Unlike any other journal in this market today, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) 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.

A First-In-Category international peer-review open-access online academic journal, BHTY:

• Is dedicated to blockchain and converging technologies in healthcare around the world in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth.
• Is published on a continuous basis to accelerate sharing of theoretical and experiential knowledge and related data and software required for a growth sector.
• Embraces articles that may not be traditionally valued, such as preliminary discovery, 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.
• All BHTY original articles are time-stamped on the blockhain and all authors are provided a custom dashboard. This ensures reproducibility and enhances citations for authors.
• Is led by an internationally 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.

Learn more about the Peer Review Board here , or go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

Learn more about BHTY’s compliance with editorial guidelines and practices here, or go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/authors

Language Editing services are located on https://pdh.editage.com/

All manuscripts must be submitted in English and meet the high-quality standards set by the journal. Writing should be clear and concise with the correct use of grammar and spelling. If you are unsure whether your manuscript meets (BHTY/TMT)’s requirements, we recommend asking a native English-speaking colleague to review it prior to submission. There are also agencies that can help; for example, we partner with Editage to offer a Language Editing Service. This includes a Premium Editing Service which ensures your manuscript meets (BHTY/TMT)’s formatting requirements and supports you in the preparation of your cover letter.

BHTY’s scholarly ecosystem incudes the following:

 

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BHTY 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.

A First-in-Category, BHTY 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 community stakeholders that champion the acceleration of healthcare transformation, harnessing the expertise of local and global leaders to exchange knowledge, build consensus to create a healthier society where all citizens benefit.

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No. BHTY’s internationally renowned Peer Review Board determine what is accepted following rigorous vetting and objective evaluation of whether the content augments the body of knowledge required for sector growth.

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No. BHTY does not accept white papers, press releases, or any other content that was previously made public.

BHTY only accepts original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, substantiated opinions and related data and software in the pursuit of trust through transparency and truth required to establish credibility and validity for this technology in the healthcare sector.

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BHTY operates on a continuous basis. There is no-deadline. Manuscripts are submitted ad published on a rolling basis.

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BHTY operates on a continuous basis. There is no-deadline. Manuscripts are submitted and published on a rolling basis.

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An evidence based open access journal where public and private sector thought leaders, practitioners, and community stakeholders around the globe engaged in blockchain technology and converging innovations in healthcare share research and perspectives to enhance the understanding and utilization of the techology in healthcare.

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Thousands of readers from over 70+ countries visited BHTY’s website.

Over 140,000+ total reader engagements since launch in March 2018 have been logged.

Article citations stand at 150+ and continuously grow. Social media conversations, and download statistics are located on the article landing page. Simply click on the article title on the BHTY homepage. The article page typically features the article abstract. The adticle's download history is located  in a  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.

BHTY 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.

BHTY’s internationally renowned Peer Review Board and Editor-in-Chief determine what is published following rigorous vetting and objective, unbiased evaluation of submissions.

To date, manuscripts from over 90 authors spanning two continents including North America and Europe, have been published.

Author affiliations include:

UNIVERSITIES: Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, McGill University, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Lipscomb University, Edinburgh Napier University, Technical University of Denmark, Kennesaw State University 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: ATA, IEEE-SA, HIMSS

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (MNCs): Intel, IBM Research.

HEALTHCARE PAYERS: Aetna, Independence Blue Cross

HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES (HIEs): HealtHIE Nevada

CONSULTING FIRMS: Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, bPrescient, Inc

SMBs: R&D Ribitzky, bPrescient, Inc, Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, PioneerRx, OPPM

STARTUPS: Patientory, Izzy Care LLC

Author professional titles include:

ACADEMIC TITLES: Professor, Associate Professor, Research Fellow, Director of Graduate Studies, Curriculum Developer

CLINICAL TITLES: Physician, Pharmacist

CORPORATE TITLES: Founder, CEO, Executive Director, Managing Director, Director, Founding Partner, Strategic Advisor

TECHNOLOGY TITLES: CIO, Clinical Data Architect, Director

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BHTY invites prospective authors to submit original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, and substantiated opinions on the broad spectrum of topics that may include:

• USE CASES:  contact tracing,  supply chains and management, distributed data storage, security and privacy, cybersecurity, enterprise grade, discovery frameworks, roadmaps, key learnings from successful and unsuccessful experiences
• SPECIAL REPORTS: public health impact, pandemic core challenges and opportunities with DLT, consensus statements, guidelines and recommendations from a task force or work group, technology adoption and market trends, regulatory healthcare compliance and the impact of relaxed policies. These manuscripts are neither reviews nor original reports of primary research. 
• MODELS for TRUST: Zero knowledge proofs and data privacy, Secure multiparty computation and privacy preserving technology, consensus algorithms and data provenance, transactional data sharing and integrity.  
• NEW BUSINESS MODELS: value based health economics, incentive models, cashless economy, internet of value, ecosystem structure and dynamics, scalability, sustainability, and disintermediation
• HIT: Electronic Health Records, interoperability, medical devices, clinical trials, provenance,  Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, sensors, smart  homes and health environments
• LEGAL, REGULATORY and ETHICS: health ploicy, regulation, governance, consumer protection, ethical considerations for new technology, health insurance, fraud, liability, indemnification
• EDUCATION: technology fundamentals, innovation management, managing digital transformation, workforce transformation

In addiion, BHTY 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.

Time Stamped Ledger of Record for Researchers 

BHTY is pleased to offer the first life science research portal for authors and global communities. The portal registers each original research article’s provenance on the blockchain for every author to create a permanent and immutable public record of their work on the blockchain for the scientific community.
 
The BHTY+ARTiFACTS portal provides custom dashboards so authors and research teams can:

1. Transact smart contracts on the blockchain to secure the provenance of their research files and receive citations in real time
2. Control access to their research materials
3. Synchronize with their ORCID ID’s and works and many other capabilities and features

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The Editors-in-Chief of Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) are Bill Buchanan, OBE, Professor, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University; Fellow of the BCS, and Dr.  John Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform

BHTY’s 37  member international Peer Review Board includes:

CANADA

Uli Broedl, MD, VP Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim

NETHERLANDS
Cees Hesp, Director mHealth Research Labs, PharmAccess Foundation, and Director, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), United Nations Foundation

SLOVENIA
Mate Beštek, BSc, National Institute of Public Health, Center for Healthcare Informatics, Republic of Slovenia; Faculty, Computer and Information Dept., University of Ljubljana

SWEDEN / GERMANY 
George Kolostoumpis, BSc, PhD, External Scientific Expert, European Centre for Disease Control at Stockholm; Technical Expert, EUREKA

UAE

Khaled Salah, PhD, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE

UK
Bill Buchanan, OBE, Professor, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University; Fellow, BCS and IET

USA
Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law (St. Louis, MO)

Anh L. Ngo, MD, MBA, Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine (Boston, MA)

Amanda Stanhaus, Health Management and Policy Ph.D. student, University of Michigan. Formerly, Strategist, J.P.Morgan’s Blockchain Quorum (Ann Arbor, MI)

Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi, Emerging Technologies & Innovation Leader, Deloitte

Debbie Bucci, Former Lead IT Architect in the US Department of Health and Human Services (Washington D.C.)

Dennis Porto MD, MPH, FAAD, is the Lewis Wendell Hackett award recipient, Harvard University (Boston, MA)

Elizabeth Breeden, DPh, MS, CPHIMS, Assoc Professor, Chair, Health Care Informatics, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Lipscomb University

Florence D. Hudson, Former IBM Vice President, Internet2 Senior Vice President, and Chief Innovation Officer (New York, NY)

Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Faculty, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA)

Jin Wei-Kocsis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn Science and Engineering Center, The University of Akron (Akron, OH)

Kevin A. Clauson, PharmD, Associate Professor, Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (Nashville, TN)

Mercury Fox, Director, CODATA-UA Center of Excellence in Data for Society, Data7 + iSchool, University of Arizona

Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Former FDA Chief Health Informatics Officer

Mike Jacobs, Technology Fellow and SVP of Engineering, Optum

Louis O. Jeansonne IV, MD, PharmD, Assistant Vice President for Medical Affairs, Ochsner Medical Center Baton

Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD, Director, Data Integration, Co-Chief, Health Information and Data Analytic Sciences, Assistant Professor of Population Health, Affiliate Faculty, Center for Health Communication, Dell Medical School  and  The University of Texas at Austin

Prasad Kothari, MS, Vice President - The Smart Cube Rouge (Baton Rouge, LA)

Jim Markwith, Founder, Markwith Law PS, Faculty and Mentor, Santa Clara University School of Law, Entrepreneurs' Law Clinic

Manouchehr (Mitch) Mokhtari, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)

Jim Nasr, ​CEO, Acoer

Eric Pisini, Global VP Blockchain, IBM Watson Health, USA

Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH,  Senior Vice President, Clinical Strategy and Quality, Enterprise Clinical Management at Humana

Tim Ken Mackey, MAS, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public Health, UC San Diego School of Medicine and Director of Healthcare Research and Policy, UC San Diego (San Diego, CA)

Tina Penman, AuD, Regional Research Administrator, US Department of Defense Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE), National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), VA Portland Health Care System (Portland, OR)

Tom Savel, MD, Director, Informatics Innovation Unit, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Atlanta, GA)

Vikram Dhillon,, Research Fellow, Institute of Simulation and Training at University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)

Wendy Charles, PhD, CIP, CCRP, CBP, Chief Scientific Officer, BurstIQ (Denver, Colorado)

Learn more about the current roster of Peer Review Board members, and their financial and conflict of interest disclosures here , or go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

BHTY continuously seeks experts of the highest caliber and passion for the field to expand and diversify the Peer Review Board.

To apply for joining BHTY’s Peer Review board, please send a note with your CV to the Editor at info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

BHTY’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.

BHTY’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.

Learn more about the Peer Review Board members, and their financial and conflict of interest disclosures here , or go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

To apply for joining BHTY’s Peer Review board, please send a note with your CV to the Editor at info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

The pursuit of trust through transparency and truth is a founding principle and pillar of BHTY. For example, BHTY 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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With over 140+ citations, and read in over 70+ countries, unlike any other journal in this market today, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) 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.

A First-In-Category international peer-review open-access online academic journal, BHTY provides the following benefits to authors:

IMMEDIATE BROAD EXPOSURE UPON PUBLICATION

• Worldwide reach to readers in over 70 countries
• International localized 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.
  For an example click here or go to https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=232988
• LinkedIn post that the article was published.
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• Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube posting as appropriate that the article was published.
  For an example click here or go to https://twitter.com/BHTYJournal/status/1074765173074866179
• Re-publication of high interest articles in other journals such as the Mid-East extending reach and awareness for author work beyond BHTY's audience
• Posting of a companion Author’s  video or podcast to introduce the article’s abstract and complementary information the author wishes to share with readers

COMPETITIVE MERIT EXPOSURE

• High Consequence Article I Interview with journal editors-in –chief for ground breaking research and discoveries
• Qualification for the annual "Editor's Choice Award," selected by the editor-in-chief, 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 considerationn and weigh determinants accordinly. 

GREAT EASE OF PUBLICATION

• Accepting submissions on an ongoing, continuous, no-deadline basis
• Rapid two-week peer-review turn around
• Establish credibility of the scholarly work as measured by .. the collaborative work of double blind peer review internationally 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 BHTY 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’ 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’ author-centric one-stop-shop publication aggregation, verification, and management platform

BHTY endeavors to adhere to a rapid turnaround of 14 days per review cycle.

To date, the average turnaround time for each cycle is 14 days.

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 BHTY have been published.

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Yes, only if the submission is accepted for publication: The Article Processing Charge (APC) is $850.00 USD and $1050.00 USD for Special Reports, which are typically lengthier, and $450.00 USD for students currently enrolled at an academic institution. 

There is NO CHARGE for BLOG submissions.

Authors who may not be able to afford paying the APC may apply for a waiver only AFTER the submission is accepted. It is based solely on the MERITS of the paper.

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BHTY is indexed in SciienceOpen, Unpaywall, Google Scholar and the Public Knowledge Project metadata harvester . 

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Launched in March 2018, BHTY does not have an Impact Factor yet. 

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BHTY’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), an international peer-review open-access journal dedicated to blockchain and converging technologies in healthcare.

Telehealth in Medicine Today (TMT), an international peer-review open-access journal dedicated to technology innovation for value-based patient-centered care across the care continuum.

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.

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.

Orvium.io, creator of a purpose-built open-source decentralized blockchain-based, AI-enabled framework for managing scholarly publications’ life cycles.

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 fo to https://standards.ieee.org/

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