Coverage
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
Asynchronous computer mediated communication in healthcare to generate persistent clinical encounters
Bridging the gap between what we know and what is knowable in clinical practice
Case studies in clinical problem solving
Clinical Problem Solving perspectives from multiple stakeholders
Degrees and forms of participation in user-driven healthcare
Descriptive statistics with a purpose—how statistics shape society's view of itself.
Dynamics of social construction and performance of illness through user-driven healthcare practices
Electronic health records and online portfolio based learning in healthcare
Evolving pathologies and dealings with in the interface between industry, commercial branding and users
Human computer interaction and semantic web technologies in user-driven health
Illness journey narratives/healthcare autoethnographies around normal and altered physiologic states
Interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence
Medical cognition and decision making theory
Online user-driven statistical data collection and interpretations
Participatory action research as a bottom up strategy to problem solving and achieving change in healthcare
Patient and health professional user-driven ‘narrative electronic health records’
Patient and health professional users’ coping strategies (created in light of user-driven content) for life changing diseases
Patient and health professional users’ creativity in clinical problem solving in healthcare
Patient/patient’s-relative/volunteer user strategies in shared decision making with physicians and other healthcare users
Patient users dealing with stigmatization attached to certain diseases and health behavior
Patient users’ health strategies in a growing interface between corporate (e.g., pharmaceutical) interests, public health promotion and themselves
Searching for evidence and soul searching in user-driven healthcare
Social, ethical and political context of health and illness and analysis of pertinent health policy
User-driven learning and problem solving in disciplines other than healthcare
User-driven online matching of evidence and other collective sense making techniques
User privacy, anonymity and novel strategies to anonymize patient data
Editorial Review Board
Associate Editors
Shivika Chandra, Manipal University, India
Denis English, University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA
Jane Fitzpatrick, University of the West of England, UK
Jo Kirpatrick, Open University, UK
Anita Kotwani, University of Delhi, India
Carmel Martin, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, CAL2CAL Institute, India
Amy Price, University of Miami, USA
Susan D. Ross, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Jimmy Shad, People's College of Medical Sciences, India
Sabyasachi Sircar, University College of Medical Sciences, India
Donald E. Stanley, Maine Medical Center, USA
Joachim Sturmberg, Monash and Newcastle University, Australia
Joan Young, Independent Researcher, USA
International Editorial Review Board
I. Elaine Allen, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, USA
Akshay Anand, PGIMER, India
Shaifali Bansal, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ruchi Dass, mHealth Evangelist, India
Anirban Chaudhuri, Consultant, India
Ronan Conroy, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Sovan Dey, La Trobe University, Australia
Binod Dhakal, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Tabriz University of Medical Science and Education, Iran
Ashish Goel, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Daz Greenop, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Sushil Jindal, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Ankur Joshi, National TB Control Program, India
Anil Kapoor, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Edward Kim, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Richard Lehman, Oxford University, UK
Arjun Maitra, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Andrew Miles, Imperial College London, UK
Jyoti Modi, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
Kamalika Mukherji, Hertfordshire NHS Foundation, UK
Vincent O'Brien, University of Cumbria, UK
Brendan O'Shea, Trinity College, Ireland
Chris Peterson, La Trobe University, Australia
Santosh Sapkota, Ohio University, USA
Shruti Sarkar, People’s College of Medical Sciences, India
David Schaefer, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA
Kevin Smith, National Digital Research Centre, Ireland
Prakash Thapaliya, Mayo Clinic, USA
Vijay Thawani, Government Medical College, India
Stefan Topolski, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, USA
Handan Vicdan, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Linda Welsh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rupert Whitaker, Tuke Institute, UK