Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare (FinJeHeW) is a scientific journal established by the Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA) and the Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (FSTeH), and it also serves as the official journal for the members of the establishers.
Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association, FinnSHIA), www.stty.org and Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth, FSTeH, www.telemedicine.fi/en/
Contact information
Kristiina Häyrinen, PhD Editor-in-Charge
Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
Parontie 116 FI-79600 Joroinen FINLAND
Email: kristiina.hayrinen@gmail.com Tel. +358 40 7082 500
http://www.finjehew.fi
Content:
The content varies, so all the items are not necessarily included in every issue.
1. Editorial 2. News
3. Announcements a. education calendar
b. education by the associations c. other educational announcements 4. Column (circulating assignment for board members and Finnish and international experts)
5. Scientific articles 6. Lectio praecursoria 7. Other articles
8. Periscope column on interesting phenomena
9. Pros and cons room for public debate 10. Recently read literature
11. Discussion room for members and company members
12. Recruiting room
a. free of charge for personal members seeking for jobs, chargeable for others
b. chargeable for companies, cut- rate prices for member companies 13. Advertising room
a. member companies entitled to a logo and a link to their website free of charge
b. virtual advertising room; charge able, cut-rate prices for member companies
Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association, FinnSHIA), www.stty.org and Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth, FSTeH, www.telemedicine.fi/en/
Aim of FinJeHeW
The Journal was established in 2009.
The aim of the Journal is to promote scientific research, communication and education in the fields of information and communication technology relating to social and health care, telemedicine, eHealth and eWelbeing.
Financial assistance has been granted to the journal by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies since 2010. FinJeHeW benefits the members of the associations further by functioning as an
information channel, multi- disciplinary publication forum, and supporter for the international network.
Articles
The Journal welcomes articles on information and communication techno- logy of social and health care,
telemedicine, eHealth, and eWelbeing.
Instructions for authors can be found on the Journal website. FinJeHeW is mainly a Finnish language journal, but also includes articles, abstracts and other material in English and, if necessary, in Swedish as well.
All submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the editor. Manuscripts that are consid- ered suitable for publication in the Journal are sent to two referees for assessment.
The scientific articles must comply with the Vancouver style (International Com- mittee of Medical Journal Editors 2000).
Publication principles
The Journal is published in electronic form and includes four issues per year. Each issue can be accessed free of charge three months after the date of publica-
tion. Before that, the journal can be accessed by way of usernames
and passwords of the members of the related associations, or
an author password issued by the editor.
Editorial board
Research director, PhD Alpo Värri (Tampere University of Technology), Professor, PhD Reima Suomi (University of Turku), director Kalevi Virta (eWell Oy), CIO Ari Pätsi (South Ostrobothnia Hospital District), Senior Lecturer, PhD Ulla-Mari Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland), Senior Specialist, PhD Teemu- pekka Virtanen (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health), Chief physician of medical
development Päivi Metsäniemi (Suomen Terveystalo Oy) and as Editor-in-Charge PhD Kristiina Häyrinen.
Members of the associations
The associations have aproximately 500 per- sonal members in total, as well as a few dozen company or community members.
The members are experts in the fields of health care, social affairs-related administration, research, development,
management and the hands-on work both from the public and private sectors and companies in the field.
The fields of special interest of the associations include information
and communication systems of social and health care, related applications, processes, devel- opment, rsearch and education, as well as telemedicine. The members are among the key persons of their respective organi- zations.
Journal information
Name: Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare (FinJeHeW)
ISSN: 1798-0798
Publishers: Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA), and the Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (FSTeH) Publishing frequency: at least 4 issues per year
Type of publication: online (available by way of passwords issued by the related associations or author passwords, free access 3 months after publication date)
Indexing: to PubMed ongoing
Journal website: http://www.finjehew.fi The Journal
welcomes articles on information and com-
munication technology of social and health care,
telemedicine, eHealth, and eWelbeing.
Manuscripts submitted to FinJeHeW are
evaluated by two referees.
Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association, FinnSHIA), www.stty.org and Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth, FSTeH, www.telemedicine.fi/en/
