Submission Information

General Information for Authors

Editorial Focus

Editorial Categories

Publishing Schedule

Editorial Review Time

Production Time

Audience

Authorship and related information

Criterion for publication

Fees and Publishing Model

Waiver policy

Refund policy

Copyright

Competing interests

Open access policy

Embargo policy

 

 Editorial Focus

Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) is an open access, international peer reviewed journal advancing virtual care through rigorous research and real world implementation evidence. THMT employs a Design Science Research framework, publishing work that builds and validates healthcare innovations—algorithms, clinical workflows, digital platforms, and service delivery models—that demonstrate measurable impact from pilot to population scale. The journal prioritizes research reporting clinical outcomes, operational scalability, equity impact, safety validation, and health system integration. We publish studies that provide implementation frameworks, policy guidance, and evidence based pathways for translating telehealth innovation into sustainable practice. Through interdisciplinary collaboration across clinical medicine, health informatics, biomedical engineering, health policy, and applied technology. The journal bridges telehealth theory and practice to transform healthcare—while demonstrating pathways to accessible, affordable, quality care. Upload your work to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

THMT Editorial Topics of Interest:

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: immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, voice interface tech, identity management, smart contracts, security architectures, data management, interoperability, standards, governance, DLT

Use Cases: discovery frameworks, roadmaps, key learnings from successful and unsuccessful experiences

Legal and Regulatory: reimbursement, reduced hospital readmissions, interoperability, mobile health, global 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), interoperatbility, claim adjudication, clinical trials, medical devices, Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, sensors, smart health cities and medically fit homes

Home Care: hospital to home, care team strategies, remote patient montoring (RPM), smart home tech, sensors

Workforce:  workflow, staffing solutions, recruitment, stress management, business managment skills

Trending Specialties and Topics: immersive technology experiences, population health, chronic condition management, behavioral health, tele-dermatology, tele-radiology, tele-pathology, smart homes and ecosystems 

User Experience: market and user segmentation, demographics, consumerization of healthcare, behavioral considerations, user centered design, adoption drivers and barriers, ROI

Education: training tools & tips, fundamentals, innovation management, managing digital transformation, future workforce, medical education 

Submission Categories

Authors around the globe are invited to submit manuscripts in the following categories:

  • Original Research
  • Proof of Concept//Pilots/Methodologies
  • Use Case
  • Production/Deployment
  • Narrative/Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analysis
  • *Clinical Case Studies
  • *Technical Briefs & Reports
  • *Editorials and Discussions

*1,500 -2, 500 word limit with references

For further details and descriptions, please visit Information for Authors & Editorial Policies at https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/authors

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.

Authors can include relevant software code and data in the peer review process by uploading it to THMT’s Code Ocean computational reproducibility workflow.

Publishing Schedule

THMT is published quarterly in January, April, July and November. 

DEADLINE for manuscript submissions:  December 1, March 1, June 1, and October 1. 

NOTE: Beginning in 2024, THMT will increase frequency to six (6) issues and publish work on a bi-monthly schedule: February, April, June, August, October, and December. Respective deadlines will be the first of the month prior. For example, the deadline for the April issue will be March 1, and so on. 

All THMT articles and content is open access with no time limitation or paywalls (no charge to readers). 

Editorial Review Time

Papers submitted are subject to rigorous peer review to ensure that the research published is 'good science.' Peer review, and author revisions, are often the lengthiest part of the manuscript review process.

Journals usually ask reviewers to complete their reviews within 3-4 weeks. However, few journals have a mechanism to enforce the deadline, which is why it can be hard to predict how long the peer review process will take. Highly technical papers and papers from niche subject areas can take longer to review.

Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. Traditional, high-quality peer-review standards are applied to all manuscripts submitted to the journal.

All manuscripts and associated material submitted to THMT remain confidential while under review and reviewers are informed of this in their agreements, at onboarding, and throughout the review process.

THMT recognizes speed to publication is important to authors. Once a submission has been accepted for peer review, two (2) to three (3) expert reviewers are asked to assess the merits of the work and provide feedback. Reviewer feedback is communicated to the corresponding author by the Managing Editor.

Two peer reviewers must accept the paper for publication, or provide commentary for revisions requiring a resubmission. If we do not possess board expertise to conduct a review, we will ask the author for suggestions for expert reviewers, and invite them to act as expert guest reviewer for the submission. This may delay the review process. The managing editor will inform authors to expect delays if inviting a guest reviewer is required.

Article Production Time

If your paper is accepted, it typically takes up to two weeks to approve and finalize galley proofs, stylistic changes, and minor edits before uploading the article site for live publication.

THMT Audience

The Telehealth and Medicine Today audience includes leadership from enterprise, hospitals and medical research centers, payer organizations including researchers, medical directors, IT/IS, healthcare providers, nurses, universities, consultants, business management, entrepreneurs/startups, biopharma/device/pharmacy, NGO, government, and policy.

Authorship and related information

Manuscripts are exclusively submitted to THMT, with the understanding they have not been published elsewhere, in any form, and will not be submitted elsewhere, unless declined by THMT.

If a manuscripts was submitted to another journal and declined, the author should disclose why and what attempts have been made to revise the manuscript for resubmission. Authors are responsible for all statements made in the article and references cited.

THMT follows the ICMJE recommendations for scholarly work in medical journals, as it aspires to adhere to the highest standards of scholarly publication practices. Details may be obtained here. THMT requires these guidelines and recommendations are met for authors submitting papers to THMT for review and publication.

Below you will find the "Role of Authors and Contributors" as outlined by ICMJE. Should you wish for a more detailed explanation, please click here. All authors must meet all four criteria below.

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  • Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  • Final approval of the version to be published; AND
  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria above can be listed in the Acknowledgments section of your manuscript. See the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines for "Non-Author Contributors" here." Obtaining funding, collecting of data, or overall supervision of a research group does not qualify authorship.

Criteria for Publication

Your manuscript submission should represent the following:

Originality and practicality in the global advancement of blockchain and intersecting technologies in healthcare

Importance to research, practice, or changes in the field

Interest and relevance for the THMT audience and those with an interest in blockchain technology and innovations in healthcare

Rigorous methodology, with conclusions justified by the evidence presented

Adherence to the highest ethical standards

Fees and Publishing Model

THMT’s Article Processing Charge (APC) is $650.00 USD. The APC applies to original research published in TMT. APC for students currently enrolled at an academic institution is $450.00 USD. Please plan accordingly. There is a flat $350 USD fee for changes made post publication.

There is no fee for editorials or BLOG posts.

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, 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 manuscript is accepted for publication. Once published, authors can immediately post their article on non-commercial web sites, institutional repositories, or other free public servers. The APC only applies to original research published in THMT.  There is no charge for BLOG posts.

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. 

Revenue sources

These consist of the journal APC, advertising support for the journal, reprints, article publication fees, special editions, supplements, summits, advisory, roundtable proceedings, and custom projects.  The journal hosts the annual Converge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) conference. Under no circumstance does commercial support impact the editorial decisions for journal manuscript review or acceptance.

Copyright

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. THMT makes all open access articles freely available from the date of publication on THMT.  Open access enables the free publication to everyone, of research, sharing of information, and reuse with minimal restrictions, and are identified by the Creative Commons copyright statement that appears at the end of articles published.

Competing interests

THMT editors are not paid a fixed salary. Editors, editorial board members, and peer reviewers are required to declare all relevant financial and competing interests which are published here. Reviewers do not participate in the submission process should they have a competing interest.

Likewise, authors are required to disclose financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results. All submitted manuscripts include a ‘Conflict of Interests’ section listing all competing interests (financial and non-financial). 

Open access policy

THMT publishes articles under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license that allows non-commercial reuse, and fully attribution from the date of publication. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0. 

Journalists, PIOs and bloggers must credit THMT as Source when quoting articles, and provide a link to the journal and/or the original article with the DOI number cited.

Open access articles are owned by the author and can be identified by the Creative Commons copyright statement that appears at the end of the article.

Indexing

THMT is indexed in 11 databases:

  • Scopus
  • Google Scholar
  • EBSCOhost Health Business Elite
  • Nebis
  • Proquest databases (3)
  • Public Knowledge Project metadata harvester
  • ScienceOpen
  • Unpaywall
  • Index Copernicus
  • GFMER

Impact factor

Launched in July 2018, TMT does not have an impact factor yet. Be assured, TMT 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 TMT is highly active across social media. We believe authors and funding organizations seek fair and bibliodiverse environments where work is disseminated and amplified across audiences and relevant ecosystems around the globe.

Embargo Policy 

The content of accepted articles cannot appear in print, on media outlets, or electronic form (including blogs and discussion groups), prior to publication on the THMT website. Abstracts of work may be presented at scientific conferences.