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Unlike 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, November), to accelerate sharing of theoretical and experiential knowledge required for a growth sector.
• Embraces articles that may not be traditionally valued for 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 editorial team that applies innovative means and tools to rigorously vet and objectively evaluate content in order to demonstrate credible progress in the newly evolving discipline.

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TMT ecosystem:

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TMT is a peer-reviewed gold open access 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 multidisciplinary stakeholders to accelerate the transformation and modernization of healthcare, harnessing local and global leaders to exchange knowledge, build consensus and best practices for a better health for 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 or press releases.

TMT seeks original evidence based manuscripts that address strategic, medical, technical, legal, policy, economic, and social aspects impacting 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.

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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.

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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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TMT is a gold open access international peer reviewed journal examining the value of telehealth and clinical automation, its use and scalable developments, business process guidance, market research and the economic impact of digital health innovations in an evolving health technology sector. The journal is open access (has no paywalls) and  there is no charge to access any content.

✓ Readers from 104+ countries visit TMT
✓ 290,093 total reader engagements have been logged since launch
✓ Reader average annual engagements 22,426
✓ Indexed in ScienceOpen, Index Copernicus, Unpaywall, NEBIS, Google Scholar and PKP harvester 

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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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 editorial team and Editors-in-Chief determine what is published following rigorous vetting and objective, unbiased evaluation of submissions.

Since July 2018, manuscripts from a bibliodiverse global ecosystem are published in TMT with authors spanning North America, Europe, Asia, LATAM,  and Africa.

Author affiliations include:

UNIVERSITIES: Harvard, McGill University, MIT, Vanderbilt University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, IFRISSE, Kennesaw University, UCSF

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: ATA, IEEE-SA, The Gold Foundation, ISfTeH

COMPANIES: EGB Law Group, Nixon Law Group, West Corp, 2Morrow Inc. 96Point6, Avera and others

CONSULTING FIRMS: Schumacher Clinical Partners, Deloitte

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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

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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Submit a manuscript here or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) continuously brings together thought leading academics, pragmatic innovators, and practitioners from the private and public sectors around the world.

✓ Readers from 104+ countries visit TMT
✓ 290,093 total reader engagements have been logged since launch
✓ Reader average annual engagements 22,426
✓ Indexed in ScienceOpen, Index Copernicus, Unpaywall, NEBIS, GFMER, ProQuest Health & Medical Complete, ProQuest Public Health, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Program, Google Scholar and PKP harvester 

TMT provides the following benefits to authors:

• Immediate broad exposure upon publication that is open access 
• International TMT Chapters to amplify and promote work locally around the globe
• 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
• Social media amplification including Twitter, Facebook and others
• Media outreach for interveiws
• Re-publication of high interest articles in other journals extending reach 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 on YouTube
• Scite badges are featured on article landing pages to help researchers better discover and evaluate scientific research. Citations provide a context and classification describing whether it provides supporting or disputing evidence for the cited claim and facilitates reproducibility.
• Note: TMT accepts video submissions to compliment an author's written work. Videos can demonstrate simulations, experimental demos, or "interviews" with authors/researchers, from 5-7 minutes maximum length.

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

• Better customer service and timely responses to questions
• 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 number of Days to Accept a final manuscript in 2021 was 54.
• In 2021, TMT manuscript Acceptance Rate in regular issue was 56%.

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 meets 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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In 2021, TMT manuscript Acceptance Rate in regular issue was 56%.

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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

TMT 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, TMT 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.

TMT is indexed in ScienceOpen, Index Copernicus, Unpaywall, NEBIS, GFMER, 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 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 seek fair and bibliodiverse environments where their work is disseminated and amplified across audiences and relevant ecosystems around the globe.

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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.  

TMT is a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishersand DOAJ

For more information go to https://standards.ieee.org/

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