BMJ Health & Care Informatics

(BMJ HCI) is an open access, peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of informatics in healthcare.

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The essential scope of the journal is how informatics supports improvements in direct health and care service provision, but also incorporates public health strategies and interventions, implementation of learning health systems and national policy issues.

A core purpose of the journal is to bring together the academic and practitioner communities, so we invite professionals in health and care informatics who are unfamiliar with the conventions and processes of academic publishing to contact the editorial office for guidance on writing for publication.

BMJ Health & Care Informatics adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics. To read the journal's detailed guidelines please see our policies. Keep up with the latest journal announcements on Twitter and Facebook.

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Current Issue

Editor's Choice

Healthcare provider evaluation of machine learning-directed care: reactions to deployment on a randomised controlled study

10 February 2023

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IT risk management for medical devices in hospital IT networks: a catalogue of measures and indicators

1 February 2023

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Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-income countries

13 January 2023

Extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 model for predicting mHealth acceptance using diabetes as an example: a cross-sectional validation study

15 November 2022

Authors

BMJ Health & Care Informatics accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and protocols.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for the journal.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Spotlight

BMJ Health & Care Informatics Journal Club

The BMJ Health & Care Informatics Journal Club is a live webinar, hosted by Digital Health.
To join Dr Katie MacLure (BCS Health & Care Scotland) in discussion with authors of the latest BMJ HCI articles, simply register your interest and read the latest paper in advance.
Visit the website for information on upcoming webinars