Incentives and Health System Efficiency in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) placed “value for money” as an important element to move countries towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in its 2010 World Health Report, stressing that health systems should pay attention to improving efficiency of using existing funding for better health outcomes.

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Annual Report of JHMHP 2021

Greetings from Prof. Jiechun Gao and the Editorial Office of JHMHP!

In 2021, with joint effort and support from all contributors, JHMHP was indexed by Scopus and made steady progress with publication of 42 articles, authors mostly from USA. According to the Google Analytics, JHMHP enjoyed all together 108,426 pageviews and visitors about 35,873 worldwide, mainly from USA. For more details, please check at the following report.

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Innovations and Practices that Influence Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery

The publication of this special series on Innovations and Practices that Influence Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery was intended to report on research that focused on innovative practices and interventions that influence what matters most in health care: the patient.

The 15 papers in this special series all focus on practices in patient-centered care, with some directly addressing issues related to two major global events—the COVID-19 pandemic and racial and social inequities. We hope that this collection improves the experience and outcomes of the most important stakeholder of health care: the patient.

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Organizational Approaches to Implement Rapid Change in Hospitals to Respond to Public Health Emergencies

This series on “Organizational Approaches to Implement Rapid Change in Hospitals to Respond to Public Health Emergencies” is edited by Dr. Erick Guerrero, PhD, from I-Lead Institute at Santa Monica, USA & Dr. Jemima A. Frimpong, PhD, MPH, from Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, USA.

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AI in Healthcare - Opportunities and Challenges

In this special edition, researchers and clinicians from across the world outline the scale of the use of AI in various contexts and key issues to consider in implementing AI in healthcare strategies. Covered in this edition is the ability of AI to enable precision medicine, issues in hospitals using AI for strategic decision making, how AI has been used in the Indian healthcare sector, the role of AI in managing respiratory diseases, the ability of AI to improve the quality of healthcare, why AI and healthcare need each other, and the key data governance challenges involved in implementing AI in healthcare. The collected articles promise not only a good review of AI in healthcare but also a balanced perspective for readers as to what AI can do for healthcare.

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Shaping Tomorrow's Healthcare Systems: Key Stakeholders' Expectations and Experiences (Ongoing)

The Series on “Shaping Tomorrow's Healthcare Systems: Key Stakeholders' Expectations and Experiences” is edited by Stephen J. O'Connor from Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Related Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nancy Borkowski from Department of Health Services Administration, The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Katherine A. Meese from Department of Health Services Administration, The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Interprofessional Education in Asia (Ongoing)

The series on “Interprofessional Education in Asia” is edited by Takatoshi Makino from WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Interprofessional Education, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan.

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Reviewer of the Month (2021)

Over the year, many JHMHP reviewers have made outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

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AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

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Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JHMHP from March 19, 2020.

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To risk adjust or not to risk adjust for sociodemographics—that is the question, so what is the answer?

Research investigating how to appropriately adjust for social risk factors when measuring physician and hospital performance is warranted. Future policies and strategies should continue to investigate ways to provide optimal, high-quality cancer care, especially for vulnerable populations.

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