Journal of Health Informatics

The Journal of Health Informatics (JHI) is an official publication of the Brazilian Health Informatics Society. It is a peer-reviewed free and open access journal which is published quarterly. The JHI provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of Health Informatics.

Focus and scope

  • Information Systems, including national and international registration systems, hospital information systems, document management systems, electronic health record, standardization integration systems, etc;
  • Organizational, social, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of TI applications related to health care area;
  • Computer-aided decision support systems using heuristics, algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified by decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc;
  • Evaluation of educational programs pertaining Health Informatics
  • Standardization in terminologies.

Publication and submission policies

The JHI accepts for publication the following types of manuscripts: Original Articles, Review, Technical Report and Letter to the Editor. The Journal of Health Informatics has adopted the Vancouver guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and accepts publication in three languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English.

The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of digital preservation and restoration.

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief

  • Heimar de Fátima Marin, Journal of Health Informatics, Brazil

Scientific Editor

  • Daniel Sigulem, Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde, Brazil

Technical Advisor

  • Isaac Rosa Marques, Journal of Health Informatics, Brazil

Editorial Board

  • Alvaro Margolis, Universidad de la Republica Uruguay, Uruguay
  • Charles Safran, Harvard Medical School, United States
  • Eduardo Marques, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Eneida Mendonça, University of Chicago, United States
  • Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Grace T. M. Dal Sasso, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Heloísa Helena Ciqueto Peres, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Ivan Torres Pisa, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Jacques Wainer, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
  • Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard Medical School, United States
  • Magdala Araújo Novaes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Marco Antônio Gutierrez, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Patrice Degoulet, Hopital Université Georges Pompidou, France
  • Paulino Artur Ferreira Sousa, Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal
  • Paulo Bandiera Paiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Riccardo Bellazzi, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • Sérgio Furuie, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Umberto Tachinardi, University of Chicago, United States