Special Theme Issue
Real World Outcomes and Cost Efficiencies from Telehealth Implementation and Research

Building robust research repositories and study datasets must be amassed for health policy leaders, regulators, and economists to gauge the real world impact of virtual and digital health modalities of care.THMT is creating a special issue collection of short case reports, technical reports, pilot studies, and clinical or marketing research results to demonstrate the cost efficiencies of this growing field.

THMT invites multidisciplinary experts from business,consulting, hospital, health systems, not-for-profit, clinical and allied health professionals, scholars, graduate students, post docs, and researchers to develop and submit original short reports addressing cost, analysis, and efficiencies identified through real world telehealth implementations.

Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

• Telehealth utilization and downstream care
• Emergency visits and hospitalizations
• Hospital readmissions
• Modalities such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), live video, store-and-forward, and mobile health
• Accessibility to care and special populations
• Productivity for health providers and/or patients
• Culturally appropriate services
• Specialist care
• Substitution of in-person care
• Preventing more costly care
• No-show rates
• Transitional care management
• Care between patients, caregivers and clinicians
• Value-based payment models and incentivized prevention
• Chronic disease management

Note: Should an author require faster publication turn around, please submit your manuscript to the regular issue. The regular APC rates will apply. Deadline is March 1, 2023.

Submission Guidelines

Reports should present new, original results that are unpublished. Please prepare your manuscript as per THMT guidelines here.

Submissions for the theme issue should be a maximum of 2500 words, not including references.

To submit a manuscript to this THMT theme issue, please click here. Be sure you have first registered. Include your ORCID ID or obtain one here.  Click the selection “Special Issue” for your submission.

Your manuscript will undergo full peer-review, consistent with THMT criteria here.

APC

The theme issue Article Processing Charge (APC) is discounted and will be $450.00 USD Waivers are available as per the THMT Waiver Policy.

Journal Theme Issue Editors
Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO, KeyCare, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

Paul Barach, B.Sc. MD, MPH, Maj (ret.), Lecturer and Senior Advisor of Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, USA; Professor, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

Bryan T. Arkwright, MHA, Principal, Impact Advisors; Founder and Chief Research Officer, Cromford Health; Adjunct Faculty, Wake Forest University School of Law and Ohio University, College of Health Sciences and Professions, USA

Rebecca Love, Chief Clinical Officer, Intelycare and President of SONSIEL, USA

Matthew Sakumoto, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, USA