Special Issue on Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness

The special issue entitled “Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness” will cover the topics related to recent advancements in Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness. The aim of this special issue is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions concerning immersive technologies Web3 and health and wellness. This special issue will invite manuscripts related to Applications, use cases, ethics, convergence of technologies, and future research. The special issue is focused on providing information to practitioners and leaders on how these cutting-edge technologies can improve efficiency and effectiveness in health care and develop new business models.  This special issue will offer an exciting platform to researchers for sharing emerging technology use cases and challenges. This special issue will provide the latest Web3, AI, Metaverse, and public health information across various use cases.  This special issue aims to provide new information concerning rapidly emerging technologies and their potential deployment for health and wellness.

For this purpose, we are editing a special issue entitled “Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness” for the international peer-reviewed journal Global Health Journal. The journal is co-published by Elsevier (the World’s largest information analytics group) and China Science Publishing and Media (China's largest STM publisher and the publishing arm of the Chinese Academy of Science) and sponsored by People’s Medical Publishing House, Co., Ltd (China's largest and leading medical publisher). Global Health Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which has been indexed by Scopus and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) databases. All the contents published with GHJ will immediate available for free downloading and reading on Science Direct.

Topics Covered:

This issue will examine the application of Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness. In particular, it will include papers related to:

In particular, it will invite papers related to:

• Application of Web3, Metaverse, and AI in health and wellness
• Ethical Issues in Web3, AI, and Metaverse in Health and Wellness
• Web3 and Identity Preservation in Health and Wellness
• Intersection of Web3, AI, IoT, and Wearables in immersive environments
• Applications of Digital Twins in Health Care
• VR and big data incorporated with AI in software and hardware to increase the proficiency of medical devices, reduce the cost of health services, improve healthcare operations, and expand the reach of medical care.
• Metaverse education for medical, health, and patient care
• Metaverse, gamification, and wellness
• Health data marketplaces and monetization
• Metaverse and health care (cardiac, surgery, education, mental health, pharmacy)
• Web3 and decentralized science

Important Deadlines:

Submission deadline: 15 June 2024

Once complete, the special issue will be assembled and published on a dedicated webpage.

Submission Instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online via https://www.editorialmanager.com/glohj/default.aspx; please select the option SI: Web3, AI & Metaverse in Health.

Guest Editor:

• Dr Jane Thomason, Founder Web3 Institute, Industry Associate, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology, London. Email: jane.blockchainquantumimpact@gmail.com