Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care

Professor Tong received his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Over the years, he has made great strides in developing a wide range of rehabilitation devices. His innovative work on the “Hand of Hope” rehabilitation robot system was the first Hong Kong invention to have received the grand prize in the 40-year history of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2012), making Hong Kong internationally visible in this emerging area in healthcare technology. The Kinelabs project awarded Dr. Tong the highest honor of winner in the e-Health category in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) from Brunei in 2012. He was also the recipient of the Grand Award of the innovation awards from the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers in 2008 and the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Hong Kong in 2013. He is presently the Chairman of the Asia Regulatory Professional Association (ARPA)-Hong Kong Academy. He is a senior Member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE and Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE). Dr. Balasankar Ganesan is a Lecturer at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Federation University, Australia. He received his Dual PhD degree from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and an entry-level Occupational Therapy degree from The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India. He is also a registered Occupational Therapist in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and India. Additionally, he is a member of the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation and the International Society of Global Health.

Part I Introduction - health care transition
1. Historical overview and the evolution of digital health
2. Transition to digital health: a necessity, not a luxury

Part II Digital health and telehealth applications in rehabilitation care and public health practice
3. Telemedicine and telehealth
4. Digital centers and telehealth for marginalized communities during COVID-19: the case of Bangladesh
5. Virtual care in speech-language pathology
6. The future of digital mental health care: challenges and opportunities for practice

Part III Digital health applications in older adults
7. Recent trends and digital technology applications in lower limb injuries rehabilitation
8. Telerehabilitation: a new frontier in rehabilitation care during the COVID-19
9. Opportunities and challenges for the implementation and uptake of robots in residential care
10. Digital healthcare methods for geriatric rehabilitation
11. Dementia and digital health

Part IV Digital health applications in pediatric care
12. Digital production of pediatric ankle-foot orthoses
13. Technologies and psychophysiological measures for regulation in autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder populations

Part V Digital health and neurological rehabilitation
14. Augmented reality rehabilitation for stroke
15. Neurotechnology for poststroke motor rehabilitation
16. Toward a positive emotion-elicitation human-robot interaction: positive emotion recognition with multimodal inputs
17. Optimizing electroencephalography-emotion classification through strategic window selection methodology

Part VI Digital health in public health and nursing care
18. Nursing in the digital age: the importance of health technology and its advancement in nursing and healthcare
19. The application of digital health to fight against COVID-19

Part VII Barrier of digital technology application
20. Barriers and challenges in the application of digital technology in public health in developing countries
21. The impact of socioeconomic barriers on access to telehealth services for medical abortion in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic
22. Artificial intelligence and public health: challenges and opportunities
23. The future of digital health in transforming healthcare