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... Show More
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.
Mission & Scope:
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... Show More
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.
Coverage:
- 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 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
- Patient/patient’s-relative/volunteer user strategies in shared decision making with physicians and other healthcare users
- 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 privacy, anonymity and novel strategies to anonymize patient data
- User-driven learning and problem solving in disciplines other than healthcare
- User-driven online matching of evidence and other collective sense making techniques
This journal operates under the Hybrid Open Access model,
allowing the author to choose between traditional, subscription-based publishing, or Open Access publishing.
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Fair Use Policy
for sharing allowances conducive to Green Open Access.
Open Access Publishing:
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(CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of
the article. Others may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, without asking
prior permission from the publisher or author and so long as they credit the author for the original creation.
A one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of US $2,000 must be paid AFTER the manuscript has gone
through the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor(s)-in-Chief at his/her/their full discretion
has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. Learn
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