Two professors affiliated with Harvard Medical School recently announced the launch of a new journal focusing on healthcare delivery. Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation will be distributed by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.

Co-founders Amol S. Navathe and Sachin H. Jain 02 brought the initiative to life in the hopes of providing a novel vehicle for communicating recent advances in their discipline.

There is an extraordinary amount of change going on in the health care system right now, said Jain. There needs to be a rapid dissemination of learning as we send some of our best ideas of how to improve health care into practice, and we are eager to provide people with a new source to share.

With hundreds of journals already available to the greater scientific community, new publications generally fulfill increasingly specialized niches. Health Care, however, targets a diverse audience by catering to both practical and intellectual interests.

We are not only scientifically rigorous, but we are also interested in real-life applications, said Navathe. Our target audience is not only academicians but also health care policy makers.

Ashish Jha, Professor of Medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, envisions an illustrious future for the journal, slated for release in late spring 2013.

In the short term, I want the journal to be seen by authors as an important venue for their work, said Jha. Over the long term, I want Health Care to be a journal where clinical leaders look to first when they think about delivery system innovation.

Navathe and Jain encourage community involvement in their venture.

We are viewing this as a community effort and as a vehicle to engage, said Navathe.

An alumnus of the college himself, Jain emphasized the importance of undergraduate participation in particular.

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Harvard Medical School to Launch New Healthcare Journal