Technology and Health Care

Impact Factor
2023
1.6
CiteScore
2023
2.0

Volume

31, 6 issues

Latest issue

32:1 online 09 January 2024

Next issue

32:2 scheduled for March 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 1993

ISSN print

0928-7329

ISSN online

1878-7401

Aims & Scope

Technology and Health Care is intended to serve as a forum for the presentation of original articles and technical notes, observing rigorous scientific standards. Furthermore, upon invitation, reviews, tutorials, discussion papers and minisymposia are featured. The main focus of THC is related to the overlapping areas of engineering and medicine. The following types of contributions are considered:

  1. Original articles: New concepts, procedures and devices associated with the use of technology in medical research and clinical practice are presented to a readership with a widespread background in engineering and/or medicine. In particular, clinical cooperation is important and the clinical benefit deriving from the application of engineering methods and devices in clinical medicine should be demonstrated. Typically, full length original contributions have a length of 4000 words, thereby taking duly into account figures and tables.
  2. Technical Notes and Short Communications: Technical Notes relate to novel technical developments with relevance for clinical medicine. In Short Communications, clinical applications are shortly described. Both Technical Notes and Short Communications typically have a length of 1500 words.
  3. Reviews and Tutorials (upon invitation only): Tutorial and educational articles for persons with a primarily medical background on principles of engineering with particular significance for biomedical applications and vice versa are presented. The Editorial Board is responsible for the selection of topics.
  4. Minisymposia (upon invitation only): Under the leadership of a Special Editor, controversial or important issues relating to health care are highlighted and discussed by various authors.
  5. Letters to the Editors: Discussions or short statements (not indexed).

Specific topics relating to medical and biological engineering within the journal’s scope are:

  • Biomedical signal processing
  • Medical physics, biomedical imaging and radiation protection
  • Bio-micro/nano technologies
  • Biomaterials and artificial organs
  • Biomechanics, bioelectronics, robotics and minimally invasive surgery
  • Cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine systems engineering
  • Neural and rehabilitation engineering
  • Molecular, cellular and tissue engineering
  • Bioinformatics and computations biology
  • Clinical engineering and health technology assessment
  • Health informatics, e-health, home health and telemedicine
  • Pharmaceutical engineering
  • Genetic engineering
  • Veterinary engineering
  • Metrology in medical measurements

Note: In consideration of the rapid development of medical IT, the description of computer programs, in particular of AI and machine learning procedures, exhibiting screen shots, explicit computer code, etc. is not accepted for publication because of imminent obsoleteness. Likewise, for the same reason, computer-based image or biological signal analysis procedures without demonstration of long-lasting clinical relevance are not suited for publication. Furthermore, the presentation of surveys and questionnaire projects, often with local participation only, is not in agreement with the aims & scope of the journal.

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Matthias Lahner
Joint Center Hilden
Ruhr University Bochum
Hilden, Germany
Email: lahner@gelenkzentrum-hilden.de

Prof. Dr. Almir Badnjevic
Verlab Research Institute
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Email: almir@verlabinstitute.com

Past Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Ali E. Engin, 1999-2005
Prof. em. Peter F. Niederer, 1993-2022

Deputy Editors-in-Chief

Bolanle Asiyanbola
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, TN, USA
Email: basiyan@hotmail.com

Makoto Ohta
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
Email: ohta@biofluid.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp

Section Editors​​​​​​

Biomechanics

Nenad Filipović
University of Kragujevac
Kragujevac, Serbia

Clinical Engineering, Health Technology Management, Human Factor Engineering

Ernesto Iadanza
University of Siena
Siena, Italy

Leandro Pecchia
Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome
Rome, Italy

Data Science and Medical Image Analysis

Seifedine Kadry
Noroff University College
Oslo, Norway

Dentistry

Saurabh Chaturvedi
King Khalid University
Abha, Saudi Arabia

Julfikar Haider
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UK

Internet of Things, Medical Image Analysis, Health Care 5.0

Chi Lin
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian, China

M-health

Melvyn Zhang Weibin
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore

Medical Device Technology

Lejla Gurbeta Pokvić
Verlab Research Institute
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Orthopedics, Arthroscopic Joint Surgery

Wolfram Teske
Ruhr University
Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Public Health, Health Information Systems

Edin Begic
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ram Bhagyalakshmi
PSNA College of Engineering and Technology
Kothandaraman Nagar, India

Editorial Board

Shanmugam Balamurugan
Intelligent Research Consultancy Services
Coimbatore, India

Elizabeth Bell Brokaw
MITRE Health
McLean, VA, USA

Gerardo Catapano
University of Calabria
Rende, Italy

Marina Carbone
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy

Mustafa Citak
Helios ENDO Clinic Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

Sara Condino
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy

James A. Covington
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK

Mark Donnelly
Ulster University
Newtownabbey, UK

Garry Duffy
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (​RCSI)
Dublin, Ireland

David Elad
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Juan Fang
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Bern, Switzerland

Irum Feroz
Northeastern University London
London, UK

Chiara Giulia Fontanella
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Chandra Babu Gokulnath
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore, India

Joachim Hammer
Regensburg University of Applied Sciences
Regensburg, Germany

Jungsoo Han
Baekseok University
Cheonan, Korea

Peter Hilfiker
Swiss Epilepsy Centre
Zurich, Switzerland

Petra Hospodková
Czech Technical University in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

Kenneth J. Hunt
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Bern, Switzerland

Christine Huttin
Aix-Marseille University
Marseille, Belgium

Yizhang Jiang
Jiangnan University
Wuxi, China

Ashish Joshi
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE, USA

Cathal Kearney
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Dublin, Ireland

Dimitris Koutsouris
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece

Gregorij Kurillo
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Adam Liebert
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland

Dieter Liepsch
Munich University of Applied Sciences
Munich, Germany

Paul Peter Lunkenheimer
University Hospital Muenster
Muenster, Germany

Peter Manser
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Maria Maddalena Marrapodi
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Napels, Italy

Zlatko Matjacic
University Rehabilitation Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matjaz Mihelj
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Marina Milosevic
University of Kragujevac
Kragujevac, Serbia

Giuseppe Minervini
University of Campania ''Luigi Vanvitelli'
Naples, Italy

Hamidreza Namazi
Monash University Malaysia
Selangor, Malaysia

Stanislav Polzer
Technical University of Ostrava
Ostrava, Czech Republic

Christopher Pulliam
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Vladimir Rogalewicz
Czech Technical University in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

Jude P.J. Savarraj
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX, USA

Amulya K. Saxena
Imperial College London
London, UK

Kai-Uwe Schmitt
AGU Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Ayush Singhal
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Min Soon Kim
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Columbia, MO, USA

Ling Sun
Zimmer Inc.
Warsaw, IN, USA

Nirmalya Thakur
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

Mohy Uddin
King Saud bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Kelvin Yeung
The University of Hong Kong Medical Centre
Hong Kong, China

Yudong Zhang
University of Leicester
Leicester, UK

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[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: 
www.cancer.ca/.

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As a standard policy, decisions are based on two reviews, in some specific circumstances one review may be deemed sufficient to make a decision on a paper. The Editors-in-Chief strive to ensure a typical turnaround time of 3 months.

Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:

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