Most Wired Online accepts articles from outside contributors to complement its regular offering of features, columns and departments. Potential articles must focus on some aspect of health care technology and, if possible, should address the role of information technology in shaping the future of health care or in creating high-quality, safer care.
All articles must appeal to an executive-level audience in hospitals and health systems. We particularly seek articles that:
- Provide a new or cutting-edge angle on technology leadership in the changing health care environment
- Illustrate how policy, payment and privacy issues affect the successful deployment and use of IT
- Promote IT for community health improvement
- Promote cross-sector collaboration on a broad range of issues, such as standardization, e-prescribing, EMR, evidence-based medicine, and using technology to improve health status
- Stimulate teamwork and integrated approaches to technology, especially articles that illustrate specific problems and their solutions
- Inspire new ways of thinking about the role of technology in improving the quality of health care services and addressing related social issues
- Offer strategies and insights from industries outside of health care
- Engage our readers in creative or unexpected ways.
The typical length of articles in Most Wired Online is 800 - 1,000 words.
Inquiries. To inquire about the appropriateness of an article idea, please send a working title, 150-200 word abstract, and biographical sketch to the Electronic Managing Editor, Jane Jeffries, at jjeffries@healthforum.com.
Manuscript preparation. Please prepare an electronic manuscript according to the recommendations of The Associated Press Stylebook. The first page of the manuscript should include the working title of the article, as well as the author's full name, degrees, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Multiple contributors should designate a corresponding author.
Tables, figures and illustrations must be as simple as possible. Please place them at the end of the electronic document. Make sure that you mention each table, figure and illustration in the text body, and provide appropriate titles, labels, sources and legends (if applicable) for each one.
Complete references should be incorporated as parenthetical matter within the text body. As a nonacademic publication, Most Wired Online does not publish endnotes, footnotes, or reference lists — except when unusual circumstances arise.
Each manuscript must be submitted with a cover note attesting to its originality and verifying that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere, nor is it being considered elsewhere for publication.
Manuscripts may mention commercial products or services in the normal course of discussion but must not endorse them to the exclusion of competitors.
Please prepare your manuscript in Microsoft Word and e-mail it in a noncompressed file to the Managing Editor, Jane Jeffries, at jjeffries@healthforum.com. If a different software package is to be used, the Editor should be consulted in advance of submission to make sure the file will be readable.
All manuscripts are copyedited, per house style, and are returned to the author for final review before they are published. The copy editor may also request your assistance in resolving queries at this time.
Questions? Please e-mail the Managing Editor at jjeffries@healthforum.com.
