This special issue is led by a collaboration of the International Medical Informatics Association Working Groups on Primary Health Care (PHC) Informatics and Technology Assessment & Quality Development, and European Federation of Medical Informatics WG on Evaluation. The evidence base on the effectiveness of digital health remains weak. There are numerous small pilot effectiveness studies in limited settings. However, there are few comparative effectiveness studies or controlled scale-up implementation studies of digital health in PHC. This special issue seeks to bring together papers describing the diversity, innovation and rigour of study designs and evaluation of digital health in Primary Health Care (PHC). Evaluation may be of digital health or with digital health. We are seeking papers that address evaluation, digital health and primary health care, with studies in the following areas:
Digital health innovations in clinical and/or managerial practice in PHC;
Digital health to strengthen health systems and organisations to achieve universal health coverage, providing safe and effective care, including access and equity of care;
Integrated patient-centred health services, including comprehensiveness, continuity and coordination of care
Innovative digital health evaluation methodologies that are valid and generalisable
Safety, quality and sustainability
Comparative effectiveness research
Scale up and implementation research
Governance and ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) research
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Addictive Behaviors
Call for Papers for Special Issue on New Directions in the Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Neurocognitive Processes in Addictive Disorders
This special issue will gather papers focused on (1) the exploration, using neuropsychological or neuroscience tools, of the processes involved in the etiology and maintenance of addictive disorders; (2) the development of innovative tasks or measures to evaluate these processes; (3) clinical trials proposing a process-based rehabilitation among patients confronted with addictive behaviors. The processes explored can encompass classical cognitive functions (e.g., memory, executive functions), substance-related biases (e.g., attentional bias, implicit associations), but also affective and interpersonal functions (e.g., emotional decoding, Theory of Mind, social cognition). The special issue encompasses all types of addictive disorders, including substance use disorders (e.g., alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, opioids, nicotine, novel psychoactive substances [NPS]) and behavioral addictions (e.g., gambling, gaming, or buying disorder). Priority will be given to full-length articles (≤3500 words) and short communications (≤2000 words) proposing empirical data in clinical and experimental psychopathology, neuropsychology, psychiatry and/or neuroscience. Case studies (≤2500 words), systematic reviews (≤4000 words) and mini-reviews (≤2500 words) will also be considered, providing they offer new insights or perspectives on the topic.
The special issue article type will be open to submissions on 31st July 2019. To submit a paper to this Special Issue, please go tohttps://www.evise.com/profile/#/ADDICTBEH/loginand select "VSI: Neurocognition in addiction" as the article type. The deadline for submissions is 31st October 2019.
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Forensic Science International
Digital Transformations in Forensic Science: Forensic Science International + Digital Investigation Joint Special Issue
Dependence on forensic capabilities, particularly digital forensics, is increasing in criminal, civil, and regulatory matters, including security matters such as terrorist attacks and cyber incidents. This trend is driving decentralization and commoditization of forensic capabilities, placing powerful tools in the hands of non-specialists to deal with immediate problems in isolation, without the support of Forensic Science infrastructures. This separation from Forensic Science principles and practices may lead to errors and omissions, especially in digital forensics, which endangers individual liberties and diminishes trust in Forensic Science as a whole. This separation also diminishes the opportunities for Forensic Science to gain a holistic insight into its fundamental objects of study, thus potentially missing crucial information and jeopardizing its future health/growth.
Forensic Science cannot reverse the decentralization movement but can seize the opportunity to connect with disparate deployments of forensic capabilities, receiving data and delivering knowledge. Combining the data being gathered in multitude of different environments generates greater understanding of forensic findings and their usefulness, as well as a more comprehensive understanding of crime, malfeasance, and security-relevant problems. Altering Forensic Science from a diffusion of different disciplines into a unified amalgamation of knowledge serving the common purposes of abating crime, strengthening security, and reinforcing the criminal justice system requires a digital transformation.
This special issue invites submissions related to digital transformations in Forensic Science, including the following topics of specific interest:
+ Pertinent opinion pieces, commentary articles and case reports
+ Legal perspectives on maintaining continuity of evidence and repeatability of forensic findings when forensic capabilities are used in the field by non-scientists (e.g., risk of evidence not being preserved for independent examination).
+ Legal and ethical perspectives on relying on links established using artificial intelligence or machine learning
+ Solutions and strategies for managing opportunities and challenges of decentralization of forensic capabilities
+ Rationales and approaches for fusion of physical and/or digital forensic results
+ Interdependence and independence of Forensic Science and investigative operations
+ Interrelations between Forensic Science and forensic intelligence
+ Big data analysis applied to Forensic Science, combining physical and/or digital forensic results
+ Artificial intelligence / Machine learning applied to Forensic Science
+ Social media as part of traditional investigations
+ Quality assurance when forensic capabilities are used in decentralized contexts
+ Challenges and opportunities associated with biometrics in Forensic Science and digital forensics
+ Centralised research, development and administration of advanced forensic capabilities, made available throughout a decentralized forensic ecosystem
+ Strategies for handling the rapid rate of advancement in Forensic Science knowledge and technological developments.
+ Harmonisation of data formats and exchange of forensic information between tools, organizations and countries
+ Knowledge management, training and education
+ Explicability and evaluation of forensic results and automated processing
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Journal of Proteomics
Call for papers for thematic issue on Structural Proteomics
We are organizing a thematic issue forJournal of ProteomicsonStructural Proteomics. The aim is to illustrate the use of cutting edge technologies such as cross-linking mass spectrometry (XLMS), covalent labeling (CLMS), Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange (HDX), Ion Mobility / Native MS (IMS), and new chemistry or bioinformatics software tailored toward structural proteomics.
We recognize your protagonism in this field and therefore invite you to contribute with a research article, tutorial, review or application note to this special issue; given the importance of these strategical topics and the right timing, we hope to count you in.
If you agree, please send us a tentative manuscript title by 1 June. The submission deadline will be November 30th, 2019and is expected to be published on March 2020; accepted manuscripts will be readily published online.
Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics, will publish in 2021 a Focus Issue containing selected papers from contributions to ECMP 2020 (European Congress of Medical Physics, 24-26 September 2020, Torino, Italy). Soon after the Conference, contributing authors, selected by a group of Guest Editors nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, will be invited to send electronically their manuscript, via the EJMP website, for the peer-review process according to the strict evaluation rules of EJMP. There will be no page charges for this Focus Issue which will contain regular papers (not Proceedings papers). Authors might wish to select the Open Access option and corresponding publication fee. Deadline for submission of invited contributions:31 December 2020.