Health Affairs

Health Affairs theme issue on Connected Health, February 2014
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2013
Submission procedures
Questions: contact deputy editor Sarah Dine (sdine@projecthope.org) or executive editor Don Metz (dmetz@projecthope.org)

Health Affairs plans to publish an issue on the topic of Connected Health in February 2014. Connected health covers the development of technologies that are aimed at expanding treatment opportunities that extend beyond traditional care settings, such as telehealth, remote monitoring devices, etc. We have invited papers on a number of topics and are seeking work in several areas, including those listed below.

We aim to present a compilation of articles on connected health technologies and how to maximize their effective, efficient, and safe use. The volume will inform those in the public health and health care sectors, as well as employers, government agencies and the nation's policy makers, of measures needed to support the adoption of these technologies and overcome obstacles to tapping their full potential.

We seek research articles, analyses, and commentary from researchers and scholars, analysts, and health system stakeholders.

We would welcome the chance to consider papers on the topics listed below, and others that complement these areas. Papers will be competitively reviewed by editors, and, for those that are selected for external review, outside experts. We will make publication decisions based on these selection processes.

If you are interested in submitting a paper, please review our Submission procedures

• Care Delivery: How is telehealth implemented to improve care quality and improve health outcomes? Examples of successful implementation of telehealth applications.

• Integration: How to integrate emerging and ongoing communications and other technologies in care monitoring and delivery with traditional ambulatory and hospital based health care.

• Examples from non-integrated delivery systems that have succeeded in integrating telemedicine/telemonitoring in care delivery.

• Evaluation: Describe current active evaluation efforts of real-time applications and projects and how these efforts can inform care evaluation over time; defining best practice for users; how to take to scale; etc.

• Improving Care Coordination and Engaging Patients in Self Care: mHealth Innovations.

• Payment: How do health systems and payers reimburse for telehealth?

• What are the barriers to expansion: State level variation in licensing, definitions of procedures/care; role of regulators.

• What are the policy changes needed to speed the adoption of effective telehealth innovations and strategies?