BHTY 2023 Call for Manuscripts

BHTY is delighted to announce the new 2023 Call for Manuscripts, focused on blockchain for healthcare and data science. BHTY editors seek high quality and novel research, including failed experiments, to share with a global ecosystem. Visit the editorial board here.

Target Participants

BHTY invites scholars, graduate students, post docs, researchers, professors and market experts to develop and submit a manuscript addressing the opportunities, challenges, and real world case use in healthcare, which may be addressed by leveraging data science tools and techniques, and blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT).

Submitted manuscripts are expected to provide new conceptual, theoretical, and practical insights based on empirical data emerging from recent market or research activities. Use cases from demonstrably successful existing distributed ledger communities across a range of sectors are also welcome, as the learnings may be applicable in healthcare scenarios today or in the future.

Research Topics

Manuscripts may focus on, but are not limited to, the leverage of data, blockchain or digital ledger technology for healthcare, data science tools and techniques, and failed experiments including the following topics:

Precision medicine
Data sharing to inform public health
Security infrastructure requirements of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) for healthcare
Quadruple Helix Innovation - encompassing science, policy, industry and society
Frameworks, methods and tools to develop and align blockchain/DLT-based projects for multiple parties with Peer-to-Peer (P2P) capabilities
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and varieties of consensus-oriented blockchain-based associations
Cybersecurity of distributed ledger communities, including permissioned, permissionless, and hybrid permissions, as well as exchange and non-exchange cases
Aligning multiple stakeholders and consortium members in a distributed ledger-based community with shared ecosystem scaling objectives
Specific use cases may include:
Patient health records
Human and social aspects
Health systems interoperability
Patient and device identity management
Legal and policy challenges
Digital tokens and incentives
Medical payments and billing
Data security, privacy, anonymity
Healthcare operations
Data provenance
Fraud detection and prevention
Decentralized trust management
Pharmaceutical supply chain
Population health use cases
Social determinants of health
Clinical trials and clinical research
Health equity and disparities
Genomic and imaging data
COVID-19 pandemic applications
Facilitation of intervention and implementation strategies
Vaccination passports
Big data management in health
Improved health, prevention, diagnosis and treatment
Journal statistics (2022)

Reject Rate 56%
Days to First Editorial Decision 23
Days to Accept 63
Acceptance Rate 25%
Average days to publication 73

Note: BHTY maintains high editorial review standards reflected by acceptance in leading indexes. Author revisions add days to turnaround, acceptance, and publication timeframes. Journal staff is happy to streamline papers for authors requiring fast turnaround. There is no extra charge.

Advantages of publishing in Blockchain in Healthcare Today

Accepted to PubMed, Scopus, Science Open, Google Scholar, EngineeringVillage, Proquest, and others
Excellent customer service –calls and emails answered in detail within 24-48 hours
Qualify for the Editors Best Article Award amplifying work across media announced at the Annual ConV2X Symposium
High-quality rigorous peer review
High market and public media exposure to amplify research and results
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100% OPEN ACCESS - there are No Paywalls or limits to article access for maximum exposure and reuse by authors
Video abstracts, Plain language, and Graphical summaries to amplify work
NEW Transparent Peer Review (TPR) option
Fast and user-friendly submission portal

How to Participate

Submission Portal
Authors must follow guidelines published on the Blockchain and Healthcare Today (BHTY) Submission Portal.

For BHTY Manuscript Preparation details please click go to https://blockchainhealthcaretoday.com/index.php/journal/authors-submission
Use the original research article below to model your manuscript:

Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Informed Consent Process and Patient Engagement in a Clinical Trial Pilot, Baldwin C. Mak, PhD, et al, https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v4.182
BHTY is published on a no-deadline continuous basis to reflect a rapid, evolving field.

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