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Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world. Examining the real issues confronting health services management, it provides an independent view and cutting edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making. HSMR aims to be a forum serving an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians and all health professionals on the other. HSMR wants to make a substantial contribution to both research and managerial practice, with particular emphasis placed on publishing studies which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation toward theoretical advances.

All papers are expected to be of interest and relevance to an international audience. HSMR aims at enhance communication between academics and practitioners concerned with developing, implementing, and analysing health management issues, reforms and innovations primarily in European health systems and in all countries with developed health systems. Papers can report research undertaken in a single country, but they need to locate and explain their findings in an international context, and in international literature. HSMR also promotes invited or commissioned papers, as well as the submission of a collection of papers that could develop into a “special section” or in special issues. Candidacy as guest editor for special issues are welcome.

To achieve the journal's objectives, authors are encouraged to write in a style understandable to health managers and practitioners from other disciplines and in other countries. Health Services Management Research (HSMR) has been accepted into the ESCI.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The journal encourages the submission of short, full-length, comparative and review articles from different backgrounds (health management, organizational psychology and sociology, applied economics, and others) and which address:

· Original primary research using qualitative or quantitative methods;

· Theoretical or methodological developments , papers that present developments in theories, concepts or models in health services management research, or developments in research methods applied to health services.

· Evidence syntheses , that present the results of secondary research – reviews of the existing research evidence conducted rigorously using recognised and accepted methods for review including (but not limited to) Cochrane systematic reviews, and realist or metanarrative reviews.

· Theory-to-pratice papers , that present the results of implementation of theoretical advances in managerial practices. They can report case studies, incidents, histories, interviews and all other forms of research that help to investigate heath management practices of organizations and systems, and their impacts and lessons.

· Perspectives papers , that aim at highlighting, framing and discussing emerging health management issues in the agenda of organizations and systems.

· Ph.D breakthroughs, that show rigorous and innovative methodological approaches and new research questions of interest for the academics and practitioners community. Sign up for the latest table of content alerts.

To achieve the journal's objectives, authors are encouraged to write in a style understandable to health managers and practitioners from other disciplines and in other countries.

Health Services Management Research (HSMR) has been accepted into the ESCI.  

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Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Health Services Management Research: Theory, Evidence, Implications

This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics .

This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hsmr to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned .

Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Health Services Management Research: Theory, Evidence, Implications ( HSMR ) will be reviewed.

There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.

As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Health Services Management Research  may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.

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• What do we publish? 1.1 Aims & Scope 1.2 Article types 1.3 Writing your paper
• Editorial policies 2.1 Peer review policy 2.2 Authorship 2.3 Acknowledgements 2.4 Funding 2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests 2.6 Research ethics and patient consent 2.7 Clinical trials 2.8 Reporting guidelines 2.9 Research Data
• Publishing policies 3.1 Publication ethics 3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement 3.3 Open access and author archiving
• Preparing your manuscript 4.1 Formatting 4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics 4.3 Supplemental material 4.4 Reference style 4.5 English language editing services
• Submitting your manuscript 5.1 ORCID 5.2 Information required for completing your submission 5.3 Permissions
• On acceptance and publication 6.1 Sage Production 6.2 Online First publication 6.3 Access to your published article 6.4 Promoting your article
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1. What do we publish?

1.1 Aims & Scope

Before submitting your manuscript to Health Services Management Research , please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope .

1.2 Article Types

The journal encourages the submission of short, full-length, comparative and review articles from different backgrounds (health management, organizational psychology and sociology, applied economics, and others).

Health Services Management Research publishes seven main types of paper – reports of original primary research; reports of theoretical or methodological developments in health services, organisational or management research; evidence syntheses conducted rigorously and in accordance with accepted guidelines; theory-to-practice works; perspectives on emerging issues; and invited papers commissioned or solicited on important topics by the Editor and Editorial Board.

You will be asked which type of paper you are submitting when you submit a paper online, and will be able to choose from these seven types. Some editorial requirements of each type are outlined briefly below.

Original primary research These papers present the findings from original empirical research using qualitative or quantitative methods. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings, and should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure.

Theoretical or methodological developments These papers present developments in theories, concepts or models in health services management research, or developments in research methods applied to health services. They should not simply contain reviews or reports on theory or methods, but should report a substantive advance or development. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to four tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed, and they should contain a clear summary of the key findings and conclusions from the paper in one table or figure.

Evidence syntheses These papers present the results of secondary research – reviews of the existing research evidence conducted rigorously using recognised and accepted methods for review including (but not limited to) Cochrane systematic reviews, and realist or metanarrative reviews. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to four tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings including a clear explanation of the review methodology and process and they should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure.

Theory-to-practice papers These papers present the results of implementation of theoretical advances in managerial practices. They can report case studies, incidents, histories, interviews and all other forms of research that help to investigate heath management practices of organizations and systems, and their impacts and lessons. Papers submitted should ensure rigorous  investigation of causal relationships and reliable assessment of the impacts, as well ashighlight potentially generalizable interventions or practices.

They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed, and they should contain a clear summary of the key findings and conclusions from the paper in one table or figure. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references.

Perspectives papers Papers that are short work that aim at highlighting, framing and discussing emerging health management issues in the agenda of organizations and systems. They are papers on cutting-edge topics, envisioning, provoking and providing brilliant “food-for-thought” for academics and practitioners. They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed. They should be up to 2000 words in length with up to 10 references.

Ph.D breakthroughs Papers that are directly derived from Ph.D works and dissertations. Tough sometimes they might be still immature and could be further developed in the current academic discourse, their rigorous and innovative methodological approaches and the new research questions they address make them of interest for the academics and practitioners community. They often anticipate new streams of research, or addresses old question with fresh and lateral views. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings, and should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure. Given time issues of Ph.D candidates, a specific peer-review fast-track is designed for these submissions.

Invited or commissioned papers These papers are invited or commissioned by the Editor and Editorial Board of the journal on important topics, and may present original empirical research, or theoretical or methodological developments, or evidence syntheses and in each case should follow the guidelines set out above. In inviting a contribution, the Editor may provide specific guidance on its intended purpose, audience and format. All invited or commissioned papers are subject to the same processes of peer review as other papers, detailed in section 2 above.

HSMR also promotes candidacy as guest editor for special issues.

To achieve the journal's objectives, authors are encouraged to write in a non-technical style, which is understandable to health management practitioners and specialists from other disciplines and in other countries.

Summary of article types:

1.3 Writing your paper

The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on  how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

Covering Letter:  Papers should be accompanied by a covering letter. To help the Editor(s) with their preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication.

Title Page:  The first page should contain the full title of the manuscript, a short title, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the name, postal and email addresses of the author for correspondence, the exact word count for the manuscript (not including appendices, figures/tables or the references list), and details of competing interests and other declarations (see further details below).

The main steps in the process are set out below:

• All submitted and commissioned/invited papers are initially reviewed by the Editor. Papers which are of poor quality, outside the scope of the journal, or not considered sufficiently original or important given the space constraints of a quarterly journal, will be rejected at this stage without peer review. In such cases the authors will receive brief editorial feedback and guidance.
• The Editor will select an Associate Editor based on specific expertise and assign the paper to him/her. The Editor or the Associate Editor will identify two appropriate reviewers given the content of the paper, usually combining both content and methodological expertise. We invite authors to suggest peer reviewers, but do not commit to taking up their suggestions. We ask reviewers to conduct their review within 4 weeks.
• The journal supports the philosophy of open peer review, in which authors and reviewers are aware of each other’s identities and the review process is a constructive and mutual exercise in learning and improvement. We do not anonymize reviewers to the identity of the authors of the paper they are reviewing, and we encourage reviewers to make their identity known to authors though we do not require them to do so.
• We make it clear to reviewers that the contents of submitted papers should be treated as confidential and should not be discussed with anyone else without prior permission from the Editor.
• Reviewers are asked to comment on the following issues:
• Scientific quality, rigour and methodological strengths and weaknesses, appropriate to the nature of the paper and the methods used.
• Importance, relevance or salience of the topic or subject to both the academic and practice communities in health services management.
• Structure, organisation and presentation of the paper including its comprehensibility to the journal’s audience.

6 . The Editor or Associate Editor aims to decide on each paper within 4 weeks of receipt of the two reviews. Three decisions are available: accept (often with some minor corrections or revisions); revise and resubmit; or reject. Authors are sent the editorial decision together with copies of the two reviewers' comments. The Editor or Associate Editor usually sends feedback letters to authors, if the authors are being invited to resubmit the paper. Resubmission must be accompanied with a letter responding analytically to the reviewers’ and Editors’ comments. Reviewers are sent the other reviewer's comments for information. If the decision is revise and resubmit, the Editor or Associate Editor has evaluated the work as worth of being published on HSMR. In this respect, HSMR supports the idea of a developmental review process for which the Editor/Associate Editors as well as the reviewers aim at providing to the authors constructive feedback and support them to reach the desired standards for publication.

1.3.1 Make your article discoverable

When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway:  How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online .

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2. Editorial policies

2.1 Peer review policy

Health Services Management Research operates a strictly anonymized peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.

As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 2 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below: 

• The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
• The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
• Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted

Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite/reject any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.

2.2 Authorship

Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.

The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:

• Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
• Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
• Approved the version to be published,
• Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.

Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.

Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools .

2.3 Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.

2.3.1 Third party submissions Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

• Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
• Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
• Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

2.3.2 Writing assistance

Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.

2.4 Funding

Health Services Management Research requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.  Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements  page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. 

2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests

It is the policy of Health Services Management Research to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.

Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here

2.6 Research ethics and patient consent

Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the  World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki .

Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals , and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.

For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative. Please do not submit the patient’s actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient’s confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient’s hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.

Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants

2.7 Clinical trials

Health Services Management Research conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.

2.8 Reporting guidelines

The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.

Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives

The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages .

Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

• share your research data in a relevant public data repository
• include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
• cite this data in your research

3. Publishing Policies

3.1 Publication ethics

Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the  Sage Author Gateway .

3.1.1 Plagiarism

Health Services Management Research and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

3.1.2 Prior publication

If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway  or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.

3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement

Before publication, Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the  Sage Author Gateway .

3.3 Open access and author archiving

Health Services Management Research  offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage . For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access . For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies .

4. Preparing your manuscript for submission

4.1 Formatting

The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines  page of our Author Gateway.

4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics

For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines .  

Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article.

4.3 Supplemental material

This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our  guidelines on submitting supplementary files .

4.4 Reference style

Health Services Management Research adheres to the Sage Vancouver reference style. View the Sage Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.

If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Harvard EndNote output file .

4.5 English language editing services

Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.

5. Submitting your manuscript

Health Services Management Research is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hsmr to login and submit your article online.

IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.  For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID , the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized. 

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

5.2 Information required for completing your submission

You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).

5.3 Permissions

Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the  Sage Author Gateway .

6. On acceptance and publication

6.1 Sage Production

Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal Sage Edit or by email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.

6.2 Online First publication

Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.

6.3 Access to your published article

Sage provides authors with online access to their final article.

6.4 Promoting your article

Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article  page on the Gateway for tips and advice.

7. Further information

Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Health Services Management Research editorial office as follows:

[email protected]

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Research Topics & Ideas: Healthcare

100+ Healthcare Research Topic Ideas To Fast-Track Your Project

Finding and choosing a strong research topic is the critical first step when it comes to crafting a high-quality dissertation, thesis or research project. If you’ve landed on this post, chances are you’re looking for a healthcare-related research topic , but aren’t sure where to start. Here, we’ll explore a variety of healthcare-related research ideas and topic thought-starters across a range of healthcare fields, including allopathic and alternative medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacology and public health.

NB – This is just the start…

The topic ideation and evaluation process has multiple steps . In this post, we’ll kickstart the process by sharing some research topic ideas within the healthcare domain. This is the starting point, but to develop a well-defined research topic, you’ll need to identify a clear and convincing research gap , along with a well-justified plan of action to fill that gap.

If you’re new to the oftentimes perplexing world of research, or if this is your first time undertaking a formal academic research project, be sure to check out our free dissertation mini-course. In it, we cover the process of writing a dissertation or thesis from start to end. Be sure to also sign up for our free webinar that explores how to find a high-quality research topic.

Overview: Healthcare Research Topics

• Allopathic medicine
• Alternative /complementary medicine
• Veterinary medicine
• Physical therapy/ rehab
• Optometry and ophthalmology
• Pharmacy and pharmacology
• Public health
• Examples of healthcare-related dissertations

Allopathic (Conventional) Medicine

• The effectiveness of telemedicine in remote elderly patient care
• The impact of stress on the immune system of cancer patients
• The effects of a plant-based diet on chronic diseases such as diabetes
• The use of AI in early cancer diagnosis and treatment
• The role of the gut microbiome in mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety
• The efficacy of mindfulness meditation in reducing chronic pain: A systematic review
• The benefits and drawbacks of electronic health records in a developing country
• The effects of environmental pollution on breast milk quality
• The use of personalized medicine in treating genetic disorders
• The impact of social determinants of health on chronic diseases in Asia
• The role of high-intensity interval training in improving cardiovascular health
• The efficacy of using probiotics for gut health in pregnant women
• The impact of poor sleep on the treatment of chronic illnesses
• The role of inflammation in the development of chronic diseases such as lupus
• The effectiveness of physiotherapy in pain control post-surgery

Topics & Ideas: Alternative Medicine

• The benefits of herbal medicine in treating young asthma patients
• The use of acupuncture in treating infertility in women over 40 years of age
• The effectiveness of homoeopathy in treating mental health disorders: A systematic review
• The role of aromatherapy in reducing stress and anxiety post-surgery
• The impact of mindfulness meditation on reducing high blood pressure
• The use of chiropractic therapy in treating back pain of pregnant women
• The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine such as Shun-Qi-Tong-Xie (SQTX) in treating digestive disorders in China
• The impact of yoga on physical and mental health in adolescents
• The benefits of hydrotherapy in treating musculoskeletal disorders such as tendinitis
• The role of Reiki in promoting healing and relaxation post birth
• The effectiveness of naturopathy in treating skin conditions such as eczema
• The use of deep tissue massage therapy in reducing chronic pain in amputees
• The impact of tai chi on the treatment of anxiety and depression
• The benefits of reflexology in treating stress, anxiety and chronic fatigue
• The role of acupuncture in the prophylactic management of headaches and migraines

Topics & Ideas: Dentistry

• The impact of sugar consumption on the oral health of infants
• The use of digital dentistry in improving patient care: A systematic review
• The efficacy of orthodontic treatments in correcting bite problems in adults
• The role of dental hygiene in preventing gum disease in patients with dental bridges
• The impact of smoking on oral health and tobacco cessation support from UK dentists
• The benefits of dental implants in restoring missing teeth in adolescents
• The use of lasers in dental procedures such as root canals
• The efficacy of root canal treatment using high-frequency electric pulses in saving infected teeth
• The role of fluoride in promoting remineralization and slowing down demineralization
• The impact of stress-induced reflux on oral health
• The benefits of dental crowns in restoring damaged teeth in elderly patients
• The use of sedation dentistry in managing dental anxiety in children
• The efficacy of teeth whitening treatments in improving dental aesthetics in patients with braces
• The role of orthodontic appliances in improving well-being
• The impact of periodontal disease on overall health and chronic illnesses

Tops & Ideas: Veterinary Medicine

• The impact of nutrition on broiler chicken production
• The role of vaccines in disease prevention in horses
• The importance of parasite control in animal health in piggeries
• The impact of animal behaviour on welfare in the dairy industry
• The effects of environmental pollution on the health of cattle
• The role of veterinary technology such as MRI in animal care
• The importance of pain management in post-surgery health outcomes
• The impact of genetics on animal health and disease in layer chickens
• The effectiveness of alternative therapies in veterinary medicine: A systematic review
• The role of veterinary medicine in public health: A case study of the COVID-19 pandemic
• The impact of climate change on animal health and infectious diseases in animals
• The importance of animal welfare in veterinary medicine and sustainable agriculture
• The effects of the human-animal bond on canine health
• The role of veterinary medicine in conservation efforts: A case study of Rhinoceros poaching in Africa
• The impact of veterinary research of new vaccines on animal health

Topics & Ideas: Physical Therapy/Rehab

• The efficacy of aquatic therapy in improving joint mobility and strength in polio patients
• The impact of telerehabilitation on patient outcomes in Germany
• The effect of kinesiotaping on reducing knee pain and improving function in individuals with chronic pain
• A comparison of manual therapy and yoga exercise therapy in the management of low back pain
• The use of wearable technology in physical rehabilitation and the impact on patient adherence to a rehabilitation plan
• The impact of mindfulness-based interventions in physical therapy in adolescents
• The effects of resistance training on individuals with Parkinson’s disease
• The role of hydrotherapy in the management of fibromyalgia
• The impact of cognitive-behavioural therapy in physical rehabilitation for individuals with chronic pain
• The use of virtual reality in physical rehabilitation of sports injuries
• The effects of electrical stimulation on muscle function and strength in athletes
• The role of physical therapy in the management of stroke recovery: A systematic review
• The impact of pilates on mental health in individuals with depression
• The use of thermal modalities in physical therapy and its effectiveness in reducing pain and inflammation
• The effect of strength training on balance and gait in elderly patients

Topics & Ideas: Optometry & Opthalmology

• The impact of screen time on the vision and ocular health of children under the age of 5
• The effects of blue light exposure from digital devices on ocular health
• The role of dietary interventions, such as the intake of whole grains, in the management of age-related macular degeneration
• The use of telemedicine in optometry and ophthalmology in the UK
• The impact of myopia control interventions on African American children’s vision
• The use of contact lenses in the management of dry eye syndrome: different treatment options
• The effects of visual rehabilitation in individuals with traumatic brain injury
• The role of low vision rehabilitation in individuals with age-related vision loss: challenges and solutions
• The impact of environmental air pollution on ocular health
• The effectiveness of orthokeratology in myopia control compared to contact lenses
• The role of dietary supplements, such as omega-3 fatty acids, in ocular health
• The effects of ultraviolet radiation exposure from tanning beds on ocular health
• The impact of computer vision syndrome on long-term visual function
• The use of novel diagnostic tools in optometry and ophthalmology in developing countries
• The effects of virtual reality on visual perception and ocular health: an examination of dry eye syndrome and neurologic symptoms

Topics & Ideas: Pharmacy & Pharmacology

• The impact of medication adherence on patient outcomes in cystic fibrosis
• The use of personalized medicine in the management of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease
• The effects of pharmacogenomics on drug response and toxicity in cancer patients
• The role of pharmacists in the management of chronic pain in primary care
• The impact of drug-drug interactions on patient mental health outcomes
• The use of telepharmacy in healthcare: Present status and future potential
• The effects of herbal and dietary supplements on drug efficacy and toxicity
• The role of pharmacists in the management of type 1 diabetes
• The impact of medication errors on patient outcomes and satisfaction
• The use of technology in medication management in the USA
• The effects of smoking on drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics: A case study of clozapine
• Leveraging the role of pharmacists in preventing and managing opioid use disorder
• The impact of the opioid epidemic on public health in a developing country
• The use of biosimilars in the management of the skin condition psoriasis
• The effects of the Affordable Care Act on medication utilization and patient outcomes in African Americans

Topics & Ideas: Public Health

• The impact of the built environment and urbanisation on physical activity and obesity
• The effects of food insecurity on health outcomes in Zimbabwe
• The role of community-based participatory research in addressing health disparities
• The impact of social determinants of health, such as racism, on population health
• The effects of heat waves on public health
• The role of telehealth in addressing healthcare access and equity in South America
• The impact of gun violence on public health in South Africa
• The effects of chlorofluorocarbons air pollution on respiratory health
• The role of public health interventions in reducing health disparities in the USA
• The impact of the United States Affordable Care Act on access to healthcare and health outcomes
• The effects of water insecurity on health outcomes in the Middle East
• The role of community health workers in addressing healthcare access and equity in low-income countries
• The impact of mass incarceration on public health and behavioural health of a community
• The effects of floods on public health and healthcare systems
• The role of social media in public health communication and behaviour change in adolescents

Examples: Healthcare Dissertation & Theses

While the ideas we’ve presented above are a decent starting point for finding a healthcare-related research topic, they are fairly generic and non-specific. So, it helps to look at actual dissertations and theses to see how this all comes together.

Below, we’ve included a selection of research projects from various healthcare-related degree programs to help refine your thinking. These are actual dissertations and theses, written as part of Master’s and PhD-level programs, so they can provide some useful insight as to what a research topic looks like in practice.

• Improving Follow-Up Care for Homeless Populations in North County San Diego (Sanchez, 2021)
• On the Incentives of Medicare’s Hospital Reimbursement and an Examination of Exchangeability (Elzinga, 2016)
• Managing the healthcare crisis: the career narratives of nurses (Krueger, 2021)
• Methods for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infection in pediatric haematology-oncology patients: A systematic literature review (Balkan, 2020)
• Farms in Healthcare: Enhancing Knowledge, Sharing, and Collaboration (Garramone, 2019)
• When machine learning meets healthcare: towards knowledge incorporation in multimodal healthcare analytics (Yuan, 2020)
• Integrated behavioural healthcare: The future of rural mental health (Fox, 2019)
• Healthcare service use patterns among autistic adults: A systematic review with narrative synthesis (Gilmore, 2021)
• Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Combatting Burnout and Compassionate Fatigue among Mental Health Caregivers (Lundquist, 2022)
• Transgender and gender-diverse people’s perceptions of gender-inclusive healthcare access and associated hope for the future (Wille, 2021)
• Efficient Neural Network Synthesis and Its Application in Smart Healthcare (Hassantabar, 2022)
• The Experience of Female Veterans and Health-Seeking Behaviors (Switzer, 2022)
• Machine learning applications towards risk prediction and cost forecasting in healthcare (Singh, 2022)
• Does Variation in the Nursing Home Inspection Process Explain Disparity in Regulatory Outcomes? (Fox, 2020)

Looking at these titles, you can probably pick up that the research topics here are quite specific and narrowly-focused , compared to the generic ones presented earlier. This is an important thing to keep in mind as you develop your own research topic. That is to say, to create a top-notch research topic, you must be precise and target a specific context with specific variables of interest . In other words, you need to identify a clear, well-justified research gap.

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Editorial: Health service management and leadership: COVID-style

1 School of Business, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Sandra Buttigieg

2 Department of Health Services Management, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

Gloria Macassa

3 Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

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4 School of Management, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

COVID-19—the term that changed the world. The COVID-19 pandemic shaped our personal lives, our professional lives, our educational and recreational pursuits, as well as how we die and grieve ( 1 – 3 ). However, arguably, no one was affected more than those who deliver, manage, and receive healthcare, senso lato . For instance, following government and organizational directives, the pandemic influenced: who can interact with whom; when they can do it; and how, including the information they are (not) privy to, the resources they can(not) access, and when. These changes can compromise the organizational practices of a health service, morale, and the wellbeing of those affiliated with the service, such as staff members (including volunteers) as well as patients and carers.

Although change within health services can be slowed, if not stopped by bureaucracy and politics (among other factors), COVID-19 illustrated how swiftly change can happen in health services in the face of a global crisis. The world quickly became a village, as organizations across the government, university, private, and not-for-profit sectors collaborated and colluded to navigate and manage the pandemic. This might have been partly helped by similar challenges that many nations and health systems share, including aging populations ( 4 ), the increasing prevalence of complex and chronic disease ( 5 ), the rising cost of healthcare, and limited capacity within the healthcare workforce, fuelled by burnout.

However, COVID-19 also amplified the differences between nations and health systems. Consider, for instance: the different shades of government involvement in healthcare—while some nations benefit from a healthy public health system, others do not ( 6 ); the disparate access to resources, partly due to varied degrees of investment in research and development, as well as supply chains; the different degrees of public trust in government ( 7 ); citizen engagement in public health efforts; the cultural richness of the nation, particularly the presence of First Nations peoples and people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; geographical terrain, and the proportion of citizens who reside in rural, regional, and remote areas; and the leadership styles of those leading nations or the health services, therein.

In response to the rapid spread of COVID-19, this Research Topic represents a complement of formative and thought-provoking articles that collectively advance the research and practice of health service management and leadership. The Research Topic offers opportunities to capture, learn from, and inspire managerial and leadership practices that have helpfully navigated this precarious period. It includes international exemplars to demonstrate what it takes and can take to manage and lead a health service to ultimately weather storms, like COVID-19.

The importance and urgency of this Research Topic follow extant research, from which three key points are apparent. First, there are likely to be COVID-like pandemics in the future, partly due to the Anthropocene epoch ( 8 – 11 ). Second, although health services are certainly familiar with, if not accustomed to crisis management, many are ill-prepared for the system-wide effects—if not, seismic shift—associated with instances like COVID-19. Third, relative to clinical research, there is limited scholarship on how to lead and manage health services during global pandemics.

The Research Topic is comprised of myriad article types, collectively presenting arguments about health service management and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, in their brief research report, Guo et al. demonstrated the use of virtual models to redesign the intrahospital transportation of patients thought to have COVID-19 to ultimately curtail transmission. Processes were also the focus of a scoping review—specifically, Best and Williams considered healthcare supply chain management and how personal protective equipment is sourced during pandemics. They concluded that, although little was learnt from previous pandemics, and despite the paucity of research from low- and middle-income nations, “planning… collaboration and relationship building” are pivotal when sourcing personal protective equipment during a pandemic. Dadich and Mellick Lopes also contributed a review—however, theirs is a lexical review; that is, an analysis of discourse to determine how words travel together. Following their lexical review of 36 articles on leadership during a pandemic, they offered two key findings— “First… leadership discourse was often associated with a single leader, rather than multiple leaders… This reinforces the way in which leadership is often attributed to an individual, rather than to a team of leaders”. Second, discourse about leadership was “somewhat disconnected from… stakeholders, including colleagues and patients, and relationships with these stakeholders”. Given these findings, they argued that there were considerable opportunities to advance scholarship on leadership during a pandemic. Naamati-Schneider and Gabay also considered the power of discourse—specifically, they examined metaphors of war in effective and ineffective coping among medical directors of COVID-19 wards in public hospitals. They found that “Effective coping was facilitated by war metaphors that created a sense of mission and meaningfulness at both the organizational and the individual levels. War metaphors that generated a sense of isolation and sacrifice intensified helplessness and fear, which undermined coping”. Their research has important implications for how information about pandemics is communicated and how others support can be bolstered and sustained. Specifically, they argued for “metaphors, analogies, and words that emphasize ideology and values that empower (heroism, cohesion, comradeship)”; furthermore, they proposed “avoiding metaphors, analogies, and words that emphasize distress and isolation”.

Like Naamati-Schneider and Gabay , others also contributed original research. Consider, for instance, Petrie et al. 's ethnographic research to investigate innovation in rural health across four nations. Among their findings, they discovered the value of “absorptive capacity… community connections, and… some level of ignorance of the barriers to innovation”. Yet they called for future research to “understand how vulnerable or marginalized populations were supported, and to see how local services managed their relationships with provincial health departments, distant specialists, and other external actors”. In their original research article, Di Pumpo et al. demonstrated the value of queueing theory to maximize safety at, and the performance of COVID-19 vaccination sites. Notably, they verified how modeling premised on queueing theory helps to “quantify ahead of time the outcome of organizational choices on both safety and performance”. Dellve and Williamsson also offered original research to this Research Topic through their investigation of development work in aged care. Specifically, they considered “ongoing development work at the strategic and operational levels, noting the importance of this work for trustworthy operational management work”. They found differences between strategic-level development leaders and operational-level leaders. While the former “focused the strengthening of old adults' capabilities”, the latter “approached strengthening employees' capability”. Given aging populations worldwide and, relatedly, the growing strain on aged care services, this study has direct international relevance. Qian et al. offered the last original research article, the focus of which was a comparison of government policy and community participation to manage the spread of COVID-19. This interesting study concluded that government policy and community participation assumed different roles at different times—“although the government played a leading role in setting up policies, the broader participation of community fever clinics… and the general public were especially crucial in winning the battle against COVID-19 in the long run”.

Complementing the aforesaid articles are perspective and opinion articles. The perspective articles include that by Lee and Wong who argued that, to manage a global pandemic, governance arrangements are required that “enable organic and responsive processes for all actors in society”—this can include hybrid modes where “(1) the state… undertakes coordination based on the consensus of actor-networks, (2) the market… is repurposed with a high-risk investment of the state, and (3) the network… is steered by traditional principles of public governance”. Amu et al. offered another perspective article focused on sub-Saharan Africa. They contended that “Long-lasting abysmal health system financing and insufficient government investment… pose major challenges to the effective health systems functioning amid the COVID-19 pandemic”—furthermore, they called for research to examine and improve responses to COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. Finally, Balconi et al. co-authored an opinion article on monitoring strategies and intervention policies to enhance and protect advanced neuroscientific research, post COVID-19, in Italy. Drawing on an applied example—the MIRNA project—the authors demonstrated the value of a uniform approach to reinstate pre-pandemic practices. The example revealed the benefit of “standardized and shared practices… to ensure that R&D [research and development] overcomes this crisis and potential future challenges, while also protecting the public health and all actors involved in the strategic research field of basic, clinical and applied neurosciences”.

Each contribution to this Research Topic highlights international efforts in response to a common challenge—COVID-19. And given the prospect of future pandemics, the value of the lessons presented in this Research Topic are likely to have value in the longer term. In the interim, the challenge for scholars, policymakers, as well as those who deliver and manage healthcare is to advance current understandings of health service management and leadership, to ensure that we garner and build on what we have collectively learnt through this international experience.

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Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world. Examining the real issues confronting health services management, it provides an independent view and cutting edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making. HSMR aims to be a forum serving an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians and all health professionals on the other. HSMR wants to make a substantial contribution to both research and managerial practice, with particular emphasis placed on publishing studies which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation toward theoretical advances.

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· Theoretical or methodological developments , papers that present developments in theories, concepts or models in health services management research, or developments in research methods applied to health services.

· Evidence syntheses , that present the results of secondary research – reviews of the existing research evidence conducted rigorously using recognised and accepted methods for review including (but not limited to) Cochrane systematic reviews, and realist or metanarrative reviews.

· Theory-to-pratice papers , that present the results of implementation of theoretical advances in managerial practices. They can report case studies, incidents, histories, interviews and all other forms of research that help to investigate heath management practices of organizations and systems, and their impacts and lessons.

· Perspectives papers , that aim at highlighting, framing and discussing emerging health management issues in the agenda of organizations and systems.

· Ph.D breakthroughs, that show rigorous and innovative methodological approaches and new research questions of interest for the academics and practitioners community. Sign up for the latest table of content alerts.

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Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Health Services Management Research: Theory, Evidence, Implications

This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics .

This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hsmr to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned .

Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Health Services Management Research: Theory, Evidence, Implications ( HSMR ) will be reviewed.

There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.

As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Health Services Management Research  may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.

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• What do we publish? 1.1 Aims & Scope 1.2 Article types 1.3 Writing your paper
• Editorial policies 2.1 Peer review policy 2.2 Authorship 2.3 Acknowledgements 2.4 Funding 2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests 2.6 Research ethics and patient consent 2.7 Clinical trials 2.8 Reporting guidelines 2.9 Research Data
• Publishing policies 3.1 Publication ethics 3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement 3.3 Open access and author archiving
• Preparing your manuscript 4.1 Formatting 4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics 4.3 Supplemental material 4.4 Reference style 4.5 English language editing services
• Submitting your manuscript 5.1 ORCID 5.2 Information required for completing your submission 5.3 Permissions
• On acceptance and publication 6.1 Sage Production 6.2 Online First publication 6.3 Access to your published article 6.4 Promoting your article
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1. What do we publish?

1.1 Aims & Scope

Before submitting your manuscript to Health Services Management Research , please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope .

1.2 Article Types

The journal encourages the submission of short, full-length, comparative and review articles from different backgrounds (health management, organizational psychology and sociology, applied economics, and others).

Health Services Management Research publishes seven main types of paper – reports of original primary research; reports of theoretical or methodological developments in health services, organisational or management research; evidence syntheses conducted rigorously and in accordance with accepted guidelines; theory-to-practice works; perspectives on emerging issues; and invited papers commissioned or solicited on important topics by the Editor and Editorial Board.

You will be asked which type of paper you are submitting when you submit a paper online, and will be able to choose from these seven types. Some editorial requirements of each type are outlined briefly below.

Original primary research These papers present the findings from original empirical research using qualitative or quantitative methods. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings, and should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure.

Theoretical or methodological developments These papers present developments in theories, concepts or models in health services management research, or developments in research methods applied to health services. They should not simply contain reviews or reports on theory or methods, but should report a substantive advance or development. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to four tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed, and they should contain a clear summary of the key findings and conclusions from the paper in one table or figure.

Evidence syntheses These papers present the results of secondary research – reviews of the existing research evidence conducted rigorously using recognised and accepted methods for review including (but not limited to) Cochrane systematic reviews, and realist or metanarrative reviews. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to four tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings including a clear explanation of the review methodology and process and they should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure.

Theory-to-practice papers These papers present the results of implementation of theoretical advances in managerial practices. They can report case studies, incidents, histories, interviews and all other forms of research that help to investigate heath management practices of organizations and systems, and their impacts and lessons. Papers submitted should ensure rigorous  investigation of causal relationships and reliable assessment of the impacts, as well ashighlight potentially generalizable interventions or practices.

They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed, and they should contain a clear summary of the key findings and conclusions from the paper in one table or figure. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references.

Perspectives papers Papers that are short work that aim at highlighting, framing and discussing emerging health management issues in the agenda of organizations and systems. They are papers on cutting-edge topics, envisioning, provoking and providing brilliant “food-for-thought” for academics and practitioners. They should be presented using structured headings though no particular structure is prescribed. They should be up to 2000 words in length with up to 10 references.

Ph.D breakthroughs Papers that are directly derived from Ph.D works and dissertations. Tough sometimes they might be still immature and could be further developed in the current academic discourse, their rigorous and innovative methodological approaches and the new research questions they address make them of interest for the academics and practitioners community. They often anticipate new streams of research, or addresses old question with fresh and lateral views. They should be up to 4000 words in length with up to six tables or figures and up to 30 references. They should be presented using conventional structured headings, and should contain a clear summary of the research findings and their implications for healthcare managers in one table or figure. Given time issues of Ph.D candidates, a specific peer-review fast-track is designed for these submissions.

Invited or commissioned papers These papers are invited or commissioned by the Editor and Editorial Board of the journal on important topics, and may present original empirical research, or theoretical or methodological developments, or evidence syntheses and in each case should follow the guidelines set out above. In inviting a contribution, the Editor may provide specific guidance on its intended purpose, audience and format. All invited or commissioned papers are subject to the same processes of peer review as other papers, detailed in section 2 above.

HSMR also promotes candidacy as guest editor for special issues.

To achieve the journal's objectives, authors are encouraged to write in a non-technical style, which is understandable to health management practitioners and specialists from other disciplines and in other countries.

Summary of article types:

1.3 Writing your paper

The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on  how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

Covering Letter:  Papers should be accompanied by a covering letter. To help the Editor(s) with their preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication.

Title Page:  The first page should contain the full title of the manuscript, a short title, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the name, postal and email addresses of the author for correspondence, the exact word count for the manuscript (not including appendices, figures/tables or the references list), and details of competing interests and other declarations (see further details below).

The main steps in the process are set out below:

• All submitted and commissioned/invited papers are initially reviewed by the Editor. Papers which are of poor quality, outside the scope of the journal, or not considered sufficiently original or important given the space constraints of a quarterly journal, will be rejected at this stage without peer review. In such cases the authors will receive brief editorial feedback and guidance.
• The Editor will select an Associate Editor based on specific expertise and assign the paper to him/her. The Editor or the Associate Editor will identify two appropriate reviewers given the content of the paper, usually combining both content and methodological expertise. We invite authors to suggest peer reviewers, but do not commit to taking up their suggestions. We ask reviewers to conduct their review within 4 weeks.
• The journal supports the philosophy of open peer review, in which authors and reviewers are aware of each other’s identities and the review process is a constructive and mutual exercise in learning and improvement. We do not anonymize reviewers to the identity of the authors of the paper they are reviewing, and we encourage reviewers to make their identity known to authors though we do not require them to do so.
• We make it clear to reviewers that the contents of submitted papers should be treated as confidential and should not be discussed with anyone else without prior permission from the Editor.
• Reviewers are asked to comment on the following issues:
• Scientific quality, rigour and methodological strengths and weaknesses, appropriate to the nature of the paper and the methods used.
• Importance, relevance or salience of the topic or subject to both the academic and practice communities in health services management.
• Structure, organisation and presentation of the paper including its comprehensibility to the journal’s audience.

6 . The Editor or Associate Editor aims to decide on each paper within 4 weeks of receipt of the two reviews. Three decisions are available: accept (often with some minor corrections or revisions); revise and resubmit; or reject. Authors are sent the editorial decision together with copies of the two reviewers' comments. The Editor or Associate Editor usually sends feedback letters to authors, if the authors are being invited to resubmit the paper. Resubmission must be accompanied with a letter responding analytically to the reviewers’ and Editors’ comments. Reviewers are sent the other reviewer's comments for information. If the decision is revise and resubmit, the Editor or Associate Editor has evaluated the work as worth of being published on HSMR. In this respect, HSMR supports the idea of a developmental review process for which the Editor/Associate Editors as well as the reviewers aim at providing to the authors constructive feedback and support them to reach the desired standards for publication.

1.3.1 Make your article discoverable

When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway:  How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online .

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2. Editorial policies

2.1 Peer review policy

Health Services Management Research operates a strictly anonymized peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.

As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 2 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below: 

• The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
• The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
• Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted

Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite/reject any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.

2.2 Authorship

Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.

The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:

• Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
• Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
• Approved the version to be published,
• Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.

Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.

Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools .

2.3 Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.

2.3.1 Third party submissions Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

• Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
• Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
• Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

2.3.2 Writing assistance

Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.

2.4 Funding

Health Services Management Research requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.  Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements  page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. 

2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests

It is the policy of Health Services Management Research to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.

Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here

2.6 Research ethics and patient consent

Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the  World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki .

Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals , and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.

For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative. Please do not submit the patient’s actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient’s confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient’s hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.

Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants

2.7 Clinical trials

Health Services Management Research conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.

2.8 Reporting guidelines

The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.

Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives

The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages .

Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

• share your research data in a relevant public data repository
• include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
• cite this data in your research

3. Publishing Policies

3.1 Publication ethics

Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the  Sage Author Gateway .

3.1.1 Plagiarism

Health Services Management Research and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

3.1.2 Prior publication

If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway  or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.

3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement

Before publication, Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the  Sage Author Gateway .

3.3 Open access and author archiving

Health Services Management Research  offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage . For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access . For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies .

4. Preparing your manuscript for submission

4.1 Formatting

The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines  page of our Author Gateway.

4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics

For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines .  

Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article.

4.3 Supplemental material

This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our  guidelines on submitting supplementary files .

4.4 Reference style

Health Services Management Research adheres to the Sage Vancouver reference style. View the Sage Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.

If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Harvard EndNote output file .

4.5 English language editing services

Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.

5. Submitting your manuscript

Health Services Management Research is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hsmr to login and submit your article online.

IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.  For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID , the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized. 

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

5.2 Information required for completing your submission

You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).

5.3 Permissions

Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the  Sage Author Gateway .

6. On acceptance and publication

6.1 Sage Production

Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal Sage Edit or by email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.

6.2 Online First publication

Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.

6.3 Access to your published article

Sage provides authors with online access to their final article.

6.4 Promoting your article

Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article  page on the Gateway for tips and advice.

7. Further information

Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Health Services Management Research editorial office as follows:

[email protected]

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Mar 14, 2024 | Online MS in Management , Online MS in Management: Digital Transformation in Healthcare Blog

Healthcare environments are rapidly evolving. Due to changing patient needs, medical advancements, and greater use of data and technology, there’s been a shift in what facilities expect out of their employees.  

For example, advanced education has become vital for healthcare professionals to stay proficient amidst the digital transformation in healthcare . That’s why so many healthcare professionals are earning a degree in healthcare management.  

Whether you’re interested in healthcare administration , policymaking, or information systems , here’s a closer look at what you can expect from a master’s degree in healthcare management at Northeastern.  

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What is healthcare management      .

While direct-care providers who work one-on-one with patients are often the “face” of healthcare systems, there are several decision-makers behind the scenes who keep the facilities running. These are often MDs assuming practice management responsibilities—but just as often not.  

  “Healthcare management is both managing current operations and innovating on those operations to improve medical outcomes,” says Marc Meyer, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim College of Business and Faculty Director of the program.  

  Some examples of these operations include:   

• Hiring qualified staff
• Overseeing facility finances
• Allocating resources
• Organizing health data  

  In many ways, healthcare management is the coordination of processes, people, and resources involved in the delivery of healthcare services.   

  Northeastern’s students come from a variety of career backgrounds in clinical care management and quality assurance, including nursing managers and administrative staff that manage patient intake, inpatient flow, and discharge. There are also students who represent the multitude of administrators that manage personnel, IT, facilities, and marketing for healthcare enterprises. In large organizations, these roles manage substantial research operations or pathology and other types of lab services.  

 “This shows how vast and complex healthcare delivery really is. is, with an incredible range of roles to manage different aspects of that delivery,” Meyer says.

 What Is a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Management ?  

For those interested in the operations of healthcare facilities there are several non-clinical career paths that can make an impact on patient outcomes.  

A master’s in healthcare management is an advanced degree designed to equip students with the comprehensive skills and knowledge needed to lead and manage healthcare organizations effectively.   

It covers a broad range of core topics, including:   

• Healthcare finance  
• Healthcare ethics  
• Enterprise competitive strategy  
• Healthcare supply chain management  
• Data analytics and quality measurement  
• Operations management and services innovation in healthcare  
• Healthcare economics and policy  

Northeastern’s Online MS in Management programs touch on all of these topics, preparing students to handle the business side of healthcare operations in various industries, such as hospitals, clinics, government agencies, and other healthcare settings.    

  The two programs Northeastern offers include:   

• Digital Transformation in Healthcare : Focuses on the role of data analytics, clinical decision support systems, data management, and machine learning to improve the quality of care. A major part of each course is applying course methods to personal projects at real organizations, like medical device manufacturers, medical software companies, or government agencies.  
• Healthcare Administration : Provides a more comprehensive education on the “people side” of healthcare, including leadership, multifunctional team management, negotiations, workforce planning, and DEI enablement.   

No matter what degree students choose, they can take electives from the other track in their own course of study. Our goal is to empower individuals to make a meaningful impact on patients, their organizations, and their career. The courses provide a blend of technical, managerial, and healthcare-specific knowledge that enables graduates to innovate, streamline, and enhance the healthcare delivery and management system.  

6 Benefits of Earning a Master’s in Healthcare Management at Northeastern Online

I f you’re concerned about the time commitment of a master’s degree program, earning an online master’s degree might be the right option for you. Here are six benefits of earning an online healthcare management degree at Northeastern . 

1. Flexibility  

Online education has emerged as a popular route for professionals who want to further their education without disrupting their careers. In fact, online institutions enroll nearly 15 percent of U.S postsecondary students —or 2.79 million learners according to Forbes.  

  Online master’s programs—like the ones offered at Northeastern—provide a flexible and accessible way for individuals to enhance their skills and knowledge with asynchronous courses and optional, but highly encouraged, live faculty connect sessions.   

“You’re not going to have to take four years off and get a degree in data science or something,” Meyer says. “Instead you’ll take some short, powerful courses that get you up to speed on healthcare today and give you the space to then apply it.”

2. Career Advancement

Earning an advanced education can empower both healthcare and non-clinical professionals to overcome the gaps in their understanding of the business side of the industry. This is often the key barrier preventing them from achieving leadership positions.  

“Many people in the healthcare industry didn’t go to business school,” says Meyer. “So one reason to get this advanced degree is to learn that aspect of healthcare that can get you a seat at the table.”  

Northeastern’s online master’s degree in healthcare management programs are designed to cultivate leadership and strategic planning skills, crucial for career advancement in today’s complex healthcare system. By equipping students with these competencies, the programs prepare them to navigate today’s top challenges in the healthcare sector.

3. Faculty Expertise 

Relocating for grad school isn’t a viable option for everyone. However, Northeastern’s online degree programs make it possible for any professional to learn from industry leaders at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.  

For instance, Dr. John Halamka , Northeastern’s faculty co-director and president of the Mayo Clinic platform, previously served as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s chief information officer. He has advised on healthcare information strategies for the Bush and Obama administrations and helped shape the Biden administration’s AI healthcare policy.  

Learning from experienced professionals like Dr. Halamka offers students unparalleled insights into the industry. And, ultimately, this engagement with industry leaders provides valuable perspectives that can prepare them for a successful career in healthcare management.

4. Experiential Learning 

Healthcare professionals who want to become leaders need to grow and reinforce their skills by practicing, not just studying theories or watching others. Northeastern’s degree programs engage students through experiential learning to strengthen critical thinking and decision-making skills.   

Past students at Northeastern’ have worked on various projects through this model that gave them the space to explore their passions, such as:   

• Overseeing a mini clinic in Vietnam  
• Improving mental health treatment in young children  
• Managing medication safety in hospitals  

This hands-on approach enables students to apply their knowledge in real-time, enhancing their ability to evaluate problems and improve the solutions they develop.

5. Network Opportunities 

Networking is a key advantage of pursuing a graduate education. In this setting, learners collaborate with goal-oriented professionals who are passionate about their work and bring a wealth of diverse experience.

Northeastern’s expansive network of 50,000 D’Amore-McKim School of Business alumni, students engage in rich exchanges with peers, faculty, and industry leaders through discussion groups and roundtables, enhancing their management skills and competitive edge in the industry.

“You’re gonna meet a bunch of teachers who are working in prestigious organizations, not just at Northeastern, but the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere,” Meyer says. “And then you’re gonna be surrounded by other mid-career professionals who will be very important sounding boards as you move forward in your career.”

6. Specialized Field of Study

Specialization is the key to developing expert skills that prepare you to take on challenging roles. Northeastern’s two specializations offer cutting-edge curriculum that reflects the latest trends and advancements, and the courses are continually updated to ensure graduates learn the most relevant information.

The Digital Transformation in Healthcare teaches managers, direct care providers, and transitioning professionals how to leverage data and technology to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare services.   

“We start with core innovation principles and methods from across industry,” Meyer says.”Then, we dig into healthcare specific applications.”   

The program explores topics like:  

• Telemedicine  
• Data security,  
• Mobile and remote health applications  

At the same time, the curriculum addresses the risk factors of data-driven decision-making and the importance of reducing bias in generative AI solutions.  

The Healthcare Administration is tailored to mid-career healthcare professionals and people transitioning from other fields. The program equips graduates to master the core responsibilities of operations management across patient services, quality management, and connectivity for healthcare. It also helps students develop skills in negotiation, workforce planning, and DEI management.  

Start Your Future Career in Healthcare Management  

Starting a career in healthcare management with a master’s degree isn’t just about securing a certain role, it’s also about setting a solid foundation for long-term professional advancement and success.  

“Don’t think about your next job,” Meyer says. “Think about the next job after and how education fits into your longer-term career path.”  

By choosing Northeastern’s graduate degrees in healthcare management, you’re not only deepening your understanding of essential leadership principles but also engaging in an educational experience that combines experiential learning with an innovative curriculum that can take your career to the next level.  

For details on the Online MS in Management programs, contact an admissions counselor to see how they match your goals.    

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