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)

• Rejection 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  

1. Fast and user-friendly submission portal
2. Excellent customer service –calls and emails answered in detail within 24-48 hours
3. Qualify for the Editors Best Article Award amplifying work across media announced at the Annual ConV2X Symposium
4. High-quality rigorous peer review
5. High market and public media exposure to amplify research and results
6. Read across 120 countries worldwide, with 63 -75,000 impressions/mo as per Google Analytics
7. Accepted to PubMed, Scopus, EngineeringVillage, Proquest indexes and others
8. 100% OPEN ACCESS - there are No Paywalls or limits to article access for maximum exposure and reuse by authors
9. Video abstracts, Plain language, and Graphical summaries to amplify work
10. NEW Transparent Peer Review (TPR) option
 

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 here or 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.

Audience:   Viewership includes leadership from research, business, universities, consultants, entrepreneurs/startups, biopharma/device/pharmacy, government, policy, NGO, engineers, health information technologists, cybersecurity, auditors, computational engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, healthcare network users, public health, hospitals and innovation labs, and payor organizations  across the globe - and invites all those with an interest in the latest knowledge on blockchain technology and DLT to join the community.

Note: APC applies unless your university or organization has a Publish and Read Agreement on file.

Waivers will be granted UPON REQUEST to lower-middle income countries as per the World Bank (details here).