Telehealth and Medicine Today | Call for Manuscripts

Building robust research repositories and study datasets must be amassed for health policy leaders, regulators, and economists to gauge thereal worldimpact of virtual and digital health modalities of care.THMT is creating a special issue collection ofshort case reports, technical reports, pilot studies, and clinical or marketing research resultsto demonstrate the cost efficiencies of this growing field.

THMT invites multidisciplinary experts from business,consulting, hospital, health systems, not-for-profit, clinical and allied health professionals, scholars, graduate students, post docs, and researchers to develop and submit originalshort reports addressing cost, analysis, and efficiencies identified throughreal world telehealth implementations.

Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

Telehealth utilization and downstream care

Emergency visits and hospitalizations

Hospital readmissions

Modalities such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), live video, store-and-forward, and mobilehealth

Accessibility to care and special populations

Productivity for health providers and/or patients

Culturally appropriate services

Specialist care

Substitution of in-person care

Preventing more costly care

No-show rates

Transitional care management

Care between patients, caregivers and clinicians

Value-based payment models and incentivized prevention

Chronic disease management

Key Dates for Submissions

• Submission Deadline: May 1, 2023
• Initial Decisions: June 1, 2023
• Revisions Submitted and Decisions Made: July 1, 2023
• Publication: August 1, 2023

Note: Should an author require faster publication turn around, please submit your manuscript to the regular issue. The regular APC rates will apply. Deadline is March 1, 2023.

Submission Guidelines

Reports should present new, original results that are unpublished. Please prepare your manuscript as per THMT guidelines here.

Submissions for the theme issue should be a maximum of 2500 words, not including references.

To submit a manuscript to this THMT theme issue, please visit https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions. Be sure you have first registered. Include your ORCID ID or obtain one here. Click the selection “Special Issue” for your submission.

Your manuscript will undergo full peer-review, consistent with THMT criteria here. All papers will appear together in an e-collection (theme issue) guest edited by the academics and experts listed below.

Note: authors must disclose employment status in “Conflicts” section of manuscript.

APC

The theme issue Article Processing Charge (APC) is discounted and will be $450.00 USD Waivers are available as per the THMT Waiver Policy.

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Journal Theme Issue Editors

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO, KeyCare, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

Paul Barach, B.Sc. MD, MPH, Maj (ret.), Lecturer and Senior Advisor of Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, USA; Professor, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

Bryan T. Arkwright, MHA, Principal, Impact Advisors; Founder and Chief Research Officer, Cromford Health; Adjunct Faculty, Wake Forest University School of Law and Ohio University, College of Health Sciences and Professions, USA

Rebecca Love, Chief Clinical Officer, Intelycare and President of SONSIEL, USA

Matthew Sakumoto, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, USA

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Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) is the gold open access international peer reviewed journal examining the value of telehealth and clinical automation, use and scalable developments, business process guidance, market research and the economic and social impact of digital health innovations in the health and technology field. Original research and reveiws are invited from multidisciplinary collaboratives, academic researchers, health systems, technology leaders, frontline providers, nurses and allied health professionals, innovators, health policy, and social impact disciplines. Authors are encouraged to submit high quality novel research, failed experiments, and outcomes for cost efficiencies realized delivering virtual care in a value based system. A world-class review board includes constructive commentary through rigorous peer review to strengthen work. The journal is published quarterly.