Health management is a primary area of market competitiveness and sustainability in health care industry. Information in the global and/or local health care industry is a major driver of organizational innovation, business dynamics and business value chain. Health management and information are integral players in the 21st health care industry.
Nevertheless, how to foster health management and information has rarely been explored in terms of global or local business perspectives. To fulfill this urgent and timely theme, health care organizations need more sustainable profitability, better operational excellence, higher health services quality, more proper market promotion, stronger leaderships, and more accurate financial planning in order that health care organizations are more competitive.
This journal’s main objective is to establish an outlet for executives, managers, educators, and researchers interested in a variety of topics in health management and information in terms of global or local perspectives. Thus, papers submitted for this journal should address the global or local implications of health management and information.
Subject Coverage
Examples of topics appropriate to the theme of health management and information include:
Case studies of health management and information
Pedagogy to foster health management and information
New business creation in health industry
Resource allocation in health care system
Sustainability and profitability in health industry
Health care information system
Operational excellence
Leadership in health care organizations
Quality in health care and services
Health care market promotion
Health financing and investment
TQM, BPR, ERP, CRM, SCM in health industry
Telemedicine, e-Health, u-Health system
Technology management in health industry
Health prevention and care planning
Health service research and policy
Entrepreneurial and venture business in health care industry
Ethical issues in health care organizations
Business performance in health-related industry
Other related topics
Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers must an original manuscript that have neither been previously published, nor currently reviewing for publication elsewhere. All submitted manuscripts are refereed through a double blinded peer review process.
Author instruction, sample copies and other pertinent information for submitting manuscripts are available on upon request.
Editors and Notes
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail to the following:
E-mail: ijhmi.office@gmail.com
Author Guidelines
Papers should be in English.
Papers for publication should be sent to co-editors: Richard C. Larson, MIT, USA, Chang W. Lee, Hanyang University, Korea, E-mail: ijhmi.office@gmail.com, with a copy to leecw@hanyang.ac.kr
Author(s) are encouraged to submit manuscripts in electronic form.
Electronic manuscripts submitted in programs such as MS Word or PDF format are acceptable.
Manuscripts should be typed on A4/Letter-sized paper, double-spaced, on one side only with wide margin. The preferred Typeface is Times New Roman of Font size 12. All pages except for a title page should be numbered consecutively.
A title page of the manuscript should contain the following information: (i) title, (ii) name(s) of author(s) and institutional affiliation(s) and (iii) up to five key words. Provide mailing address, e-mail address, phone, and fax numbers of the corres-ponding author as a footnote on the same page.
Any acknowledgements or information on grants may be included at the bottom of the title page. No name(s) of author(s) should appear beyond the title page.
The text of the article shall be preceded by an abstract of around of around 150 words. The abstract may be single-spaced.
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively with superscript Arabic numerals.
At the end of the text of the article, all figures and tables should start on separate pages and be numbered with Arabic numerals while the location of figures and tables should be indicated in the text.
References should begin on a separate page at the end of the paper. It should contain all the works referred to in the text.
(for a journal article) Trimmer K.J., Pumphrey L.D. and Wiggins C., (2002), "ERP Implementation in Rural Health Care", Journal of Management in Medicine, 16 (2/3), 113-132.
(for a book) Charnes A. and Cooper W.W., (1961), "Management Models and the Industrial Applications of Linear Programming", 1-2, Wiley, New York, NY.
Submission of paper will be taken to imply that the paper contains on original work not previously published, or being considered elsewhere for publication.
Upon acceptance of an article, copyright in the article shall be transferred to the publisher in order to ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
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