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Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research

BMC Health Services Research is an open access peer reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research, with a special focus on digital health, governance, health policy, health system quality and safety, healthcare delivery and access to healthcare, healthcare financing and economics, implementing reform, and the health workforce.

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Subject Health Care Sciences & Services, Medical Informatics
Impact Factor 3.7
Quartile Q1
Open Access Type Open
ISSN 2509-4971
eISSN 2509-498X
Invitation Only No
Cost Range Article-processing charges apply; members of Health Systems Global can receive a 20% discount on the article-processing charges.

Submission Instructions

Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research accepts the following article types. Click on an article type to view submission instructions.

Research Article

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. The cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, and, if applicable, name the special issue.
Abstract The abstract is required only insofar as clinical trial reports must include trial registration details as the last line of the abstract. For clinical trials, the last line of the abstract must give the trial registration number and registration date, and if retrospectively registered must also state 'retrospectively registered'.
Manuscript The manuscript must include an Availability of Data and Materials section, a Competing Interests section, documentation of any large language model use in the Methods or suitable alternative section, and for manuscripts describing previously unreported software or custom code, access details and repository links in the Availability of Data and Materials section.
References References may include only published, in-press, or publicly available articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must be excluded from the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and URLs must be cited as numbered references with full site title, URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Figure titles and legends must be provided in the main manuscript while figures are uploaded separately, tables under one page may be placed within the manuscript, and longer tables may be placed at the end of the document with callouts in the text. Multi-panel figures must be submitted as a single composite file, figure keys must be incorporated into the graphic rather than the legend, and tables must be created using the word processor's table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheet files.
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Review

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. The cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published in the journal, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved submission, and confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere.
Abstract Abstract requirements are not specified.
Manuscript The manuscript must include an Availability of Data and Materials section and a Competing Interests section, and any use of a large language model must be documented in the Methods section or another suitable part of the manuscript if no Methods section is available.
References Only published articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts that are published, in press, or publicly available as e-prints or preprints may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must not appear in the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and web links must be numbered and included in the reference list with full site title, URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript and longer tables may be placed at the end of the document, while figure titles and legends must be provided in the main manuscript rather than in the graphic files. Previously published figures and tables may be included in this non-research article if permission has been obtained where applicable and the original article is cited, and documentary evidence of permission must be available to the editor on request.
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Systematic Review

Cover Letter A cover letter must be provided. The cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published in the journal, address any journal policy issues, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, confirm the content is not published or under consideration elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required if a manuscript abstract is included, and registered systematic reviews must place the registration number as the last line of the abstract.
Manuscript Systematic reviews should include in the Methods section a link to an additional file that reproduces all details of the search strategy. If the systematic review is registered, the registration number should appear as the last line of the abstract, and any use of a large language model must be documented in the Methods section or another suitable part of the manuscript if no Methods section is available.
References Only published or in-press articles, clinical trial registration records, and publicly available abstracts or e-prints/preprints may be cited, unpublished abstracts/data and personal communications must be excluded from the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and URLs must be cited as numbered references with full site title, full URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, longer tables may be placed at the end of the text file, and figure titles and legends must appear in the main manuscript while figures are uploaded separately in cited order. Multi-panel figures must be submitted as a single composite file, figure keys must be incorporated into the graphic rather than the legend, and tables must be created using the word processor table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheet files.
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Recent Publications

Swarm Learning And Clinical Data: Evaluating The Benefit of a New Node For The Whole Network

Matteo Mantovani, Simone Scaglia, Riccardo Scheda, Carlo Combi, Stefano Diciotti

10.1007/s41666-026-00255-7
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The Impact of Bias Mitigation on Fairness and Accuracy in Automated Skin Lesion Classification

Matheus B. Rocha, Renato A. Krohling

10.1007/s41666-026-00252-w
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PPIE-Informed User-Centred Development and Early Usability Evaluation of a Digital Patient Portal to Support Stroke Survivors’ Self-Management

Zhiqiang Huo, Timothy Neate, David Wyatt, Sophie Rowland-Coomber, Fara Hamidi, Martin Chapman, Yanzhong Wang, Iain J. Marshall, Charles D. A. Wolfe, Vasa Curcin

10.1007/s41666-026-00253-9
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Evaluating RAG Configurations for Clinical Information Extraction from EHR Notes: Aged Care Case Study

Dinithi Vithanage, Quang Vinh Duong, Chao Deng, Rajendra Acharya, Zhanzhong Gu, Ting Song, Ping Yu

10.1007/s41666-026-00254-8
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Toward Fairness in Machine Learning Models for Predicting Treatment Retention and Premature Discontinuation in Medication for Opioid Use Disorder

Tongnian Wang, Carolina Vivas-Valencia, Cici Bauer, Yanmin Gong, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Yuanxiong Guo

10.1007/s41666-026-00251-x
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Is a cover letter required?

A cover letter is required and should explain why the manuscript should be published in BMC Health Services Research, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm that all authors approved the submission, confirm that the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable. Authors may also suggest preferred or non-preferred peer reviewers in the cover letter.

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What are the publication costs?

Article-processing charges apply; members of Health Systems Global can receive a 20% discount on the article-processing charges.

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Research Topics

Machine Learning in Healthcare Topic Modeling Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Electronic Health Records Systems Digital Mental Health Interventions COVID-19 diagnosis using AI COVID-19 epidemiological studies Natural Language Processing Techniques Mental Health Research Topics AI in cancer detection ECG Monitoring and Analysis Mobile Health and mHealth Applications Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Data-Driven Disease Surveillance Statistical Methods and Inference Chronic Disease Management Strategies Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Misinformation and Its Impacts Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Mental Health via Writing

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