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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Navathe and Jain encourage community involvement in their venture. <\/p>\n
We are viewing this as a community effort and as a vehicle to engage, said Navathe. <\/p>\n
An alumnus of the college himself, Jain emphasized the importance of undergraduate participation in particular. <\/p>\n
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