Description:
The Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS) features high-quality, original research, commentary and correspondence that advance the field of healthcare organization management (HOM) and standardization. Evidence-based content explores the use of voluntary consensus standards, conformity... Show More
The Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS) features high-quality, original research, commentary and correspondence that advance the field of healthcare organization management (HOM) and standardization. Evidence-based content explores the use of voluntary consensus standards, conformity assessment systems, and how publishing standardized processes influence the integrity and effectiveness of HOM.
The Journal is interdisciplinary in scope and welcomes submissions that address all aspects of how standardization of HOM practices can influence patient outcomes. The Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS) publishes quantitative research as well as qualitative work and purely theoretical or conceptual papers. It is the official publication of the Healthcare Standards Institute.
Mission & Scope:
The Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS) endeavors to advance knowledge regarding the positive outcomes of standardization as it relates to healthcare organization management (HOM), including effective practices and performance measures. Interdisciplinary in focus, content explores how standardization affects all aspects of HOM including topics such as patient outcomes, resource... Show More
The Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS) endeavors to advance knowledge regarding the positive outcomes of standardization as it relates to healthcare organization management (HOM), including effective practices and performance measures. Interdisciplinary in focus, content explores how standardization affects all aspects of HOM including topics such as patient outcomes, resource utilization, technology, continuity of care, payer systems, stakeholder requirements and continuous improvement. The journal provides a platform for advancing the cause of healthcare standardization, with the goal of improving health systems and patient outcomes. Within the scope of topics are healthcare entities, those organizations whose principal operations consist of agreeing to provide healthcare services and entities whose primary activities are the planning, organization, and oversight of such entities, such as parent or holding companies of healthcare providers regardless of size. Practices and metrics will be limited to staff and operational management of healthcare entities.
Coverage:
- Best Practices in Healthcare Organization Management
- Bioengineering, Staffing and Reliability Standards
- Capital (Financial) Management
- Continuity of Care Standards
- Electronic Health Records and Reporting
- Hand Hygiene
- Healthcare Communication Strategies
- Healthcare Supply Chain Planning and Oversight
- Healthcare Systems Improvement Related to Adaptation of Procedures, Policies, and Standardization
- Healthcare Workforce Training, Empowerment, and Satisfaction
- Interaction Between Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Leadership and Accountability
- Online Statistical Data Collection and Interpretation for Public Health
- Pandemic Response and Management
- Patient Admissions and Discharge Approaches
- PROMS (Patient Related Outcome Measures)
- Risk Management Through Adaptation of Established Standards and Review
- Social, Ethical and Political Context of Health and Well-Being and Analysis of Pertinent Health Policy
- Standardization in Digital And E-Health
- Telemedicine Standards/Protocols
- Transparency in Standards of Care
- Waste Reduction and Eco-Friendly Healthcare Organization Management
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