Announcements

8th Annual ConV2X Symposium for Blockchain and Technology in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Sept 10 & 11, Boston, MA, USA. Register at https://conv2xsymposium.com/registration/

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BHTY is pleased to announce inclusion in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). 

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Index updates as of April 2024

• Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) H-Index:6
• Scopus Citescore 2023:  2.4

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Visit the new PDH Career site here. 

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BHTY is pleased to announce it is indexed on the EBSCOhost Health Business Elite index - the largest serving hospitals,  health practices, and universities worldwide.

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Journal Peer Review Recognition 2023

Blockchain In Healthcare Platform Approaches Journal (BHTY) would like to thank 2023 editors for their invaluable contributions, selfless volunteerism, and expertise. Journal staff is grateful for their dedication to maintaining high standards and integrity of the scholarly record. It is their passion and commitment that make the journal a high value publication in the field. Join us in thanking them for their service, passion, commitment, and enduring contributions to advancing the frontiers of research and knowledge. The following editors participated in the peer review process for articles published in 2023: 

Abderahman Rejeb, PhD, Department of Logistics and Forwarding, Széchenyi István University, Hungary

Brian Ahier, Lead Health Technology Engineer, MITRE Corporation, USA

Daniel Conway, PhD,  Associate Director, Blockchain Center of Excellence, Clinical Professor of Information Systems, University of Arkansas, USA

Eugene Miheso Swinnerstone, EMBA, MSc. IS, Managing Partner Trend Systems E.A. LTD. Part-time Lecturer & Project Manager, AI Lab Makerere University, Uganda

​Gianluca De Novi, PhD, Director of the Medical Device and Simulation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Horst Treiblmaier, PhD​, ​Professor, Head of the School of International Management, Modul University Vienna, Austria​

Imtiaz Khan, PhD, Associate Professor of Data Science, Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes MD, EMBA, Founder & CEO, Institute for Science, Entrepreneurship and Investments, and Faculty, University of Miami, USA

James B. Davis, PhD, Stephenson Dept of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems, Louisiana State University, USA 

Jorge A. Ferrer, MD, MBA, FAMIA, FHIMSS, Clinical Informaticist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, USA 

Kenneth Bradberry, PhD, Cyber Security Lead Instructor, Cyber Security Lead Instructor, University of Michiga​n Nexus, Program Head, Tech Madhindra, USA

Kohei Kurihara, Founder, Privacy by Design Lab, Japan

Muthu Ramachandran, PhD, Educational & Research Consultant AI Tech, Leeds, UK, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton, UK​

Nadia Hewett, Blockchain and Emerging Technology Expert, University of California, USA

Prasad Kothari, MS, Chief Analytics Officer, Hansa Cequity, Advisor, Ramanujan Machine, India

Solomon Nagash, PhD, PMP, Professor of Information Systems, Coles College of Business, Dept. of Information Systems and Security, Co-Director, madLAb, Kennesaw State University, USA

Synho Do, MS, PhD​, Director, Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation, Radiology, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical Schoo​l, Affiliate Faculty, Kempner Institute, Harvard University, USA

Talisha Shine, MBA, Director of Studio Operations, Hashed Health, USA

Tamara StClaire, PhD, MBA, President, Primary Care Delivery Services, MaineHealth, USA

Uli Broedl, MD, SVP, Head of Global Clinical Development and Operations, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH & Co KG, Germany

Wendy Charles, PhD, CIP, CCRP, CBP, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Equideum Health, USA

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Should you need low cost assistance with your manuscript, please visit the new BHTY service provider, PaperPal Preflight, at

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NEW BHTY Manuscript Template is located at

https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/6

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BHTY 2023 CME Program now available. The program features global researchers and market executives from the Annual ConV2X Symposium in DLT and blockchain technology in healthcare. Obtain real world guidance and education to navigate a new health data economy successfully. Collaborators include leaders from multidisciplinary global organizations including universities, health systems, payors, consortiums, pharmaceutical & medical device manufacturers, government, NGO, consultants, think tanks, clinicians, and others. View details at https://pdhinstitute.com/conv2x-blockchain

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BHTY is pleased to announce the journal has been accepted to PubMed, December 2022.

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Beginning January 2023, authors will have the option to chose Transparent Peer Review (TPR) for manuscripts submitted. Please see Information for Authors or Journal Information for details.

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Plain Language Summaries (PLS) are encouraged for authors to include in manuscripts. These summaries have emerged as a valuable article addition that distills scientific information in a simple and easy to read form for the broadest possible understanding across a variety of stakeholders, thereby expanding the reach of an author’s work. Communicating the significance of scientific research evidence to audiences including patients and mass media can provide more inclusion across nontechnical, non-specialist, and time-challenged audiences.

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BHTY encourages libraries, organizations, and institutions around the globe to execute simple Publish and Read Agreements with the journal. Contact the publisher, Tory Cenaj, at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com

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BHTY is indexed in EngineeringVillage.

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BHTY is pleased to announce t journal is indexed in the following ProQuest databases:

• ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
• ProQuest Public Health
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Program

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BHTY is pleased to announce the journal has been approved for coverage in Scopus.

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BHTY COPE Recognition

Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) open access peer reviewed journal is pleased, proud and grateful to be newly recognized by COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics!

Congratulations to all journal board members and staff, for working so hard to ensure ethical operation and workflows are adhered to, bringing the highest caliber work to the global scientific research and public communities for objective dissemination, review and discussion. 

Thanks to authors for selecting this new journal for submission and publication of research. It is the reason we try harder - and place ethics and governance in such high esteem.

We sincerely thank review committee members and all their efforts at COPE, to keep ethical practices and integrity a hallmark of scientific communications.

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BHTY accepts video submissions to compliment an author's written work. Videos can demonstrate simulations, experimental demos, or "interviews" with authors/researchers. Authors should submit a jpeg representing the video and/or transcript of audio.

Video format may be MP4. Length: 5-7 minutes maximum.

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BHTY is pleased to offer authors the option of paying their APC with digital currency (Bitcoin). Contact the publisher for more information if you would like to use this payment method at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com

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BHTY features Scite badges to the gold open access publication. Scite's mission to make science more reliable by helping 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. Scite has analyzed over 18 million full-text publications across disciplines, extracting and analyzing over 625M citation statements to help readers better evaluate articles published and facilitate reproducibility.

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BHTY ConV2X 2020 Symposium Highlights, "Transforming Health Care in the Wake of a Global Pandemic"

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Submit your Technical Briefs to BHTY

1500 word limit. Submissions undergo double blind peer review. Technical Briefs may capture design, challenges, new technologies and applications, standards, performance analysis and optimization to communicate information obtained through a process of technical or experimental work. Submit your timely article to inform the research community, enterprise, peers - and advance blockchain and DLT in healthcare at https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

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• American Telemdicine Association (ATA), USA
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE SA), USA

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BHTY is the preeminent open-access international peer-review journal covering blockchain and DLT research and innovations in healthcare.

To submit a manuscript, technical brief, op-ed or blog, click here

To learn more choosing BHTY to amplify your work, click here.

For inquiries, contact BHTY at info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

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Blockchain in Healthcare Today  accepts manuscript submissions on a rolling basis. As articles are accepted, they are published on a continuous basis.

Please send inquiries to: info@partnersindigitalhealth.com 

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Blockchain in Healthcare Today is partnered with Code Ocean!

Authors can transparently share code associated with their research, with readers. Code Ocean, is a cloud based computational reproducibility platform, where researchers, engineers, developers, and scientists can upload code and data in any open source programming language and link working code in a computational environment within an article. The Code Ocean platform can also be used to include an executable copy of an author's code for the peer review process.