✓ Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm that their submission complies with all of the following requirements. Manuscripts that do not comply with these guidelines may be returned to the authors before peer review.

1. General Author Guidelines

1. All contributors who wish to submit manuscripts to Medicor : Journal of Health Informatics and Health Policy must comply with these Author Guidelines and the journal's official manuscript template.
2. The journal aims to advance and disseminate scholarly knowledge in health informatics, digital health, electronic health records, health information systems, health-data analytics, telemedicine, health technology, health policy, health services, healthcare management, interoperability, clinical information systems, and related interdisciplinary fields. The journal welcomes original research articles, conceptual analyses, policy analyses, technical studies, and literature reviews that fall within its aims and scope.
3. Submitted manuscripts undergo a blind peer-review process. Before review, the Editorial Team conducts an initial screening to assess conformity with the journal's scope, manuscript format, academic quality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, health-data governance, originality, and relevance to health informatics or policy.
4. Manuscripts that do not comply with the required format may be returned to the authors for correction before being forwarded to reviewers.
5. Reviewers evaluate the appropriateness of the topic, methodological quality, scientific and policy significance, technical validity, originality, contribution to health informatics or health-policy knowledge, quality of analysis, ethical rigor, patient or participant protection, and adequacy and recency of references.
6. Editorial decisions may include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, resubmission, or rejection. The final publication decision remains under the authority of the Editor.
7. The journal uses plagiarism-detection software such as Turnitin or iThenticate. Manuscripts exceeding the similarity threshold established by the Editorial Board will not be processed further.
8. Authors must confirm that the manuscript is original, has not been previously published, and is not simultaneously submitted to another journal.
9. Authors take full responsibility for compliance with publication ethics, including authorship, research integrity, health-data accuracy, clinical-data confidentiality, privacy, informed consent, appropriate citation, conflict-of-interest disclosure, data-security requirements, and research ethics.
10. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's official online submission system, accompanied by the required author declaration or other supporting documents where requested by the Editorial Board.

2. Manuscript Format

Authors are strongly advised to prepare their manuscripts directly using the official Medicor : Journal of Health Informatics and Health Policy template to minimize formatting discrepancies during editorial screening and production.

3.1 Title

The title must accurately reflect the central content and contribution of the article. It should be concise, specific, informative, and academically meaningful within health informatics and health-policy scholarship.

• Maximum recommended length: 16–20 words.
• Do not include the year of research unless scientifically necessary.
• Avoid uncommon abbreviations.
• Place the main health-informatics, digital-health, policy, or healthcare-management concept before secondary explanations.
• The title should reflect the principal system, technology, health-data source, population, healthcare setting, policy issue, intervention, or contribution where relevant.

3.2 Author Names and Affiliations

• Write the author's full name without academic or professional titles.
• Provide the author's institutional affiliation.
• Affiliations should identify the institution clearly and consistently.
• Provide the institution's location/address as required by the template.
• Provide a valid email address for each author where required.
• The corresponding author must be clearly identified.
• The corresponding author's email and telephone number must be provided separately where required.
• Authors are strongly encouraged to provide their ORCID iD.

3.3 Abstract

The abstract must form one continuous and coherent paragraph. It should communicate the essence of the article without requiring readers to consult the main text.

The abstract should logically incorporate the following elements:

3.4 Keywords

Provide three to five keywords immediately below the abstract. Keywords should represent the principal concepts of the article and assist readers and indexing systems in discovering the manuscript.

• Use specific and academically meaningful terms.
• Prefer terms commonly recognized within health informatics, digital health, telemedicine, health policy, health services, healthcare management, electronic health records, or health-data analytics.
• Avoid unnecessarily broad terms such as “health” or “technology” when a more specific concept is available.
• Use lower case except for proper names, systems, standards, frameworks, or terms that conventionally require capitalization.

3.5 Introduction

The Introduction should normally be approximately one to two pages. It must be written as a coherent academic narrative without unnecessary subheadings, numbering, or bullet points in the manuscript.

The Introduction should establish:

1. the health-informatics, digital-health, healthcare-management, health-services, or health-policy problem and its academic, clinical-service, technological, or policy significance;
2. the specific problem and research question(s);
3. the clinical, technological, organizational, data-governance, or policy complexity of the problem;
4. relevant previous studies and the current state of the art;
5. the literature, implementation, technology, service, data, or policy gap;
6. the novelty or distinctive contribution of the study; and
7. clear research objectives.

3.6 Method

The Method section must provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand, assess, and where appropriate replicate the research process.

The methodological approach must be clearly identified, such as quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, health-services research, policy analysis, implementation research, system-development research, usability study, health-data analytics, retrospective or prospective observational research, survey research, case study, economic or policy evaluation, literature review, systematic review, or another appropriate design.

Ethical approval is mandatory for studies involving human participants, patients, identifiable health information, medical records, clinical data, or other activities requiring ethical oversight when required by applicable institutional or national regulations. Authors must appropriately address informed consent, waiver of consent where legitimately approved, privacy, confidentiality, de-identification, data access, cybersecurity, and responsible use of health data. Where ethical approval is not applicable, this should be stated clearly.

3.7 Results

The Results section presents the principal empirical, technical, implementation, service, or policy findings in a clear, systematic, and objective manner.

• Present findings according to the research questions, hypotheses, implementation objectives, policy questions, system requirements, or analytical themes.
• Use processed and summarized data rather than raw statistical, database, or software output.
• For health-information-system or digital-health studies, clearly report usability, adoption, interoperability, implementation, performance, workflow, quality, or outcome indicators where relevant.
• For health-data analytics, report appropriate performance measures, model validation, predictive or classification metrics, and clinically or operationally meaningful outcomes.
• For health-policy research, clearly report policy findings, implementation patterns, stakeholder perspectives, system effects, access implications, cost or service implications, or equity considerations where relevant.
• For qualitative research, present themes, participant perspectives, organizational findings, or implementation experiences systematically.
• Tables, figures, dashboards, workflows, conceptual models, maps, or system diagrams may be used when they improve clarity.
• Avoid duplicating identical information in text, tables, and figures.
• Important findings should be explained in the text rather than merely displayed.

3.8 Discussion

The Discussion must move beyond description by explaining the meaning, significance, and academic, clinical-service, technological, organizational, or policy implications of the findings.

3.9 Conclusion

The Conclusion should present the essence of the study in paragraph form without numbering. It must directly correspond with the research objectives and findings.

The Conclusion should:

• restate the research or policy objective in an appropriate concise form;
• summarize the principal findings;
• answer the research question(s);
• state the healthcare, digital-health, technological, organizational, policy, equity, and/or theoretical implications;
• identify the academic contribution;
• acknowledge relevant limitations; and
• provide appropriate directions for future research, implementation, system development, or policy improvement.

3.10 Acknowledgments

Authors may acknowledge individuals, hospitals, clinics, public-health agencies, healthcare institutions, government agencies, health-information-system teams, IT personnel, data providers, policymakers, research assistants, or other parties that supported the research or publication process but do not meet the criteria for authorship.

3.11 Declarations

Authors must provide the relevant declarations to ensure transparency, accountability, participant protection, responsible health-data use, and research integrity. The declaration section should include Author Contributions, Funding, Conflict of Interest, Generative Artificial Intelligence Use, Ethics Approval and Informed Consent, and Data Availability, as applicable.

3.12 References

The reference list must contain only works cited in the manuscript. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding entry in the reference list, and every reference listed must be cited in the manuscript.

4. Tables and Figures

Oversized tables, extensive health-data dictionaries, full policy coding matrices, detailed system specifications, supplementary dashboards, complete technical logs, or other supporting materials that interrupt the readability of the manuscript should be moved to the Appendices or supplementary materials where appropriate.

5. Appendices

Appendices may contain questionnaires, interview protocols, health-policy coding frameworks, system requirements, interoperability specifications, data dictionaries, algorithms, supplementary analyses, model-performance details, additional tables, implementation workflows, de-identified technical examples, or other supporting materials that assist readers in understanding or evaluating the research but are not essential to the main narrative of the article.

Final Manuscript Quality Check