International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH)

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Description

The International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH) addresses a variety of issues that relate to the quality and reliability assurance of e-healthcare, patient safety, patient empowerment, and e-medicine. The journal publishes international cutting-edge research and best practices in the field of e-health and quality and reliability assurance. The International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH) encourages international debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of quality, patient safety, and e-health interaction.

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Mission

The mission of the International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH) is to facilitate a detailed analysis of the e-health and quality interaction. As e-health embodies new electronic technologies, web-based transactions and advanced networks, a fundamental rethinking of healthcare processes is necessary. In that aim, the International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH) seeks to reveal, understand, model, and implement appropriate reliability and quality interventions, leading to quality assurance and improvement in e-healthcare.

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Reviews and Testimonials

The transition from concepts of health care quality measurement to their global operationalization is echoed in numerous journals where the appropriateness of care and the efficiency of its production are of essential focus. While our understanding of quality is widespread, the challenges remain for the systematic and reliable measurement, analysis, and use of findings toward performance improvement.  The efficient production of services with desirable outcomes requires a multi-dimensional systems’ approach, and a demonstration of intended outcomes. The International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare provides an original and unique forum where knowledge from various disciplines is synthesized and shared for improving the appropriateness and safety of health care. Indeed, the Journal thoughtfully merges and intersects knowledge from clinical medicine, public health, economics, sociology and informatics addressing issues relevant to most healthcare professionals.  The vision of the Journal is timely, its multi-disciplinary approach most needed, and the scholarly content immediately amenable to applied research, practice and policy.

- Vahé A. Kazandjian , ARALEZ HEALTH LLC, and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Topics Covered

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Benchmarking and e-health
• Clinical Indicators and e-health
• Conceptual and historical approach of quality in e-health
• E-health knowledge management
• Ethics in e-health
• Healthcare teams and e-health
• Leadership in e-health
• Patient safety in e-health
• Public e-health informatics
• Quality and reliability aspects in evidence based e-medicine
• Quality and reliability assurance in mobile health and personalized health systems
• Quality and reliability assurance of main telemedicine applications
• Quality and reliability for consumer health informatics
• Quality and reliability in e-health grids
• Quality assurance in e-health
• Quality education in e-health
• Quality and information technology
• Reliability assurance in e-health

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Anastasia N. Kastania
Anastasia N. Kastania, Ph.D., received her B.Sc. in Mathematics and her Ph.D degree in Medical Informatics from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She works in the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece since 1987. Research productivity is summarized in various articles (monographs or in collaboration with other researchers) in international journals, international conferences proceedings, international book series and international books chapters. She has more than twenty years teaching experience in University programs and she is the writer of many didactic books. She also has ten years experience as Researcher in National and European Research Projects. Research interests are telemedicine and e-health, e-learning, bioinformatics, tele-epidemiology, mathematical modeling and statistics, web engineering, quality engineering and reliability engineering.

Anastasius Moumtzoglou
Anastasius Moumtzoglou, Ph.D., is an Executive Board Member of the European Society for Quality in HealthCare (ESQH) and President of the Hellenic Society for Quality & Safety in HealthCare (HSQSH). He holds B.A in Economics (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), MA in Health Services Management (National School of Public Health), MA in Macroeconomics (The University of Liverpool) and Ph.D. in Economics (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), He works for 'P. & A. Kyriakou' Children's Hospital and teaches the module of quality at the graduate and postgraduate level. He has written three books, which are the only ones in the Greek references. He has also served as a scientific coordinator and researcher in Greek and European research programs. In 2004, he was declared “Person of Quality in Healthcare”, with respect to Greece. His research interests include healthcare management, quality, knowledge management, pensions and the dualism of the labor market.

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Editorial Board

International Advisory Board
Susan B. Frampton, Planetree, USA
Alexander Horsch, Technische Universität München, Germany; University of Tromsø, Norway
Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece

Associate Editors
James G. Anderson, Purdue University, USA
Hege K. Andreassen, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine and Integrated Care, Norway
Olga Ferrer Roca, University of La Laguna, Spain
Athena Linos, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece
Claudia Pagliari, University of Edinburgh, UK
Gerald Schaefer, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Chris Seebregts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Junping Zhao, PLA General Hospital Beijing, China

Editorial Review Board
Ioannis Apostolakis, National School of Public Health, Greece
Stavros Archondakis, General Army Hospital, Greece
Asen Atanasov, MARC Institute, Bulgaria
George Athanasiou, University of Patras, Greece
Ahmad Taher Azar, Misr University for Science & Technology, Egypt
Paul D. Bartels, The Danish National Indicator Project, Denmark
Bridgette Bewick, University of Leeds, UK
George Bohoris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Ales Bourek, University Center for Healthcare Quality, Czech Republic
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Foad Dabiri, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Tracy Finch, Newcastle University, UK
Jai Ganesh, Sri Sathya Sai Information Technology Center, India
Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Prayas Kad, Capgemini, Australia
Solvejg Kristensen, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Elizabeth Krupinski, University of Arizona, USA
Basia Kutryba, European Society for Quality in Health Care, Poland
Panagiota Lazarou, University General Hospital  "Attikon", Greece
Susana Lorenzo, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon, Spain
Tammara Massey, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jasna Mesaric, Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Croatia
Jose Joaquin, Mira Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Christina Oikonomopoulou, Ministry of Competitiveness and Development, Greece
Christopher Pate, Webster University, USA
Andreas Pavlakis, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Anand Pillai, Dundee Medical School, UK
Charalampos Platis, National Center for Public Administration and Local Government, Greece
Elena Riza, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Emmanouil Rizos, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Jose Antonio Seoane, Universidade Da Coruna, Spain
Åsa Smedberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
David Somekh, European Society for Quality in Health Care, UK
Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Stelios Zimeras, University of the Aegean, Greece
Jana Zvárová, Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic