期刊名称：JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Healthcare Engineering
editor-in-chief: Ming Chyu, PhD, PE
published quarterly from 2010 • ISSN 2040 2295 • 2014 journal prices/format options
The Journal of Healthcare Engineering is now indexed and abstracted in Thomson Reuter's Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch), MEDLINE and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
The Journal of Healthcare Engineering is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing fundamental and applied research on all aspects of engineering involved in healthcare delivery processes and systems. It provides a vehicle for the exchange of advanced knowledge, emerging technologies and innovative ideas among healthcare engineering researchers, engineers, managers and consultants around the world. The journal encompasses biomedical engineering (devices, equipment, procedures, software), healthcare information technology, distance healthcare, healthcare facilities and infrastructure, healthcare environment management, improvement of healthcare delivery systems, healthcare safety, elderly care, public health and epidemiology, healthcare policy and social issues. Authors are encouraged to submit papers based on analytical, computational, experimental and clinical research, state of the art reviews, conceptual and theoretical developments and designs.
List of topics:
• Biomedical engineering
• Computer-aided medical engineering
• Medical robotics
• Clinical decision support, computer aided diagnosis
• Medical/disease modeling
• Biomechanics
• Biomaterials
• Rehabilitation engineering
• Drug delivery
• Distance healthcare, healthcare telecommunication, telemedicine, teleradiology
• eHealth network
• Digital hospital
• Electronic health record
• Internet virtual hospital
• Home healthcare
• Healthcare information operating systems
• Healthcare database management systems
• Healthcare software management
• Web-based healthcare software systems
• Healthcare facilities and infrastructure
• Healthcare energy systems engineering
• Innovative operating room and patient room design
• Healthcare support service engineering
• Ergonomics and design, environmental ergonomics
• Healthcare environmental engineering, clinical environmental management
• Infection control engineering
• Healthcare waste management
• Improvement of healthcare delivery system (efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, quality, economics, innovation)
• Design and management of healthcare organization
• Healthcare operational measurement, modeling, and simulation
• Integrated healthcare delivery systems
• Healthcare safety, security, reliability, and risk management
• Emergency response engineering
• Disaster management
• Engineering issues in public health and epidemiology
• Engineering and aging (elderly patient service, adaptive equipment, assistive technology)
• Healthcare engineering for long-term care
• Engineering to address health disparities
• Engineering issues in healthcare public policy, insurance, and finance
• Healthcare engineering to address social responsibility and ethics
• Healthcare engineering education
Instructions to Authors
authors' instructions
submission of papers
Manuscripts should be submitted to the editor-in-chief. Manuscript is received with the understanding that the work has not been published previously, that it is not being considered for publication simultaneously elsewhere, and that the submission has been approved by all authors. Submission and acceptance of a paper implies the transfer of copyright to Multi-Science. All materials published in this journal may not be reproduced without the written permission of Multi-Science.
ethics guidelines
The Journal of Healthcare Engineering endorses and adopts the publication ethics guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). All potential conflicts of interest related to commitments of authors, editors, journal staff, and reviewers must be disclosed. Authors are required to provide information on all financial and personal relationships that might bias their work by completing ICMJE's Conflict-of-Interest Form. For all manuscripts reporting human or animal data, statements concerning formal review and approval or waiver by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee should be included in the Methods section. In addition, statements concerning informed consent are required for all human studies.
manuscript preparation
The manuscript must be written in English and should not, normally, exceed 6,000 words. The manuscript should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in 'Word' (.doc) file plus a PDF file. Please do not encode or compress text unless necessary. Avoid unnecessarily large files.
The metric system is to be used throughout and if it is necessary to quote other units, they should be added in parentheses.
The manuscript is expected to be written in correct and easily readable English. Authors who are not proficient in English are advised to seek help in editing their manuscripts before submission. Both English and American spellings are acceptable, but each paper is expected to follow one style consistently.
running order
Title: in concise form, with wording helping automatic searches, but no superfluous words.
Authors' names: the full names and academic degrees of all authors, with the corresponding author specified.
Authors' affiliations: e-mail addresses for all authors; postal address and e-mail address for the corresponding author.
ABSTRACT: less than 150 words written as a 'free standing' paragraph and containing key objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
KEYWORDS: 4 or 5 keywords with 1 to 3 words each.
The text of a research article is usually divided into the following sections (CAPITALIZED MAJOR HEADINGS, Capitalized First Letters of Each Word in Subheadings, Sub-subheadings, etc., with all headings numbered):
1. INTRODUCTION
2. METHODS
3. RESULTS
4. DISCUSSION
5. CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
Other types of articles, such as case reports, reviews, designs, and editorials, may be formatted differently.
illustrations
Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been cited in the text. Use only high quality, clearly reproducible, computer-generated/processed illustrations. They should be embedded in the main manuscript file, not provided at the end of the manuscript or as separate files. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend. Submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce any previously published figures.
tables
Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Explanatory matter should be placed in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain all nonstandard abbreviations in footnotes, and use the following symbols, in sequence: *,�,‡,§,||,¶,**,��,‡‡. Be sure that each table is cited in the text.
equations
Equations should be numbered sequentially in parentheses (..) to the right margin. Within the text, an equation is referred to as ‘eqn (..)’, or equations as ‘eqns ( .. - ..)’.
references
References to published work should be numbered sequentially in the order of citation. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in brackets. A reference list in numerical order should be given at the end of the paper. Personal communications and unpublished observations do not constitute references. For an article in a journal, the entry in the reference list must contain the following details:
Name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s). (Do not use "et al." - names of all authors must be included.) Title of article. Title of journal (italicized), year of publication; volume number (followed by the issue number in parentheses, if known): initial and final page numbers of the article.
The entry in the reference list for a book must contain the following details:
Name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s). Title of book (underlined), edition (unless first edition), publisher, place of publication, year of publication, initial and final page numbers of the part referred to, if applicable.
In the case of an edited book or conference proceedings, the name(s) and initial(s) of the editor(s) should be followed by the abbreviation ed(s). The entry in the reference list for an article in an edited book or conference proceedings must contain the following details:
Name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s). Title of article, in: name(s) and initial(s) of the editor(s) followed by the abbreviation ed(s). Title of book (underlined) or proceedings (italicized), publisher, place of publication, year of publication, initial and final page numbers of the article.
The entry in the reference list for a dissertation/thesis must contain the following details:
Name and initial(s) of the author. Title of thesis (underlined), degree awarded, University, year of award, initial and final page numbers of the part referred to, if applicable.
Examples:
[1] Silva MR, Yuan ZJ, Kim JH, Wang ZG, Hoyos M, Pan YT, Gouldstone A. Spherical indentation of lungs: experiments, modeling and sub-surface imaging. Journal of Materials Research. 2009, 24(3):1156-1166.
[2] Frisch P, Miodownik S, Booth P, Carragee P, Dowling M, Patient centric identification and association. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009, 1:1722-5.
[3] Bourbon JR. Pulmonary Surfactant - Biochemical, Functional, Regulatory, and Clinical Concepts, 2nd ed., CRC Press, New York, 1991.
[4] Cao H, Eshelman LJ, Nielsen L, Gross BD, Saeed M, Frassica JJ. Hemodynamic instability prediction through continuous multiparameter monitoring in ICU, in: Ming Chyu (ed). Advances in Critical Care Engineering, Multi-Science Publishing Company, UK, 2011, 151-177.
[5] Tanon AA. Patient safety in emergency departments: Defining the concept. PhD dissertation, University of Montreal, 2010.
[6] Health Level Seven International. HL7 Implementation Guide: CDA Release 2 - Continuity of Care Document (CCD). 2007. http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/cda.cfm. Accessed May 5, 2011.
manuscript review
All submitted manuscripts are first reviewed and evaluated by a JHE editor according to the following criteria:
• Originality of work (clear contributions beyond the most recent papers on the topic based on an extensive literature review)
• Healthcare relevance
• Engineering/scientific relevance
• Compatibility with journal’s aims and scope
• Importance of the work (beneficial impact on healthcare)
• Organization of the work
• Clarity in writing, tables, graphs, and illustrations
• Completeness of literature survey (inclusion of most recent references)
• Clear statement of objectives/purposes
• Soundness of methods
• Clear and systematic presentation of results
• Completeness of discussion and conclusion.
Only manuscripts with sufficient priority for publication can enter the process of double-blind (both authors and reviewers kept anonymous) external peer review by typically 5 qualified experts of our selection from authors of the cited references and well-recognized researchers in the area. The Journal of Healthcare Engineering endorses and adopts the ethical guidelines of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) concerning privacy and confidentiality for authors and reviewers. The turnaround time varies from one to several months depending on the quality of the manuscript and the number of review/revision cycles before acceptance. Accepted manuscripts are then further reviewed and edited by the JHE Editorial Office before forwarding to the publisher.
off-prints
Revised policy - click here to view
Editorial Board
Journal of Healthcare Engineering editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Ming Chyu, PhD, PE
Founding Coordinator, Healthcare Engineering Graduate Program; Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine; Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Lubbock, Texas 79409-1021, USA. Tel: (806) 742-3563 Ext 230. E-mail: m.chyu@ttu.edu
Associate Editors
Prof. Hojjat Adeli, PhD, Abba G. Lichtenstein Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Neural Systems, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Prof. Jing Bai, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Clark C. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of Surgical Oncology, Director of Stereotactic and Radiosurgery, Director of Neurosurgery Clerkship, Director of Medical Education, Division of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Prof. Heng-Shuen Chen, Director, Medical Informatics Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. P. John Clarkson, Ph.D.,
Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Prof. Claudio Cobelli, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
Charles R. Doarn, MBA, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicene, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Prof. Amit Gefen, Ph.D., Director, Musculoskeletal Biomechanical Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Ash M. Genaidy, President, WorldTek Inc., Sycamore Township, Ohio, USA
Prof. Andreas H. Hielscher, Ph.D., Director, Biophotonics & Optical Radiology Laboratory; Director, Small Animal Imaging Shared Resource, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Depts. Biomedical Engineering & Radiology; Columbia University, New York, USA; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger, Head of the Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Dr. Roberto Hornero, Head of the Biomedical Engineering Group, E.T.S. Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Dr. J.S. Katsanis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Eva K. Lee, Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Health Organization Transformation; Co-Director, Biomedical Informatics Program, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Winship Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Prof. Feng-Huei Lin, Director, Division of Medical Engineering, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan; Professor, Institute of Biomed Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Editor-in-chief, Biomedical Engineering-Application, Basis & Communication (SCI)
Prof. Pradeep Ray, School of Information Systems Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Robert Riener, Head of the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, and University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Jiann-Shing Shieh, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto, Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan
Prof. Toshiyo Tamura, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Prof. Martin Yarmush, MD, PhD, Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Prof. Jiajie Zhang, Doris L. Ross Professor, Associate Dean for Research School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Editorial Board
Prof. Ewart R. Carson, Centre for Health Informatics, City University, London, United Kingdom
Prof. Fok-Ching Chong, Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. Wan-Young Chung, Division of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea
Prof. Dr.-Ing Rüdiger Dillmann, Chairman, Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Prof. Manuel Doblaré, Scientific Director of the Networking Centre for Biomedical Research on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Prof. Jesus Favela, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Mexico
Dr. Salih Günes, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
Prof. Susan C. Hagness, Philip D. Reed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Prof. Neville Hogan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director, Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Prof. Ben-Tzion Karsh, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Prof. Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Department of Radiology & Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Prof. Gladius Lewis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Prof. Derek A Linkens, Emeritus Professor, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Prof. Nigel H. Lovell, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Prof. Henning Müller, Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Seong K. Mun, Institute of Advanced Study, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Prof. E.Y. K. Ng, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Prof. Keith D. Paulsen, Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology, Director, Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center, Hannover, New Hampshire, USA
Prof. Karl Rohr, Head of the Biomedical Computer Vision Group, Department of Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Georgios Sakas, Head of Cognitive Computing & Medical Imaging Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Mohamad A. Sawan, Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Prof. Mingui Sun, Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience, Departments of Neurosurgery, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Ioannis G. Tollis, Head of Biomedical Informatics Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Crete, Greece
Prof. Chan-Hyun Youn, Head of Information and Communications Engineering; Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering; Head, Lab for Advanced Network and System Architecture, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
Prof. Yuan-Ting Zhang, Head, Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Director, Key Lab for Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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