undergo independent peer review in accordance with the journal's Peer Review Policy and Editorial Process.

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit and are made independently of inappropriate personal, institutional, financial, or commercial influence.

Publication Ethics

DHTA is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.

The journal's editorial and publication practices are guided by recognized principles of ethical publishing, including relevant guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal maintains policies addressing matters including:

  • Authorship and contributorship.

  • Plagiarism.

  • Duplicate and redundant publication.

  • Research misconduct.

  • Conflicts of interest.

  • Ethical approval and informed consent.

  • Data integrity and availability.

  • Artificial intelligence use.

  • Complaints and appeals.

  • Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions.

Open Access

DHTA operates under an Open Access publishing model.

Published articles are made freely available online to support broad access, scholarly communication, knowledge sharing, and responsible dissemination of research.

Unless another license is clearly and lawfully identified for historical content or third-party material, articles are published under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under CC BY 4.0, users may share and adapt published material, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given, the license is identified, and changes are indicated where applicable.

Publication Information

Journal Title: Digital Health & Telemonitoring Advances

Abbreviation: DHTA

Print ISSN: 3117-647X

Online ISSN: 3117-6461

Publisher: GalaxiaUniverse

Country of Publication: India

Publication Language: English

Publication Frequency: Monthly

Access Model: Open Access

Standard Article License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Global Scholarly Contribution

DHTA seeks to contribute to the international development of digital healthcare by publishing research relevant to diverse healthcare systems, populations, and resource settings.

The journal encourages research that addresses:

  • Digital-health implementation in hospitals, primary care, community care, and home-based settings.

  • Rural and remote healthcare.

  • Low-resource healthcare environments.

  • Accessibility for older adults and persons with disabilities.

  • Health literacy and language accessibility.

  • Socioeconomic barriers to digital-health adoption.

  • Equitable access to digital healthcare technologies.

Commitment to Digital Health and Telemonitoring

Digital Health & Telemonitoring Advances (DHTA) aims to support trustworthy, evidence-based, ethical, accessible, and clinically meaningful innovation in digital healthcare.

Through independent peer review, responsible editorial practices, open access, accurate scholarly reporting, and interdisciplinary research, the journal seeks to advance knowledge and contribute to the responsible transformation of healthcare through digital technologies.