International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM)

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

International Advisory Board
Roberta B. Ness, The University of Texas, USA
    
Associate Editors        
Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal, Canada
Jose Bravo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy
S. Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA
Navonil Mustafee, University of Exeter Business School, UK
Shane Reti, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, USA
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, George Mason University, USA
Chia-Wen Tsai, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

International Editorial Review Board
Mohd Anwar, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Aldar Chun-fai Chan, Institute for Infocomm Research - A*STAR, Singapore
Syin Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shahid Chohan, ISCB-RSG-Pakistan, Pakistan
Cheng-Kang Chu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Sébastien Gambs, Université de Rennes 1 - INRIA, France
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK
Yasaman Khodadadegan, Arizona State University, USA
Hyoungshick Kim, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chunming Liu, T-Mobile, USA
Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig, Germany
Xi Long, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Rongxing Lu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ronny Mans, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hyun-A Park, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea
Enrique M. Perez, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Lina F. Soualmia, Rouen University, France
Maria Vargas-Vera, King's College, UK