| The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage and the guidelines for submission to IJUDH.
MissionThe primary objective of the International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) is to provide a global forum for researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice of user-driven learning in healthcare and other disciplines. The emphasis here is on learning through clinical problem solving. The secondary objective of this journal is to develop a comprehensive framework of user-driven healthcare by taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding its implications on the present healthcare scenario.
CoverageTopics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: • Asynchronous computer mediated communication in healthcare to generate persistent clinical encounters• Bridging the gap between what we know and what is knowable in clinical practice • Case studies in clinical problem solving• Clinical Problem Solving perspectives from multiple stakeholders• Degrees and forms of participation in user-driven healthcare• Descriptive statistics with a purpose—how statistics shape society's view of itself.• Dynamics of social construction and performance of illness through user-driven healthcare practices • Electronic health records and online portfolio based learning in healthcare• Evolving pathologies and dealings with in the interface between industry, commercial branding and users• Human computer interaction and semantic web technologies in user-driven health • Illness journey narratives /health care autoethnographies around normal and altered physiologic states• Interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence • Medical cognition and decision making theory• Online user-driven statistical data collection and interpretations• Participatory action research as a bottom up strategy to problem solving and achieving change in healthcare • Patient and health professional user-driven ‘narrative electronic health records’• Patient and health professional users’ coping strategies (created in light of user-driven content) for life changing diseases • Patient and health professional users’ creativity in clinical problem solving in healthcare • Patient/patient’s-relative/volunteer user strategies in shared decision making with physicians and other healthcare users • Patient users dealing with stigmatization attached to certain diseases and health behavior • Patient users’ health strategies in a growing interface between corporate (e.g., pharmaceutical) interests, public health promotion and themselves • Searching for evidence and soul searching in User-Driven Health Care• Social, ethical and political context of health and illness and analysis of pertinent health policy• User-driven learning and problem solving in disciplines other than healthcare • User-driven online matching of evidence and other collective sense making techniques• User privacy, anonymity and novel strategies to anonymize patient data
SubmissionProspective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to rakesh7biswas@gmail.com.
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Rakesh Biswas
Editor-in-Chief
Email: rakesh7biswas@gmail.com
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