Health Systems

Scope

Health Systems promotes the idea that all aspects of health and healthcare delivery can be viewed from a systems perspective. The belief of the journal is that health and healthcare systems are characterized by complexity and interconnectedness, where "everything affects everything else". The principal aims of Health Systems is to bring together critical health operations and IT research and commentary and to provide a forum that welcomes diverse viewpoints and research approaches. We encourage submissions that provide an interdisciplinary perspective and insights to benefit multiple disciplines. We focus on submissions that look at healthcare systems and publish research that explores health IT and operations research, areas that are underrepresented by research publications. Each area has a dedicated editor that understand the domain, and the international view from a systems perspective. We welcome submissions in the following health systems areas: • Consumer health informatics & mHealth • Healthcare design science • Human computer interaction in health systems • Telemedicine • Health IT economics • Clinical informatics • Data mining and data analytics in health care • Health IT quality and evaluation • Public health informatics • Technical architecture of health IT • Mathematical modelling • Operations management • Performance measurement, and decision and risk analysis • Simulation and logistics • Health services research • Health systems quality and evaluation • Knowledge management • Systems dynamics • Health disparities modelling