Authors are kindly requested to carefully follow all instructions on how to write a paper. In cases where the instructions are not followed, the paper will be returned immediately with a request for changes, and the editorial review process will only start when the paper has been resubmitted in the correct style.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted material and this permission should be acknowledged in the paper.

Authors should not use the names of patients. Patients should not be recognizable from photographs unless their written permission has first been obtained. This permission should be acknowledged in the paper.

Contributions are submitted in the English language only. Use ‘American English’ instead of ‘British English’, unless you are from a British English speaking country. Use a spell checker and consult, if necessary, a native English speaker before submitting your article.

For detailed instructions on how manuscripts should be submitted, please see our instructions to authors.

Instructions to Authors (PDF)

For your manuscript preparation you may find these templates useful:

To prepare and submit an evaluation study, you may find the following STARE-HI - statement on reporting of evaluating studies in health information¹ - useful:

The purpose of STARE-HI is to provide guidelines for the reporting of evaluation studies in health informatics, independent of the evaluation method used. IMIA's Technology Assessment and Quality Development Working Group was responsible for IMIA's contribution to the development of STARE-HI, which also had input from EFMI's Assessment of Health Information Systems Working Group and AMIA's Evaluation Working Group. The document was approved for endorsement by the General Assembly at its annual meeting in 2008.

¹STARE-HI Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics
Jan Talmon, Elske Ammenwerth, Jytte Brender, Nicolette de Keizer, Pirkko Nykänen, Michael Rigby
International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 1-9, Copyright Elsevier (2009).

ACI Framework for Case Reports (modified from STARE-HI)

Adobe Reader is necessary to view PDF files. If you don't already have it installed, you will need to download and install it first.

Click here to download Acrobat Reader from www.adobe.com