Unlike any other journal in the market today, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices. BHTY endeavors to utilize blockchain technology innovations for authors, peer reviewers & its global audience. The open access BHTY provides more legitimacy and artifacts for researchers and authors where original research is globally disseminated for an emerging market.

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 editorial team that applies innovative means and tools to rigorously vet and objectively evaluate content in order to demonstrate credible progress that multidisciplinary stakeholders require.

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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’s requirements, we recommend asking a native English-speaking colleague to review it prior to submission. There are also agencies that can help. We partner with Editage to offer a Language Editing Service. This includes a Premium Editing Service which ensures your manuscript meets BHTY’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 gold open access international 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 education and 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 Editorial Team determines 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 means there is no-deadline for submissions. Manuscripts are submitted and published on a rolling basis as they are accepted.

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

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An evidence based gold open access journal where global community stakeholders engaged in blockchain technology and DLT research and innovations in healthcare share research and perspectives to enhance the understanding and utilization of the techology in healthcare. 

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

Over 200,000+ total reader engagements since launch in March 2018 have been logged.

Article citations stand at 350+ 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 or archived issues. 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 Editorial Team and Editors-in-Chief determine what is published following rigorous vetting and objective, unbiased evaluation of submissions.

To date, manuscripts from over 200 authors spanning three continents including North America, Europe, and India 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. Amgen, 

HEALTHCARE PAYERS: Aetna, Independence Blue Cross

HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES (HIEs): HealtHIE Nevada

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

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

STARTUPS: Patientory, Izzy Care LLC and others included in a commercial success review article (see 2021 content here).

Author professional titles include:

ACADEMIC TITLES: Professor, Dean, 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, GOVERNANCE 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.

All editorial board members and peer reveiwers may be called upon to peer review manuscript submissions.

BHTY’s 40+ member international peer reviewers includes the following nations:

Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden,  Germany,  UAE, UK, Uganda  and USA

Learn more about the current roster of peer reviewers and their financial/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 in the field for purposes of expandsion, inclusion and diversify .

To become a BHTY peer reviewer, please send a note with your CV to the editor at info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

BHTY’s peer reviewers seek experts of the highest caliber and passion in the field and prefer 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 BHTY peer reviewers, and their financial/conflict of interest disclosures here , or go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/about/editorialTeam

To become a BHTY peer reviewer, please send an email 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 peer reviewers and staff to publish financial disclosure/conflict of interest disclosures. (https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/coi); and to comply with strict impartiality policy and professional conduct.

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With over 350+ 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 multidisciplinary stakeholders from the private and public sectors around the world.

A First-In-Category international peer-reviewed gold 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
• Direct mail community outreach 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.
  For an example click here or go to https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6480478844154368000
• 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
• 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.
• Optional payment of APC in digital currency is also possible. Authors should contact the publisher at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com

• BHTY now 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.

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 editors-in-chief 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 editors-in-chief may take that into consideration and weigh determinants accordinly. 

GREAT EASE OF PUBLICATION

• Accepting submissions on an ongoing, continuous, no-deadline basis
• Rapid 14-day peer-review PER REVIEW ROUND
• Establish credibility of the scholarly work as measured by the collaborative work of double blind peer review by 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
  • 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
  • Article Proof of Origin (APOO)

BHTY endeavors to adhere to a rapid turnaround:

• In 2020, BHTY manuscript Acceptance Rate was 42%.
• The number of Days to Accept a final manuscript in 2020 was 43.

The time to actual pubication of accepted subissions on the website 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 since journal launch in March of 2018.

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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. 

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

There is NO CHARGE for BLOG submissions.

BHTY has a 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.

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BHTY is indexed in SciienceOpen, Index Copernicus, Unpaywall, NEBIS, 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 - the purpose of which is to accelerate pragmatic innovation in health and wellness for a new global  health era.

In addition, PDH continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices required to forge trust, transparency, and truth.

Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY), an international peer-reviewed gold open-access journal dedicated to blockchain and converging technologies in healthcare.

Telehealth in Medicine Today (TMT), an international peer-reviewed gold 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.

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.  

Memberships and Affiliations

• DORA (pending)
• STM Association
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Wellcome.org (sharing COVID-19 research data)

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

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