International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM) (ISSN: 2155-5621)

Description

The primary mission of the International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM) is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of privacy and health information management. The journal publishes original high quality peer-reviewed articles concerned with various aspects in the areas of privacy and health information management. The journal targets a broad audience ranging from computer scientists and engineers to healthcare professionals and researchers in social sciences.
The International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM) publishes three types of rigorous and high quality articles: research articles, research notes, and research reviews. Research articles are full papers presenting innovative findings that make substantial theoretical and empirical contributions to knowledge in the field by using various theoretical and methodological approaches. Research notes are novel, complete but concise high quality research articles; they may include exploratory studies, extensions of articles previously published in IJPHIM and summaries of doctoral theses in related areas. Research reviews are insightful and carefully crafted articles that conceptualize research areas, synthesize previous innovative findings, advance the understanding of the field, and identify and develop future research directions. Authors are welcome to submit manuscripts that qualify for any of these three categories.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
Advances in data formats and knowledge representation of healthcare data
Ambient assisted living and smart spaces
Artificial intelligence and pattern recognition
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Body sensor networks
Classifications/nomenclatures (e.g., SNOMED-CT, ICD-10, ICD-11, ICPC, etc.)
Country and disease-wise specialized systems for healthcare information management
Data collection from hospitals
Data encryption
Data masking and obfuscation
Data privacy
Data quality
Decision support systems
Development of necessary policies and legislation of health information management (information governance and health information management)
Development of necessary standards for data transmission, data quality, and data vocabularies
Dissemination of best practices in HIM (e.g., electronic signatures, CPOE, privacy impact assessments, risk assessment, and record retention, storage, and destruction)
Electronic health information and fully realized electronic record issues (e.g., constituting legal records, secondary uses of data, privacy and confidentiality of health data, necessary data and transmission standards, and coding standards)
Evaluation of security of individuals as the custodian of the health record
Expert systems
Future of health information management
Green computing
Hash algorithms for privacy
Healthcare data management issues
Healthcare informatics
Healthcare record management and dissemination systems
Identity management
Identity theft
Information disclosure
Internet of Things
Issues related to primary versus secondary uses of health data (e.g., data mining, data warehouses, disease surveillance, registry development, de-identification, and anonymization of health data)
Issues related to the consequences of sharing HIM across boundaries, nationally, and internationally
Ontologies
Mobile computing
Patient data management and confidentiality in lab tests
Pervasive computing
Policies for electronic record retention, storage, and destruction
Privacy and confidentiality of health data
Privacy and health information management in cloud computing
Procedures and protocols in labs, hospitals, and research institutes
Risk management
Role of HIM professionals (e.g., data stewardship/data custodians, privacy officers, and health information analysts)
Semantic web
Smart cards
Smart grids
Surveillance of record usage
Training and education for HIMs, HIs, and other e-health workers continuing education and professional development
Use of digital certificates
Use of emergency services using pervasive technology
Use of social simulation methods to evaluate healthcare and privacy policies
Use of statistical methods
Web 2.0
Web services for data sharing