Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and the OR Society recently announced that they will launch Health Systems, a new interdisciplinary journal in 2012. Health Systems is a sister journal to EJIS and JORS. Health Systems will provide a cross-pollination of insights and perspectives in one journal to advance health systems knowledge in research and practice.  The journal’s underlying philosophy is that problems in healthcare need to be viewed holistically as an integrated system of multiple components (people, organizations, technology and resources) and perspectives.  The journal’s distinguishing strength is its interdisciplinary nature, and the principal aim of the journal is to bring together critical disciplines that have proved themselves already in health and to leverage these contributions by providing a forum that brings together diverse viewpoints and research approaches – qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual.

Health Systems is edited by:

  • Sally Brailsford (University of Southampton, UK)
  • Paul Harper (Cardiff University, UK)
  • Cynthia LeRouge (Saint Louis University, USA)
  • Fay Cobb Payton (North Carolina State University, USA)

The journal is now accepting submissions. Targeted first round review turnaround time is three months. The first issue of Health Systems will be published in June 2012.   Health Systems will be available in print and online with site licenses available to institutions. Please see http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/index.html for more information.

Palgrave Macmillan representatives and Fay Cobb Payton will attend Pre-ICIS and ICIS 2011 events.