STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.
Health Care provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in the study of cutting edge research on innovation in healthcare delivery, including improvements in systems, processes, management, payment, and applied information technology. The United States healthcare system is reportedly undergoing unprecedented reform. The journal builds on examples to demonstrate how change happens in real-world settings, disseminating important ideas that inform and improve clinical practice by publishing innovative, high quality research, reviews and opinions.
The leadership of the journal comes under three Senior co-Editors-in-Chief, all renowned experts on healthcare transformation - Arnold Milstein, Professor of Medicine at Stanford and Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health; Richard Shannon, the Frank Wister Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ashish Jha, C. Boden Gray Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Founders of the journal and co-Editors-in-Chief are Dr. Amol Navathe, a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital who holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sachin H. Jain, a physician at the Boston Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Lecturer in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck.
