International Journal of Electronic Healthcare  (IJEH)
ISSN (Online): 1741-8461  -  ISSN (Print): 1741-8453

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

IJEH aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other's work through cutting edge thinking in e-healthcare. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. IJEH is an outstanding outlet that will enable e-healthcare research to take a shape of its own and whose results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, as well as across the healthcare industry:

• Up-to-date, leading edge research to keep readers ahead and maintain a competitive edge best practice in e-healthcare
• Practical guidance on ways to achieve significant effectiveness and efficiency in e-healthcare development and implementation
• In-depth analysis and interpretation to advance our understanding and provide a framework for further study of e-healthcare
• International coverage which allows us to share information and knowledge and insight on a worldwide scale.

   Readership

Professionals, academics, researchers, managers, policy makers, and non-profit organisations.

   Contents

IJEH publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries, and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome:

• High quality papers to keep readers at the forefront of the latest thinking and research in e-healthcare
• Case studies and practical applications to illustrate e-healthcare design, development, management and implementation.

   Subject Coverage

Although the possible set of topics is large and we encourage submission on any area within the scope of e-healthcare, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive):

• E-healthcare: what it means for patients, providers and payers
• Electronic medical records: challenges and solutions
• HIPPA and e-healthcare
• E-healthcare and social exclusion
• E-healthcare for hospital strategies
• Interactive e-healthcare study
• E-procurement and e-healthcare
• E-healthcare strategy and implementation
• E-healthcare: privacy and trust
• E-healthcare process models
• National health information infrastructure
• E-payments and e-healthcare
• E-healthcare: where do we go from here?
• E-healthcare impacts on efficiencies, effectiveness, and transparency
• Reengineering hospital administrative processes via e-healthcare
• Quality management in e-healthcare
• E-healthcare in small sized hospitals
• E-healthcare and healthcare portals
• Knowledge management in hospitals
• Technical aspects of knowledge flow in e-healthcare
• Cultural, social and political issues in e-healthcare
• E-doctors and e-pharmacy
• Web services for healthcare

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. Dr. Chang T. Hsieh

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Prof. Dr. Chang T. Hsieh
McCarty Distinguished Professor in MIS
University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, #5178
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
USA
Chang-tseh.Hsieh@usm.edu

Senior Editor

Dr. Yao Y. Shieh
Clinical Professor
Department of Radiological Sciences
University of California
Irvine Medical Center, 101 The City Drive
Orange CA 92868
USA

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Majed Al-MashariMa
Dept of Information Systems
King Saud University
P.O.Box 1178
Riyadh 11543
SAUDI ARABIA

Dr. Ronald S. BatenburgRo
Utrecht University
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
PO Box 80089
3508 TB Utrecht
NETHERLANDS

Prof. David W. ChadwickDa
Information Systems Institute
University of Salford
The Crescent
Salford M5 4WT
UK

Dr. Ta-Tao ChuangTa
School of Business, AD09
Gonzaga University
Spokane WA 99258
USA

Prof. Steven A. ConradSt
Health Sciences Center
Louisiana State University
1501 Kings Highway
Shreveport LA 71103
USA

Dr. Karen L. CourtneyKa
Assistant Professor & Nursing Informatics Program Coordinator
University of Pittsburgh
School of Nursing
415 Victoria Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
USA

Dr. George DemirisGe
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
University of Washington School of Medicine
Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
BNHS Box 357266
Seattle, WA 98195-7266
USA

Prof. Reinhold HauxRe
Technical University of Braunschweig
Institute for Medical Informatics
Muehlenpfordtstr. 23
D-38106 Braunschweig
GERMANY

Prof. Chang-yup KimCh
School of Public Health
Seoul National University
28 Yongong-dong
Chongno-gu
Seoul 110-799
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Dr. Frederick G. KohunFr
Associate Dean
Robert Morris University
School of Communications and Information Systems
6001 University Blvd.
Moon Township PA 15108
USA

Prof. Dr. Koos KrabbendamKo
School of Business Public Administration and Technology
University of Twente
P.O.Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
NETHERLANDS

Dr. Adela S.M. LauAd
Medical Informatics and Knowledge Management Specialist
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
School of Nursing
Hung Hom, Kowloon
HONG KONG (CHINA)

Prof. Dr. Binshan LinBi
BellSouth Corporation Professor
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Department of Management and Marketing
BE321, College of Business Administration
One University Place
Shreveport LA 71115
USA

Prof. Daniel P. LorenceDa
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Health Policy and Administration and School of Information Sciences and Technology
University Park PA 16801
USA

Prof. Curtis P. McLaughlinCu
Business Administration & Health Policy Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8823 Drew Lane
Chapel Hill NC 27516
USA

Dr. Mikko NenonenMi
Medical Director, Chief Medical Administrator
Rheumatism Foundation Hospital
Pikijarventie 1
FIN-18120 Heinola
FINLAND

Prof. Nguyen Hoang PhuongNg
Director
Ministry of Health of Vietnam
Center for Health Information Technology
No. 135 Lane, Nui Truc Street
Ba Dinh Dist.
Hanoi
VIET NAM

Dr. M. RajarajanM.
Director, Multimedia and Internet Systems Engineering
City University
School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
London EC1V 0HB
UK

Dr. Keng SiauKe
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Management
209 College of Business Administration
Lincoln NE 68588-0491
USA

Prof. Sanjay P. SoodSa
Head
C-DAC School of Advanced Computing
4, Glaieuls Avenue
Quatre Bornes
MAURITIUS

Prof. Dr. Craig StandingCr
Edith Cowan University
School of Management
100 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup, Western Australia 6027
AUSTRALIA

Dr. Robert SteeleRo
Associate Professor
University of Technology, Sydney
Faculty of Information Technology
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Dr. Jospeh TanJo
Professor and Chair
ISM Dept
Wayne State University
5229 Cass Avenue
Detroit MI 48202
USA

Dr. Jennifer TichonJe
University of Queensland
Perception & Motor Systems Lab
Level 5, Building 26
St Lucia Qld 4072
AUSTRALIA

Dr. Mohamed TounsiMo
Associate Professor in Computer Science; Chairman
Prince Sultan University
Computer Science Department
P.O. Box 66833
Riyadh, 11586
SAUDI ARABIA

Dr. Y. Alex TungY.
OPIM Dept
School of Business
University of Connecticut
Storrs CT 06269-1041
USA

Prof. Dr. G.G. Van MerodeG.
Dept of Health Organziation, Policy and Economics
University of Maastricht
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastrict
NETHERLANDS

Dr. Dag Von LubitzDa
Chairman and Senior Scientist, MedSMART, Inc; Office of the Dean
Central Michigan University
College of Health Professions
4170 S. Meridian
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
USA

Prof. Nilmini WickramasingheNi
Professor, Information Management and Library Science
RMIT University
School of Business Information Technology
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne VIC 3001
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Dr. Vladimir ZwassVl
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and MIS
Fairleigh Dickinson University
19 Warewoods Road
Saddle River
NJ 07458
USA