International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
- Editor in Chief
- Dr. M.A. Dorgham
- ISSN online
- 1741-5144
- ISSN print
- 1368-2156
- 4 issues per year
- Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2023 1 (5 Year Impact Factor 0.8)
- CiteScore 0.8 (2022)
JCI 0.18

IJHTM is a series emerging from the International Journal of Technology Management. It provides an international forum and refereed authoritative sources of information in the fields of the economics and management of technology in healthcare.
Topics covered include
- Healthcare economics, management on macro/micro levels
- Healthcare technology management, technology assessment
- Medical technology management
- Strategic management/organisation of healthcare/healthcare technology (HC/HCT)
- Human resource management, organisation behaviour/theory and HC/HCT
- R&D management, entrepreneurial management, innovation and HC/HCT
- Quality management (clinical/administrative), benchmarking and TQM in HC/HCT
- New product development and marketing and HC/HCT
- ICT in healthcare
- Economics and financial management of HC/HCT
- Relationship between health and healthcare, health and social care interface
- Government policies and HC/HCT management
- HC/HCT management and the link between providers and insurers
- Globalisation, technology transfer and licensing
- E-commerce, supply chain management, operations management in healthcare
Objectives
The aims of the IJHTM are:
- to establish channels of communication and disseminate knowledge between policy-makers, professionals and providers working in the healthcare and related industries; and
- to further the knowledge, research, theory and practice in the fields of management, economics and the management of technology in healthcare.
IJHTM publishes original papers, theory-based empirical papers, review papers, case studies, conference reports, technology reports, book reviews and commentaries.
Readership
Policy makers, executives and professionals in the healthcare and medical industries, investment and insurance institutions, experts and researchers in relevant academic and research centres, consultants and advisers in healthcare and related fields.
Contents
IJHTM publishes original papers, theory-based empirical papers, review papers, case studies, conference reports, technology reports, book reviews and commentaries.
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IJHTM is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- Biology Digest (Plexus Publishing)
- Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Embase (Elsevier)
- Ovid Emcare
- Ergonomics Abstracts - Ergo-Abs
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- ProQuest ABI/Inform Collection
- Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
- ProQuest Technology Collection
IJHTM is listed in:
- ACPHIS (Australia) IS Journal Rankings
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
- The BFI lists
- Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide
- UGC (University Grants Commission)
- ESSEC Business School list
- Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
- Index of Information Systems Journals (Deakin University)
- JUFO
- MedBioWorld
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
Editor in Chief
- Dorgham, M.A., International Centre for Technology and Management, UK
(editorialinderscience.com)
Executive Editor
- Zhang, Ning Jackie, Seton Hall University, USA
Associate Editors
- Geisler, Eliezer, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Harrington, Tomás S., University of East Anglia (UEA), UK
- Krabbendam, Koos, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Rubin, Harvey, Institute for Strategic Threat Analyis and Response (ISTAR), USA
- Thuemmler, Christoph, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Todeva, Emanuela, St. Mary's University, UK
Editorial Board Members
- Babad, Yair M., University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Barlow, James, Imperial College London, UK
- Bart, Christopher K., The Not-For-Profit Governance Institute, Canada
- Bell, Derek, Imperial College London, UK
- Clarkson, P John, University of Cambridge, UK
- Dawson, Sandra, University of Cambridge, UK
- De Moor, George J.E., Universitair Ziekenhuis, Belgium
- Del Pozo Guerrero, Francisco, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Dexter, Franklin, University of Iowa, USA
- Evan, William M., University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Gattiker, Urs E., International School of New Media GmbH, Germany
- Giversen, Inger Marie, National Board of Health Islands, Denmark
- Hasman, Arie, AMC-University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Imam, Zaka, Central Drug Research Institute, India
- Jackson, Peter M., Leicester University, UK
- Kaihara, S., University of Tokyo, Japan
- Keen, Justin, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, UK
- Kierkegaard, Sylvia Mercado, International Association of IT Lawyers, Denmark
- Kleinjans, Jos C.S., Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Lin, Binshan, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA
- Lorenzi, Nancy M., Vanderbilt University Medical Center Informatics Center, USA
- Louckx, Fred, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- Mantas, John, University of Athens, Greece
- Mital, Chetna, Associates in Adult Healthcare, USA
- Nobukawa, Masuaki, Senreikai Medical Corporation, Japan
- Schwartz, J. Sanford, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Schweitzer, Stuart O., University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Sood, Sanjay P., C-DAC School of Advanced Computing, Mauritius
- Taket, Ann, South Bank University, UK
- Towse, Adrian, Office of Health Economics, UK
- Van Eimeren, Wilhelm, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany
- Wickramasinghe, Nilmini, La Trobe University, Australia
- Wintermantel, Erich, Zentralinstitut für Medizintechnik ZIMT, Germany
- Young, T.P., Brunel University, UK
- Yu, Lean, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
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- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
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Journal news
Review reveals research gaps in healthcare and technology studies
20 January, 2023
The role of technology in healthcare is high on the agenda especially in the face of rising costs, but also more positively in terms of how providers can improve the outcomes for patients with improvements in technology. Indeed, technology is critical to patient outcomes and the overall performance of healthcare systems. A literature review published in the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management would suggest that current research in the field has not fully explored just how far we might take the deployment of technology in improving the performance of healthcare provision. Amia Enam, Heidi Carin Dreyer, Jonas A. Ingvaldsen, and Luitzen De Boer of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim conducted a systematic literature review to come to this conclusion. They identified three key limitations in the published research. First, there is an apparent lack of understanding of the connection between technology and healthcare performance. Secondly, existing theories are not being used effectively in many studies. Thirdly, there is a lack of understanding of the context in which technology is deployed [...]
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