Healthcare Informatics Research (Healthc Inform Res; HIR) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) founded in 1987, and replaced its predecessor, the Journal of KOSMI (JKOSMI; ISSN: 1225-8903), in 2010. The journal publishes quarterly peer-reviewed original research articles in English in order to expand its readership globally and reinforce its commitment to the development of healthcare informatics.

The journal aims to promote the fundamental understanding of healthcare informatics and advance knowledge and application systems in healthcare fields. It covers high-quality original research articles, reviews, case reports, and communications in the area of design, development, implementation, and evaluation of information systems in healthcare fields. It also includes health policy, education, managerial and behavioral aspects of healthcare informatics as well as health information infrastructure such as standardization, security, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics.

All or part of the HIR is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Google Scholar, KoreaMed, Synapse, KoMCI Web, CrossCheck, and CrossRef. The journal follows the Open Access Journal policy, and all its content is freely available from http://e-hir.org/.

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Contact HIR
Young Moon Chae, Editor-in-Chief
The Editorial Office
The Korean Society of Medical Informatics
1618 Kyungheegung Achim Bldg 3, 72 Naesoo-dong Chongro-ku, Seoul 110-872, Korea
Tel: (82-2) 733-7637, (82-2) 734-7637 Fax: (82-2) 734-7763
E-mail: tokosmi@kosmi.org, Homepage: http://www.e-hir.org