Call for paper in Frontiers journals: Digital Hearing Healthcare

About the topic

The lab member Qinglin and Changxin is collaborating with three other experts on organizing a special issue on Digital Hearing Healthcare. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 466 hundred million people worldwide suffer from hearing loss and the number is expected to double by 2050. As technologies advance, especially in digital communication, consumer electronics and machine learning, diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss will evolve rapidly not only to improve current hearing healthcare and service delivery but also to address the unmet and growing needs in tele-audiology and tele-rehabilitation. This trend has further gained momentum through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to an increased need to collect data remotely and could lead to further automation in the clinical pathway as well as to more direct interaction between the end-user and his or her assistive technology.

“The use and scale up of digital health solutions can revolutionize how people worldwide achieve higher standards of health, and access services to promote and protect their health and well-being.” – WHO.
The Topic Editors welcome all contributions focusing on the intersection of hearing research and digital health. This Research Topic aims to provide a platform for presenting original research, case reports, perspectives and opinions, (mini) reviews in digital hearing healthcare and related areas.