Telemedicine in Extreme Conditions - Overcoming Challenges in Disaster, War, Hostile, and Remote Environments

Call for Papers
In extreme instances, civilian and healthcare fabrics are disrupted, and infrastructure and connectivity are often compromised – precisely when the demand for healthcare services is at its highest. Digital health solutions and telemedicine can play a critical role in providing support and relief in these situations to bridge the gap between patients and providers, creating innovative approaches that go beyond standard practices.

In disaster situations, power outages and damaged communication networks can severely hinder telemedicine operations. Innovative solutions, such as satellite-based communication systems and portable care delivery kits can help overcome these challenges to ensure connectivity in even the most remote and hostile environments.

Despite the challenges of limited infrastructure and connectivity, innovative solutions and adaptations have enabled successful implementations in these environments. By leveraging advanced technologies and creative strategies, telemedicine can save lives, improve healthcare outcomes, and provide support and relief in the most challenging circumstances.

In light of the urgent needs for critical care in remote environments across the globe, Telehealth and Medicine Today has announced a theme issue for multidisciplinary audiences, including verified digital health experiences from patients.

Topics for Articles
Topics include but are not limited to those below from hospitals, clinics, maternity wards and other care facilities, armed forces, NGO deployments, frontline clinicians, medical professionals, and patients receiving digital health care solutions in hostile and/or life threatening environments.

• Specialty digital health areas such as tele-intensive care units, -orthopedics, -stroke, -neurology, -surgery, etc.
• Mental health, PTSD, acute stress, substance use
• Remote patient monitoring for chronic conditions
• Senior and home care intervention, recovery strategies, and outcomes
• Patient and provider relationships, and 2nd opinions
• Provider-to- provider experiences
• Communicating with emergency response teams, combat medics, and patients
• Rehabilitation
• Strategies and lessons for persons with disabilities
• Failed experiments
• National infrastructure, regulation, equipment, rural care access, and cost
• Partnerships for network systems sustainability
• Workforce and crisis models
• Low-income community strategies for success
• Knowledge management approach to identify and share best practices
• Availability, implementation, challenges and barriers
• New methods and techniques
• Information governance, data protection, and ethical considerations
• Digital health across countries and international communities
• Establishing information centers for disease surveillance
• Military digital health solutions and Defense medical services, usage and trends
   

Type of Articles

• Original research, case use, pilots, guidelines, technical reports, editorial discussions and opinions are invited from the frontlines, regulatory, policy, government, NGO, research institutions, and patients
• Original research: limit submission length to a maximum of 10 pages with references
• Editorials: limit submission length to a maximum of 1200 words. References should be included where possible.
• Follow Manuscript Preparation Guidelines at https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/manuscriptprep
• Use the Manuscript Template to aid development. Download it here.

Manuscript Preparation
For manuscript preparation details please click here. Download the THMT Manuscript Template at https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/7

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Waivers
THMT will waive the article processing charge (APC) fee for authors from lower-middle income countries as per the World Bank (click here for details). The APC will be waived for ALL failed and negative research papers. The current APC rate will apply for all other accepted submissions. There is no charge for editorials or blogs.

Deadline
Ongoing

Peer Review
Selection will be based on the THMT peer-review process.

THMT Editorial Board Reviewers
Editors-in-Chief: 
Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO, KeyCare and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Journal Specialty Focus: Primary Care, Physician Satisfaction and Process innovation

Amar Gupta, PhD, MIT Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA
Journal Specialty Focus: Technology, Policy and Regulation

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, USA
Journal Specialty Focus: Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Interoperability and Device Innovation

Editors

• Ahmed Shihab Albahri (A. S. Albahri), PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Information Technology and Communications (UOITC), Iraq
• Alon Dagan, MD, Associate Director of Emergency Medicine Research,  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
• Bryan T. Arkwright, MHA, Principal, Impact Advisors; Founder and Chief Research Officer, Cromford Health; Adjunct Faculty, Wake Forest University School of Law; Adjunct Faculty, Ohio University, College of Health Sciences and Professions, USA
• Jan Bruhans, PhD,  Associated Professor,  Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, and First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Jefferson Fernandes, MD, PhD, MBA, Vice President, Brazilian Association of Telemedicine and Telehealth, Brazil, and Director of Education, International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, Switzerland
• Paul Barach, B.Sc. MD, MPH, Maj (ret.), THMT Associate Editor for Social Entrepreneurship and Community Impact. Lecturer and Senior Advisor, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, USA; Professor, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
• Sergio Pillon, MD, eHealth Master Degree, Former National Coordinator of the Committee for Telemedicine Development, Italian Ministry of Health,  Italy
  Rebecca Love, Chief Clinical Officer, Intelycare and President-Emeritus of SONSIEL, USA
• Samer Ellahham, MD, Chief Quality Officer, Senior Cardiovascular Consultant, Cleveland Clinic, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City , UAE
• Zakiuddin Ahmed, CEO-Digital Care, Project Director, Riphah Institute of Healthcare Improvement & Safety, Riphah International University, Pakistan
   

Address inquiries to the Managing Editor, John Russo, PharmD, at [email protected] or [email protected]

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