Journal Guide

Healthcare technology is a rapidly advancing, interdisciplinary field and Healthcare Technology Letters is designed to meet the needs of researchers working in this context by providing a home for reporting on the diverse technologies and approaches being brought to bear on healthcare. Now a fully Open Access journal, Healthcare Technology Letters focuses on the most recent advances within a wide scope of disciplines, encompassing biomedical engineering, and computer and information science for healthcare.

Implementation Science is ready to receive manuscripts that research methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare.

Informatics for Health & Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus.The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems.Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social and ethical aspects.Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation are particularly welcome.Informatics in Health & Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data is collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalised, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.The overriding goal of the Journal is to show how informatics contributes to the better delivery of care through the presentation of high-quality material, irrespective of whether it is oriented towards research or practice.

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (IMU) is an international gold open access journal covering a broad spectrum of topics within medical informatics, including (but not limited to) papers focusing on imaging, pathology, teledermatology, public health, ophthalmological, nursing and translational medicine informatics. The full papers that are published in the journal are accessible to all who visit the website.

Only manuscripts of sufficient quality with scientific relevance will be considered for publication; the types of articles accepted include original research papers, reviews, perspectives, letters to the editor and editorials, tutorials, and papers on innovative and topical new technology. Proposals for special focus issues from leading research groups will also be considered.

Manuscript referees will be experts in the subject matter, working in academia, industry, and at government institutions. Usually, comments from 2-5 referees will be returned to the authors after first submission of the manuscript. Average turnaround time for manuscript evaluation is expected to be less than 4 weeks. Average time from first submission to publication of accepted papers, including revision, will typically be 2-4 months.