The International Journal of Healthcare Delivery Reform Initiatives (IJHDRI) publishes original papers in all areas of healthcare management reform and information systems initiatives aimed at healthcare delivery improvement. It emphasizes empirical research but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers from both practitioners and academics working in the healthcare industry. It particularly looks at the analysis of ongoing and future initiatives to promote efficiency and reduce error, continuous increase in cost of healthcare delivery, wider divide in the quality of health service available to different segments of our communities, and the influence of increase use of IT in various healthcare delivery processes.
The journal is divided into three independently edited sections:
HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT REFORM addresses those domains of reform initiatives in which management change plays a major role, including the interface of healthcare professionals and healthcare delivery process, affect, and motivation. Among topics covered are the strategy, policy formation, change, and utilization of attitudes, attributions, regulation, and consequences of management habits within the healthcare industry. Of interest also are the influence of management behavior and its various interfaces on significant healthcare phenomena such as budgetary decisions, medication policy, staff persuasion, communication, prejudice, social development, and cultural trends.
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY PROCESSES focuses on significant trends in the process of healthcare delivery currently around the world. Appropriate to this section are papers on the nature and dynamics of healthcare delivery processes and relationships with healthcare outcomes. It also considers governments and medical associations own procedures and processes of taking initiatives toward improving healthcare delivery.
PATIENT-CENTRIC INITIATIVES promotes research on all aspects of healthcare delivery reform that focuses on bringing the patient to the center of healthcare delivery. This includes studies of basic processes within healthcare institutions that target direct benefits to patients without regard for individual and institutional differences. It also includes studies of individual differences and basic processes in behaviors of healthcare providers towards patient care and specific patient centric initiatives. Articles in areas such as structure, technology, and assessment of patient care are also appropriate to this section of the journal, as are studies of the interplay of culture, personality, and manifestations of patient centric issues in everyday behavior.