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About Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT)
Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) is a leading international peer review journal that examines the value of telehealth and clinical automation from medical, technical, policy, economic and strategic perspectives. Multidisciplinary stakeholders converge to address medical, technical, business and societal aspects of this growing health technology sector. The journal assists building knowledge and consensus to appropriately deploy and scale delivery safe and secure services to achieve sustainable outcomes for affordable, accessible, and quality care for health consumers around the globe, implementing pragmatic approaches to issues such as interoperability, quality and safety of evolving technologies, business processes, and economic systems driving remote care in a value based system. A world-class review board endeavors to offer rapid peer-review (14 days per review round), and includes constructive commentary to strengthen work. TMT is published quarterly. The journal registers original research article provenance on the blockchain for authors to have a permanent and immutable public record of their work to share with the scientific research community at TMT+ARTiFACTS RESEARCH PORTAL.
Publishing issues on a quarterly basis, January, April, July, and October, TMT’s renowned Peer Review Board rigorously vets and objectively evaluates original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, substantiated opinions and related hardware & software data in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth.
Submit a manuscript here or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissionsUnlike other journals in this market today, Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices needed to bring together thought leading academics, pragmatic innovators, and practitioners from the private and public sectors around the world.
- Is dedicated to building knowledge and consensus for deploying and scaling telehealth delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes for affordable, accessible, and quality care for health consumers around the in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth.
- Is published quarterly (January, April, July, October), to accelerate sharing of theoretical and experiential knowledge required for a growth sector.
- Embraces articles that may not be traditionally valued, such as new business models, use cases, deployments and scaled projects around the world that bring cost efficiency to health systems, governments, and consumers, governance, hardware & software selection, trends, user experience, and key learnings from unsuccessful experiences.
- Broadens the scope of scholarly publications’ references to discoverable, reproducible, and annotatable software code required to accelerate technology adoption with credibility and trust via its companion Code Ocean computational reproducibility platform and ARTiFACTS.
- Is led by a renowned Peer Review Board that applies innovative means and tools to rigorously vet and objectively evaluate content in order to demonstrate credible progress that strategic thought leaders, new-era practitioners, and future society stakeholders require.
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Learn more about TMT’s compliance with editorial guidelines and practices here, or go to here, or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/authors
TMT ecosystem:
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TMT is a peer-reviewed Open access (OA) journal that endeavors to meet the highest standards of academic rigor adhering to ICMJE, COPE, and WAME guidelines, publishing original theoretical and experiential knowledge in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth.
TMT is intended for academic and non-academic authors and readers seeking to accelerate healthcare’s pragmatic innovation and technology adoption around the world.
The publisher's vision of building trust through truth is intended to catalyze and align strategic thoughts leaders and dedicated new era thinkers that champion the acceleration of healthcare transformation, harnessing the expertise of local and global leaders to exchange knowledge, build consensus, and change current systems and practices for a better health, where all health citizens benefit.
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No. TMT’s renowned Peer Review Board determines what is accepted following rigorous vetting and objective evaluation of whether the content augments the body of knowledge required for sector growth. Each round of review is 14 days.
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No. TMT does not accept white papers, press releases.
TMT seeks original evidence based manuscripts that address strategic, medical, technical, legal, policy, economic, and social aspects and technology in the sector. TMT assists building knowledge and consensus for deploying and scaling delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes for affordable, accessible, and quality care for health consumers around the world, to drive the global telehealth and remote care revolution in value based care; in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth required to scale initiatives, standards, and policy in the global healthcare sector.
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Publishing issues on a quarterly basis, January, April, July, and November. TMT’s renowned Peer Review Board rigorously vets and objectively evaluates original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, substantiated opinions and related evidence based outcomes in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth.
Submit a manuscript here or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions
TMT is published on a quarterly basis, January, April, July, and November.
DEADLINE for each issue is the 1st of the month preceding publication:
December 1, March 1, June 1, and October 1
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Who may be interested in what is published in TMT?
Public and private sector thought leaders, new-era practitioners, and future society stakeholders around the globe, engaged in telehealth and medicine and converging innovations in healthcare.
Submit a manuscript here or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissionsThousands of readers from over around the world visited TMT’s website
Over 50,000 total reader engagements since launch in July 2018 have been logged.
Article citations, social media conversations, and download statistics are located on the article landing page. Simply click on the article title on the TMT homepage. The article page typically features the article abstract. The article’s download history is located in graph, beneath the abstract.
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Who may be interested to publish in TMT?
Anyone is welcome to submit a substantiated manuscript or perspective which includes, but is not limited to academicians, non-academic practitioners, innovators, subject matter experts, students, etc. from around the world.
TMT invites prospective authors to submit original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, and substantiated opinions on the broad spectrum of topics ranging from theory to science, technologies and methodologies, pilots and scalable deployments, operations and economics, user experience and Return-on-Adoption, legal and regulatory, transformation and disruption, ecosystem and society, and more.
TMT’s renowned Peer Review Board and Editors-in-Chief determine what is published following rigorous vetting and objective, unbiased evaluation of submissions.
Since July 2018, manuscripts from over 75 authors spanning four continents (North America, Europe, Asia and Africa) have been published.
Author affiliations include:
UNIVERSITIES: Harvard, McGill University, MIT, Vanderbilt University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, IFRISSE
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: ATA, IEEE-SA, The Gold Foundation COMPANIES: EGB Law Group, Nixon Law Group, West Corp, 2Morrow Inc. 96Point6
CONSULTING FIRMS: Schumacher Clinical Partners
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What topics are covered in TMT?
TMT invites prospective authors to submit original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, and substantiated opinions on the broad spectrum of topics that may include:
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, machine learning, robotics, voice interface tech, augmented reality, identity management, data management, interoperability, standards, scalability, business continuity and DLT
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, 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: Long-term care, care giver strategies, remote health, smart cities, sensors, workforce
Drug Discovery: Protocol development, clinical study management, devices, sensors, data aggregation,
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
In addiion, TMT 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 approximately1000 words.
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About TMT Peer Review Board
Who are TMT’s Peer Review Board members?
The Editors-in-Chief of Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) are:Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting, USA
Focus area: Primary Care, Physician Satisfaction and Process innovation
Amar Gupta, PhD, MIT’s Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), USA
Focus area: Technology, Policy & Regulation
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, USA
Focus area: Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Interoperability and Device Innovation
Please send inquireis to info@partnersindigitalhealth.com
TMT’s 25 member international Peer Review Board includes:
Czech Republic
Jan Bruhans, PhD, Faculty, Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, and First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University, Prague
INDIA
Krishnan Ganapathy, M Ch ( Neurosurgery) FACS FICS FAMS Ph.D, Director, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, Director, Apollo Tele Health Services
Past President, Telemedicine Society of India, India
Past President, Telemedicine Society of India, India
Arnab Paul, CEO Patient Planet, Board Member, Blockchain in Healthcare
UAE Samer Ellahham, MD, Chief Quality Officer, Senior Cardiovascular Consultant, Cleveland Clinic, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
USA
Oren J. Mechanic, MD MPH, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Health Policy and Management Fellow, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Richard Anglin, President and CEO, telmedx, USA
Richard Bakalar, MD, Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, ViTel Net , USA
Rafael J. Grossmann, , MD, General Trauma Surgery, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Northern Light Health, USA
David B. Nash, MD, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH), USA Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy.
Robert Matthews, PhD, CEO of NudgeWorX, President of Synaural, USA
Chris Wasden, Head of Pharma, Happify Health, Managing Director, Digital Disruption Advisors, USA
Bryan T. Arkwright, MHA, Director, SCP Consulting Services, Adjunct Faculty, Wake Forest University School of Law, Editorial Board, Telehealth and Medicine Today, and Co-Founder/Chief Research Officer, Cromford Health, USA
Charles Gabrial, Chief Science Officer, Analytics and Evaluation Division, Strategy, Planning and Functional Integration, Defense Health Agency (DHA), USA
Guy Glorioso, MHA, MBA, Vice President, Emerging Care Model Dsvision and Virtual Health, Atrium Health, USA
Manouchehr (Mitch) Mokhtari, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Francis L. McVeigh, Director, Army Virtual Health, Patient Care Integration, Fort Detrick, MD, USA
Ralph Panos, MS, Professor, Chief of Medicine, UC Health Cincinnati VA Hospital, USA
Joel Reich, M.D., FACEP, Health Tech Consultant/Graduate level Population Health, Healthcare Economics, & Health Care Leadership Instructor, USA
Andrew Butler, PhD, MBA, PT, FAHA, Associate Dean for Research, Georgia State University, Professor Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing & Health Professions, Georgia State University, USA
Dr. Claude J. Pirtle, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, West Tennessee Healthcare, USA
Shayan Vyas, MD, MBA, FAAP, VP Quality and Innovations, Teladoc Health, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, USA
Debbie Voyles, Executive Director, Virtual Health, UCHealth, Denver Colorado, USA
Stephanie Zawada, MS, Public Health Academy Instructor at the American Medical Students Association, USA
Learn more about the current roster of Peer Review Board members, and their financial and conflict of interest disclosures here , or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam
TMT continuously seeks experts of the highest caliber and passion for the field to expand and diversify the Peer Review Board.
To apply for joining TMT’s Peer Review board, please send a note with your CV to t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com
TMT’s Peer Review board seeks experts of the highest caliber and passion for the field and prefers candidates that possess knowledge of academic journal workflow and familiarity with the peer review process. TMT’s Peer Reviewer evaluation process includes review of the candidate’s CV, and interviews with the candidate and/or colleagues and experts in the field.
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To apply for joining TMT’s Peer Review board, please send a note with your CV to the Editor at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com
The pursuit of trust through transparency and truth is a founding principle and pillar of TMT. For example, TMT is the first journal to require all board members, peer reviewers, and staff to publish financial disclosure and potential conflict of interest disclosures; and to comply with strict impartiality policy and professional conduct.
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What if I want my article published in TMT?
Unlike any other journal in this market today, Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices needed to bring together thought leading academics, pragmatic innovators, and practitioners from the private and public sectors around the world.
As a cited evidence based, peer-review, open-access online journal, TMT provides the following benefits to authors:
IMMEDIATE BROAD EXPOSURE UPON PUBLICATION
- Global reach to readers
- International localized telehealth Chapters
- Altmetric measurement of social media conversations and exchanges
- Email blast to thousands of community members around the world
- Press release about the article and author/s.
- LinkedIn post that the article was published.
- Tweet that the article was published.
- Facebook post
- Media outreach for interveiws
- Re-publication of high interest articles in other journals such as the Mid-East extending reah and awareness for author work beyond TMT's audience
- Posting of a companion author video or podcasts to introduce the article’s abstract and complementary information the author wishes to share with readers
COMPETITIVE MERIT EXPOSURE
- High Consequence Article Interview with journal editor-in –chief for ground breaking research and discoveries.
- Qualification for the annual "Editor's Choice Award," selected by the editors-in-chief, Dr. Amar Gupta and Dr. John Halamka, and announced at the annual #ConV2X conference. The award is based on total views, downloads, and citations. Should the work be a ground breaking game changer in health, the editor-in-chief may take that into consideration and weigh determinants accordingly.
GREAT EASE OF PUBLICATION
- Accepting submissions for each quarterly issue January, April, July and October
- Rapid two-week peer-review turn around
- Establish credibility of the scholarly work as measured by the collaborative work of double blind peer review and renowned reviewers
- Broadening the reach to thought leading academics, pragmatic innovators, and practitioners from the private and public sectors around the world
- Accelerating global scale R&D and collaboration
- Experiencing the benefits from the growing ecosystem led by TMT publisher Partners in Digital Health (PDH):
- Enhancing the author/s trust-based reputation
- Strengthening the validity of the article
- Extending the scope of the article’s relevant software code and data to discoverable, reproducible, and annotatable code with Code Ocean’s cloud-based computational reproducibility platform
- Strengthening the validity and credibility of, and trust in related software code and data with Code Ocean’s cloud-based computational reproducibility platform
- Establishing proof of existence of data, research and development outputs with blockchain-enabled ARTiFACTS.ai platform
- Providing and receiving blockchain-secured attribution and other incentives in real-time during and after completing their research with blockchain-enabled ARTiFACTS.ai platform
- Acquiring proper credit with Publons’ and ReveiwerCredits author-centric one-stop-shop publication aggregation, verification, and management platform
- Improving user experience with tracking the impact of their scholarly publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work with Publons’, ReveiwerCredits, and Editage author-centric one-stop-shop publication aggregation, verification, and management platform
TMT endeavors to adhere to a rapid turnaround of 14 days per review cycle.
The time to final decision depends on two factors:
- How long it takes the author(s) to revise their manuscript.
- How many review cycles the manuscript required until it met all the requirements of the peer reviewers.
Authors are given up to three weeks to make changes/revisions to the manuscript once peer reviewed. Should they need more time, authors are required to contact the Managing Editor, via email, with an explanation.
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To date, two in four articles submitted to TMT have been published.
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TMT’s Article Processing Charge (APC) is $350.00 USD, for manuscripts.
There is NO APC for students currently enrolled at an academic institution or for BLOG posts.
What does the article-processing charge (APC) cover?
Costs are involved in every stage of the publication process, including software, hosting, copy editing, production, proofs, archiving on dedicated servers, time stamping article provanance on the distributed ledger, and providing custom dashboards to authors. 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
Submit a request to the publisher if your manuscript is accepted at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com
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TMT is indexed in Unpaywall, Google Scholar and Public Knowledge Project metadata harvester.
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Launched in March 2018, TMT does not have an Impact Factor yet. Be assured, TMT is working hard to meet that industry standard.
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What is this Partners in Digital Health ecosystem?
TMT’s publisher Partners in Digital Health (PDH) has created, and continues to drive an ecosystem intended to grow the sector’s knowledge base required to accelerate pragmatic innovation in health and wellness for the Future Society, worldwide.
In addition, PDH continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices needed for the future society forging trust, transparency, and truth.
Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) is the preeminent open-access international peer-review journal for strategic thought leaders, practitioners, and community stakeholders engaged in blockchain technology and intersecting innovations in healthcare.
Converge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X), an annual conference that has set out to accelerate healthcare’s pragmatic adoption of new technologies by informing, inspiring, and debating the role and value of technology innovation to health systems, healthcare workforce, and patients around the world.
Innovation Ignition competition demonstrating how telehealth and blockchain technology in health products and services can radically change the future of our health system with innovations that revolutionize and rock current perspectives.
Almetric, helps authors extend short & long term reach of research in social media conversations that include an article DOI. Authors have a new tool to measure how research is shared and discussed. Badges on article landing pages make feedback transparent. The Citation Badge includes Google Scholar, CrossRef, PubMed Central, and Scopus, and also adopts citations in secondary knowledge sources.
ARTiFACTS.ai, creator of the blockchain-enabled platform for academic and scientific research and development. All TMT original articles are time-stamped on the blockhain and all authors are provided a custom dashboard. This ensures reproducibility and enhances citations for authors.
Code Ocean, creator of a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform enabling researchers, engineers, developers, and scientists to link working code in a computational environment.
Editage, has served nearly 371,000 researchers, doctors, and scientists across 191 countries and has transformed over 1M papers across 1,200 disciplines. The partnership with ReviewerCredits is one of many initiatives including peer review support, translation services, manuscript editing and more – all to improve the global science communication process.
ReviewerCredits, is a platform that rewards the contribution of peer reviewers to the publication process via global recognition and tangible benefits. Individuals can file peer review claims for over 23,000 journals worldwide.
Publons, creator of an author-centric one-stop-shop publication aggregation, verification, and management platform.
ATA, a non-profit association based in Washington DC with more than 10,000 industry leaders and healthcare professionals. ATA is working to change the way the world thinks about telemedicine and virtual care as the only organization dedicated to it. For more information go to http://legacy.americantelemed.org/home
IEEE-SA, a non-profit association based in NJ, USA, a global network of industry & technology experts that change the way people live, work, and communicate developing standards, guidelines and best practices for global industries.
DOAJ, Partners in Digital Health are members of the Directory of Open Access Journals
For more information go to https://standards.ieee.org/
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