International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH)

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Description

The International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) is a refereed, applied research journal designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of clinical problem solving in healthcare. The term "user" includes health professionals as well as patients and anyone who uses the web with a user name. These "users" generate an information flow that "drives" the system's workflow (hence the choice of the term "driven"). "User-driven healthcare" aims at improved healthcare through clinical problem solving utilizing concerted experiential learning in conversations between multiple users and stakeholders, primarily patients, health professionals, and other actors in a care giving collaborative network across a Web interface. The journal serves as a valuable academic platform for all these stakeholders to document and share their learning.

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Mission

The 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.

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Topics Covered

Topics 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/healthcare 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 healthcare

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

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Rakesh Biswas
Rakesh Biswas passed his MBBS from Kolkata and obtained his MD in internal medicine through a structured residency program from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He has subsequently taught and practiced medicine as assistant, associate and full professor in centers of academic excellence in Nepal, India and Malaysia. He has considerable expertise in clinical problem solving and has published his experiences extensively in academic journals and books. He is presently a regional editor for Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. He is a reviewer for the research evaluation panel of National Digital Research Centre, Ireland and academic co-investigator in their newly funded program of research on health informatics solutions to chronic disease challenges. His interests include clinical problem solving applied to patient centered health care and health education.

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Editorial Board

Associate Editors
Shivika Chandra, Manipal University, India
Denis English, University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA
Jane Fitzpatrick, University of the West of England, UK
Jo Kirpatrick, Open University, UK
Anita Kotwani, University of Delhi, India
Carmel Martin, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, CAL2CAL Institute, India
Amy Price, University of Miami, USA
Susan D. Ross, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Jimmy Shad, People's College of Medical Sciences, India
Sabyasachi Sircar, University College of Medical Sciences, India
Donald E. Stanley, Maine Medical Center, USA
Joachim Sturmberg, Monash and Newcastle University, Australia
Joan Young, Independent Researcher, USA

International Editorial Review Board
I. Elaine Allen, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, USA
Akshay Anand, PGIMER, India
Shaifali Bansal, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ruchi Dass, mHealth Evangelist, India
Anirban Chaudhuri, Consultant, India
Ronan Conroy, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Sovan Dey, La Trobe University, Australia
Binod Dhakal, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Tabriz University of Medical Science and Education, Iran
Ashish Goel, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Daz Greenop, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Sushil Jindal, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Ankur Joshi, National TB Control Program, India
Anil Kapoor, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Edward Kim, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Richard Lehman, Oxford University, UK
Arjun Maitra, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Andrew Miles, Imperial College London, UK
Jyoti Modi, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Kamalika Mukherji, Hertfordshire NHS Foundation, UK
Vincent O'Brien, University of Cumbria, UK
Brendan O'Shea, Trinity College, Ireland
Chris Peterson, La Trobe University, Australia
Santosh Sapkota, Ohio University, USA
Shruti Sarkar, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
David Schaefer, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA
Kevin Smith, National Digital Research Centre, Ireland
Prakash Thapaliya, Mayo Clinic, USA
Vijay Thawani, Government Medical College, India
Stefan Topolski, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, USA
Handan Vicdan, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Linda Welsh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rupert Whitaker, Tuke Institute, UK