Call for Papers

Call for Papers: AI-Enabled Telehealth, Virtual Care & the Future of Digital Medicine

A Personal Invitation

As Editor-in-Chief of Telehealth & Medicine Today, it gives me great pleasure to invite colleagues, innovators, and thought leaders from around the world to contribute to the journal.

Healthcare is undergoing one of the most profound shifts in its history, driven by telehealth, AI, virtual care, and digitally enabled clinical practice. THMT aims to capture that transformation through the highest quality evidence, insights, and real world experience.

I warmly encourage you to share your expertise, your research, and your innovations with our global readership.

Dr. Suhail Chughtai, FRCS

THMT Editor-in-Chief

Topics for Articles

We welcome submissions that advance the science, policy, or practical delivery of AI-enabled telehealth and virtual care, including:

  • Generative AI in clinical workflows, documentation, triage, and decision support
  • Remote monitoring, predictive analytics, digital diagnostics, and virtual wards
  • Telemedicine platforms, IoT, wearables, and technology-assisted home-care
  • Regulation, ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, and medico-legal issues
  • Implementation science, health economics, workforce transformation
  • Real-world clinical, operational, or systems-level evaluations

Why Publish In THMT?

  • High global visibility in telehealth, digital health, and AI-enabled medicine
  • Rapid and rigorous peer review
  • Interdisciplinary audience across clinical, academic, industry, and policy domains
  • Platform that highlights innovation with real-world impact

Learn more about Why Choose THMT at 

https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/THMT

Authors are encouraged to build upon prior research published in THMT to foster scholarly continuity and field development. Search past articles in the THMT Article Research Compendium HERE.

Articles Types & Limitations

  • Original Research
  • Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
  • Technical / Innovation Reports
  • Case Studies
  • Policy / Regulatory Analyses
  • Perspectives & Commentaries
  • Short Communications
  • Letters

Word limit: 8,000 words including references.

Manuscript Preparation

Follow Manuscript Preparation Guidelines at 

https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/manuscriptprep

Upload Manuscripts via the Submission Portal at

https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

THMT encourages open data, code, and supplementary material to support transparency and reproducibility.

APC Fees and Publishing Model 

There is a fee to publish an article in the journal. THMT’s Article Processing Charge (APC) for the international specialty journal is $650.00 USD, and $450 USD for students currently enrolled at universities. No APC is required for manuscripts featuring failed and negative experiments. The APC must be paid prior to publication and will be invoiced at manuscript acceptance. There is no fee for editorials.

Deadline

Ongoing

Peer Review

Manuscript selection and acceptance will be based on the THMT peer-review process located here.

Contact

If you would like to discuss the suitability of your manuscript or a proposed idea, please feel free to reach out:

Dr Suhail Chughtai, FRCS
Editor-in-Chief, Telehealth & Medicine Today
Email: suhailzb@gmail.com

I look forward to receiving your work and showcasing the best of global digital-health innovation in this Special Issue.

posted December.1.2025

 

Special Issue: Smart Technology Transformation in Healthcare

THMT invites submissions for a special issue exploring the transformative potential of digital tools, AI, and smart platforms in bridging disparities and enhancing care delivery in telehealth and medicine. This issue aims to aggregate citable, high-impact research that contributes to the foundation of a more equitable and efficient future of care. This issue will include papers accepted for the Smart Transformation in Healthcare ConV2X Event in New York City, October 30 & 31. See https://telehealth.conv2xsymposium.com

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are encouraged to submit original research, reviews, case studies, and commentaries on topics including but not limited to:

  • AI/ML for patient triage and diagnostics
  • Language access and health equity platforms
  • Digital front doors and remote intake optimization
  • Human centered UX in telehealth systems
  • Smart EHR integrations and interoperability
  • Remote monitoring validation frameworks
  • Regulation, reimbursement, and policy frameworks for virtual care

We encourage authors to reference and build upon prior research published in THMT to foster scholarly continuity and field development.
Search past articles in the THMT Article Research Compendium HERE.

Publication Date: December 2025 Issue – submissions ongoing.

WHY PUBLISH IN THMT?

  • Open access, public reach, global indexing
  • Article-level metrics via Altmetric
  • Timely editorial decisions and publication timelines
  • Opportunity for media spotlight and conference exposure

Learn more about Why Choose THMT at https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/THMT

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Questions? Contact: John Russo, Jr. PharmD, at j.russo@partnersindigitalhealth.com

Editorial board oversight includes

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, USA

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

Amar Gupta, PhD, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA

For a complete list of editors that may be called to peer review submissions, please visit https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

APC Fees 

THMT APC is $650 and $450 for enrolled university students. 

There is NO APC for failed or negative research, editorials, or blogs.

posted July 17, 2025

 

2025 THMT Call for Manuscripts

Editors of the peer reviewed Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) open access journal  invite high-quality submissions focusing on original research, reviews, and opinions from multidisciplinary professionals around the globe to share digital health Innovations that improve outcomes. Topics may include:

New Business Models: Provider strategies, incentive models, future society transformation, platform technology, scalability, sustainability, workflow and business processes, business continuity, utilization and downstream care, emergency visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions, faster access to medical doctor in the concerned specialty across organizational and political boundaries, reducing  costs, workforce and crisis models, low-income and rural community strategies for success,

Technology: Artificial intelligence, Large Language Models, AI-enabled disease detection, treatment outcome prediction and response, intelligent exam protocol, AI-driven clinical integration and care management, scale achieved through robotic process automation, chatbots,voice interface tech, machine learning, interoperability, immersive experiences in healthcare settings, network architectures, wireless and mobile service platforms, teleICU environment and case studies,  globally distributed teams (like 24-Hour Knowledge Factory concept) of medical doctors and nurses to enhance speed and quality of medical services,

Use Cases: Key learnings from successful and unsuccessful experiences, rural care access, reducing administrative burden for frontline healthcare workers, remote patient monitoring for chronic conditions, communication and counseling, disaster and emergency medicine, failed and negative experiences, case studies of pre-COVID time, COVID time, and post COVID time transformations,

Legal and Regulatory: Reimbursement, reduced hospital readmissions, health policy, information governance & data protection, standards and methods for data curation, distribution, sharing, and management in AI medicine, standards, discovery frameworks, roadmaps, socio-political issues, cultural and ethical implications of advances in technology, ethics, providing quicker, better, and less expensive health services across states, countries, and continents,

Health IT: Electronic health records (EHR), health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, medical devices, internet of things (IOT), wearables, sensors, consumer personalized self care, big data and data management, wellness and prevention, addressing the problem of missing and conflicting data, novel methods for generating synthetic data,

Home Care: Remote patient monitoring for chronic conditions, communication and counseling, senior and home care intervention, surgical recovery strategies & outcomes, care equity for persons with disabilities, patient portals and personal health apps, UX design, patient and provider relationships, frameworks redefining traditional medical practice,

Specialty Medicine: All specialist care, population health, behavioral health, teledermatology, teleradiology, telepathology, telecardiology, teleophthalmology, teleoncology, telepsychiatry, teledentistry, etc.,

User Experience: Consumerization of healthcare, user centered design, adoption drivers and barriers, culturally appropriate services, patient and provider relationships, provider-to- provider experiences, trends and innovations,

Education: Training tools & tips, fundamentals, managing digital transformation, future workforce, medical education, buying software and hardware, alleviating workforce stress.

Editorial board oversight will include

 John D. Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, USA

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

Amar Gupta, PhD, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA

For a complete list of editors that may be called to peer review submissions, please visit https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

APC Fees 

THMT APC is $650 and $450 for enrolled university students. 

There is NO APC for failed or negative research, editorials, or blogs.

Frequency

Quarterly (4) issues per year: March, June, September, and December.

Respective deadlines will be the first of the month prior. For example, the deadline for the March issue is Feb 1, and so on.

posted January 31, 2025