Aims and Scope

Editorial Mission
Open Access Statement
Editorial Focus
Submission Categories
Authorship
Open Access Policy and DOI use
Audience
Governing Body
Fees (APC) and Publishing Model
What APC covers
Waiver policy
Archiving and Scholarly Practices
Indexing and impact factor
Author Self-Archiving
Memberships and Affiliations
Revenue Sources
Copyright and License Notice
Diversity Commitment
SDG Goals
Collection of Data on Editors, Authors, and Peer Reviewers
Journal History
Publisher
Management and Ownership

Editorial Mission

Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) is the open access international peer reviewed journal examining the value of telehealth and clinical automation, its use and scalable developments, clinical informatics, business process guidance, immersive patient experiences, market research, and the economic impact of digital health innovations in advancing value based care across the care continuum. Original research articles and reviews feature perspectives from multiple disciplines including medicine, technology, policy, economic, education, and social impact. Authors are encouraged to submit outcomes data to demonstrate real world cost efficiencies to enhance affordable, accessible, quality care through virtual and digital treatment modalities.

Open Access Statement

THMT is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

THMT Editorial Focus

Manuscripts of interest will present local and global innovations fostering ecosystem efficiencies in virtual care management and medicine in the following areas:

New Business Models, Provider strategies, incentive models, future society transformation strategies, hardware, software and technology selection, financial Impact to health systems and patient out-of-pocket cost, scalability, sustainability
Technology: Artificial intelligence, robotics, voice interface tech, Blockchain and DLT, augmented reality, machine learning, identity management, smart contracts, security, interoperability, standards, scalability, business continuity
Use Cases: use case discovery frameworks, use case roadmaps, key learnings from successful and unsuccessful experiences
Legal and Regulatory: Reimbursement, reduced hospital readmissions, interoperability, mobile health, devices, EMR, health and wellness consumer protection, health policy, patient privacy (GDPR and HIPAA)
Health IT: Electronic health records (EHR), health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, claim adjudication, clinical trials, medical devices, Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, sensors, smart health cities and medically fit homes
Home Care: Long-term care, care giver strategies, remote health, smart cities, sensors, workforce
Security and Governance: Oversight, workflow, staffing solutions, recruitment, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining of security systems
Trending Specialties: Population health, chronic condition management, behavioral health, Tele-dermatology, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology, smart cities and ecosystems for mid-life and beyond
User Experience: market and user segmentation, generational demographics, consumerization of healthcare, behavioral considerations, user centered design, adoption drivers and barriers, Return-on-Adoption
Education: Training tools & tips - the fundamentals, innovation management, managing digital transformation, future workforce, medical education

Submission categories

Authors around the globe are invited to submit manuscripts in the submission categories below. For further details and descriptions, please visit Information for Authors & Editorial Policies here. Categories include:

Original Research
Proof of Concept
Use Cases/Pilots/Methodologies
Production/Deployment/Scaled Use
Narrative/Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analysis
Technical Briefs and Reports
Market Research Report
Editorial or Discussion

In addition, THMT publishes a BLOG, where authors can share experiences and reflections including commentary, discussion and debate on any aspect of healthcare, policy, and technology around the globe. The submission should be approximately 1000 words and referenced in the Vancouver style.

Upload your manuscript on https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

Authorship

THMT follows guidelines for authorship recommended by the ICMJE. Please click this link to review and determine authorship criteria for your submission. Authors must meet all four criteria to be listed as authors. We ask you to familiarize yourself with the recommended guidelines.

THMT urges researchers to consider researcher contributions and authorship criteria in multi-region collaborations in effort to promote greater equity and transparency in research collaborations. Researchers should follow the recommendations set out in the Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings when designing, executing and reporting their research and provide a disclosure statement in their manuscript regarding the global ethics code.

Upload your manuscript on https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

Open Access Policy

Articles are published immediately upon the final correction(s) of the master proof. There are no open access availability, time limits, or paywalls.

All articles are assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier). Authors retain full copyright (see below for copyright policy below).

All THMT articles are open access and at no charge to readers. There are no paywalls.

Audience

The Telehealth and Medicine Today provides a platform that bridges excellence from research laboratory to real world market transformation and impact. Viewership includes leaders from universities, hospitals, medical research centers, payors, researchers, medical directors, IT/IS, healthcare providers, nurses, consultants, service and platform providers, entrepreneurs and startups, pharmaceutical, device, pharmacy, NGO, government, and policy and regulators around the globe.

Governing Body

THMT editorial leadership is comprised of world-renowned experts bringing depth and breadth of knowledge to the journal. For a complete list of board members and financial disclosures, please click this link.

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO, KeyCare and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Amar Gupta, PhD, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and CSAIL, MIT, USA
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, USA

Journal Staff

John Russo Jr., PharmD, Managing Editor, Telehealth and Medicine Today, USA

The Managing Editor conducts plagiarism checks, ensures editorial and research writing standards, desk rejections due to format or language, assigns and ensures timely ethical peer review, scholarly guidelines and practices are adhered as ascribed by ICMJE, COPE and WAME. Editors-in-Chief, Regional, and Associate Editors assess manuscript submission quality, technical, innovation, education and market merits, while all editorial board members and reviewers assess and provide rigorous double blind peer review and constructive feedback for authors. All members abide by publishing ethics guidelines ascribed by COPE to ensure the highest ethics standards are adhered to.

All submissions are reviewed by a minimum of two editors.

Publishing Schedule

THMT is published quarterly, January, April, July, and November. Accordingly, the deadlines for submission are Dec 1, March 1, June 1, and October 1 respectively.

THMT may add additional issues that include its annual ConV2X event meeting proceedings, meeting proceedings that are contracted, and special issues or theme collections. THMT is pleased to publish additional issues to provide the audience with expertise from authorities around the globe, epanding formats that may include visual presentations, video, audio, or a combination thereof. Journal policies and ethics are maintained throughout unless otherwise stated

All THMT articles and content is open access and no charge to readers.

Statistics 2022

- Manuscript Acceptance Rate: 39%
- Number of Days to Acceptance: 36
- Submission to First Decision: 2-6 days
- Desk Rejection Rate: 47%

Fees (APC) and Publishing Model

THMT’s Article Processing Charge (APC) is $650.00 USD. The APC applies to original research published in THMT. APC for students currently enrolled at an academic institution is $450.00 USD. Please plan accordingly. There is no fee for editorials or BLOG posts.

For articles submitted that are accepted from PeerRef, authors of refereed preprints will receive a 10% waiver on the journal's APC.

*******NOTE: To express our gratitude and celebrate THMT's five (5) year milestone, we are excited to announce that we have WAIVED the Article Processing Charge (APC) fee for all submissions received through October 1, 2023. Our aim is to foster even more collaboration and quality submissions in the telemedicine field.

If changes are required post publication and requested by the author(s), a flat $300.00 USD fee will be invoiced for revision(s).

THMT encourages libraries, organizations, and institutions around the globe to execute simple Publish and Read Agreements with the journal. Contact the publisher, Tory Cenaj, at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com

What does the article-processing charge (APC) cover?
Costs are involved in every stage of the publication process, including software, platform hosting, copyediting, production, proofs, graphics, archiving on dedicated servers, time stamping article provenance on the distributed ledger and providing custom dashboards to authors, membership to appropriate scholarly publishing organizations such as STM, COPE, Altmetric, ScienceOpen and many others, management of database and lists, social media dissemination and writing, market research and journal amplification, coding for journal plugins and new features, and compensation for work performed and commissioned (this does not include peer review or board members).

We ask authors to pay an APC if their original research article is accepted for publication. Once published, authors can immediately post their article on non-commercial web sites, institutional repositories, or other free public servers.

Waiver policy

THMT has an active waiver policy for authors from lower-middle income countries as per the World Bank (click here for details). We give fair consideration to all submissions, and believe this should not be linked to the ability to pay.

Where limited funding is available to authors, THMT can provide a complete or partial waiver to authors on request, AFTER, an article is accepted. We review papers based strictly on MERIT. The quality and contribution it makes to the sector supersedes the APC. We believe this is paramount for fair and open exchange.

Archiving and Scholarly Practices

THMT uses LOCKSS preservation, Portico, CrossRef and CrossMark and PKP|PS Indexing service. We adhere to and are members of ICMJE, COPE, and WAME guidelines and practices.

Indexing and impact factor

THMT is indexed in

Scopus (Accepted May 2023)
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER)
Google Scholar
Index Copernicus
NEBIS
PKP Metadata Harvester
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Program
ProQuest Public Health
ScienceOpen
Unpaywall

Launched in March 2018, THMT does not have an impact factor yet. Be assured, THMT is working hard to meet this industry preference, however, trends in the industry indicate the JIF will not be the leading indicator for journal selection and articles will and are being amplified on their own merits. This is why THMT is highly active across social media. We believe authors seek fair and bibliodiverse environments where their work is disseminated and amplified across audiences and relevant scientific, public and not-for-profit ecosystems around the globe.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post any version of their manuscript to personal or institutional websites, in repositories and similar, prior to and after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of that publication). This includes:

Submitted version
Accepted version (author accepted manuscript)
Published version (version of record)

Memberships and Affiliations

Revenue sources

The revenue model consists of the journal APC, advertising support for the journal, reprints, special editions, supplements, summits, roundtables, and custom projects including podcasts and webinars. The journal curates and hosts the annual Converge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) conference (click here for more). Under no circumstance does commercial support impact the editorial decisions for journal manuscript review or acceptance.

Copyright and License Notice

Authors contributing to THMT agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License that allows reuse, subject only to the use being non-commercial, and to the article being fully attributed. Authors hold and retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT). THMT makes all articles open access and freely available from the date of publication.

Diversity Commitment

Partners in Digital Health (PDH) is committed to supporting diversity, inclusion and egalitarianism across scientific and academic communication and in publishing practices.

This belief is reflected in our internal journal practices, editorial and peer review boards, in published content, journal and community outreach and ambassador chapters to demonstrate the portfolio’s integrity, trust and values to communities far and wide in tearing down any barriers and borders relating to knowledge, economics, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, geography and political views. The founder and publisher has stated repeatedly since the journal’s inception, “All are welcome to the table.” The journal maintains an objective, unbiased and fair balanced posture at all times. Priorities and actions include:

Manuscript submission and authorship
Peer reviewers
Editorial and advisory board members
ConV2X conference and pitch competition
Fees and business model
Ambassador chapters

SDG Goals

Partners in Digital Health (PDH) is committed to supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and is a signatory of the UN SDG Publisher’s Compact. Part of this commitment entails that all journal articles are to be published online-only, with no print versions for distribution.

Collection of Data on Editors, Authors, and Peer Reviewers

The journal does NOT collect information on race and ethnicity and does NOT permit editorial decisions to be influenced by the demographic characteristics of authors, peer reviewers, editorial board members, or editors.

We encourage all global citizens from all countries to learn, share and participate as equals. We continuously address equity and inclusion in our portfolio in these areas and others, as needed, to ensure our ongoing commitment to global equality, diversity and inclusion.

Journal History

THMT was first launched on a WordPress platform in 2016. In July 2018, the journal was relaunched on the OJS Platform to conform to guidelines and requirements for traditional peer reviewed scholarly journals. As a startup and market disruptor with limited funding, the publisher came to realize the best way to impact the ecosystem was to engender trust and acceptance for both journal mission and the emerging telehealth niche through traditional methods. Early WordPress articles are not necessarily formatted as traditional research manuscripts or feature abstracts. All WordPress articles were transferred to the OJS platform and given DOI numbers. PDF formats are available, All authors, whether pre- or post-OJS journal launch, own copyrights under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Publisher

The journal is published by Partners in Digital Health (PDH), a forward reaching communications company publishing the peer reviewed journals Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today, producer of the companion ConVerge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) conference series, and Innovation Ignition Pitch Competition. The portfolio converges leading academics, pragmatic innovators, and practitioners around the globe to accelerate healthcare transformation and consensus building for growing research fields. PDH continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices to bring trust, transparency, and truth to its audience.

Management and Ownership

Partners in Digital Health (PDH), was founded in 2015 and is privately owned and independently operated by Tory Cenaj. Please see correspondence details below to contact the owner for inquiries.

Partners in Digital Health
241 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 21
Stamford, CT 06902, USA
Attention: Tory Cenaj, Owner and Publisher

Those with an interest in submitting a manuscript or obtaining further information are encouraged to do so. Send inquiries to the Managing Editor, John Russo, PharmD, at j.russo@partnersindigitalhealth.com or the Owner and Publisher, Tory Cenaj, at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com