Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has recently hit the 250 publications landmark. The journal has known considerable developments since its launch back in 2001. It is attracting more submissions than ever before and publications have climbed by 50 percent in the last three years.
The 250th article, 'The influence of context and process when implementing e-health', by David Boddy and colleagues from the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, discusses factors that affect the implementation of e-health projects. The article emphasises that research to support the delivery of appropriate e-health projects can usefully draw on the experience of information systems in other sectors. The article has already been accessed over 500 times since its publication in January.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making within the healthcare setting. The journal is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
