Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Information Systems for Public Health is an open-access journal publishing manuscripts related to health information systems, such as:

Governance and Leadership

  • Geographic Information Systems for Health Performance Monitoring
  • Disease surveillance system
  • Health Information Dashboard
  • National strategy of health information systems
  • Health information management
  • Adoption and assimilation of information technology in healthcare services and organizations.
  • Electronic data security

 Health Care Delivery

  • IT innovations in health care services
  • Standardization of electronic health records
  • Clinical information systems and clinical decision support systems (quality of care and patient safety)
  • Telemedicine
  • Nursing information systems
  • Radiology information systems
  • Laboratory information systems

 Human Resource Development, Innovation, and Research

  • Competencies for information systems education and health informatics
  • Software and hardware development inthe healthcare sector
  • Integration and interoperability of health information systems
  • Knowledge discovery and data mining

 Health Financing

  • Health insurance information systems

Medical supplies and vaccines

  • Supply chain management systems
  • Pharmacy information systems
mHealth
  • m-Health for personal health monitoring and consumer health
  • m-Health for health care services and health promotion
  • m-Health for public health surveillance
Big Data and Data Science for Health
  • Big data analytics for health systems strengthening and public health
  • Developing and implementing Artificial Intelligence for health

Below is the type of manuscript that will be published:

  • Original research
  • Systematic review
  • Study protocol
  • Technical advance article
  • Prototype
  • Case report

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Initial review will be carried by editorial staff for all submitted manuscripts. Those manuscripts that did not meet JISPH criteria will be rejected without external review. Potential manuscripts will be sent to blind peer reviews. Editors will make decision based on reviewer's recommendation from among several possibilities: accepted, require minor revision, require major revision, or rejected.

The Editor-in-Chief of JISPH has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

 

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Information Systems for Public Health published three issues a year in April, August, and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Journal Description

Journal of Information Systems for Public Health (JISPH) is an open-access journal using the Open Journal System (OJS). Initiated by Health Information Management System (SIMKES), Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada. 

This journal is intended as a communication medium for those who are interested in information systems and public health informatics, such as researchers, academics, students, health office practitioners, the Ministry of Health, or healthcare practitioners.

JISPH already has ISSN, both printed 2089-2683 and an electronic version 2089-2675. JISPH is published three times a year in April, August, and December. The journal will publish manuscripts in the form of a research article, study protocol, technical advance article, software article, or case report. All submitted manuscripts will go through the double-blind peer review and editorial review before being granted acceptance for publication.