Health Management Technology accepts and publishes bylined and contributed articles. However – please query first, before writing an article or sending a pre-written manuscript.

The No. 1 way to increase your chance of being published in HMT is to read HMT, and acquaint yourself with what we publish (and what we don’t). You can do this online at our Web site in our archives. Authors who are most successful with HMT are those who are already familiar with the magazine and its requirements before they contact us.

Submissions to HMT must be exclusive. Once HMT accepts an article concept for publication and commissions the article, we expect that contributing authors and/or their agents will not continue to pitch the topic elsewhere until after its publication in HMT.

Audience

HMT is written for senior executives in hospitals, healthcare organizations, integrated delivery networks, managed care organizations and health plans, and physician practices and IPAs. Our readers are CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, CMOs, CTOs, IT directors and managers, and other decision makers working in information technology in healthcare settings.

Timeframes and Deadlines

We work four to five months in advance – and sometimes more. If you want to pursue a topic for the September issue, you should query no later than May.

Copyright and Editing

Health Management Technology is owned and published monthly by Nelson Publishing Inc., Nokomis, FL. All articles that appear in HMT are copyrighted and owned by the magazine, not by the author or author’s organization. Contributing authors must sign an article release and copyright assignment form prior to publication. All articles in HMT are edited by HMT editors suitability and style and also to remove any commercialization overtones from the article.

Types of Articles

Bylined and contributed articles may come from vendors, end-users healthcare organizations or consultants. Please send a proposal, pitch or abstracts, either by telephone or email, of a well-developed concept for an article. Look on HMT’s home page in the “Contact us” section and send your proposal to one of the HMT editors.

For every article we want to pursue, an HMT editor works personally with the contributing author in developing and finalizing his or her topic for publication. We welcomes queries about the following:

Features. Feature articles explore state-of-the-art in healthcare information technology. We examine issues and questions facing executives as they make technology decisions for their organizations—facts they need to know, obstacles, technology trends, available options, innovations to consider. We cover a wide range of topics described in our editorial calendar and we welcome suggestions for new topics not on the editorial calendar. We have more detailed guidelines for those interested in front-of-the-book features. E-mail one of the editors and ask for them.

Case Histories. HMT specializes in case histories and uses a number different formats for them. The editors decide which format is most appropriate for a case history after hearing details about it and deciding to pursue it for publication.

What Works is a formula format that describes a singular instance of technology solving a healthcare problem. What Works is most often a one- or two-page article written in the user’s voice that includes a description of the problem, the solution, the implementation and roll-out and the benefits. What Works case histories always have quantifiable results.

We use additional formats for case histories including articles bylined by the end-users, staff written articles and case histories that carry no byline. Again, the HMT editors decide which format fits an individual story best after we know the specifics.

We have detailed guidelines for those interested in pursuing case histories. E-mail one of the editors and ask for them.

Thought Leaders. Written by an industry leader, often a vendor and sometimes an end-user, this back-page feature offers a rare opportunity to editorialize on a hot technology topic. The Thought Leaders column is typically 900 to 950 words in length. Query Editor Mike McBride at mmcbride@nelsonpub.com. We have detailed Thought Leaders guidelines available. E-mail one of the editors and ask for them.

Managed Care and Health Plans Technology. Every month, HMT devotes coverage to information technology geared to payers and health plans. We cover it from a variety of angles – provider relations, provider networks, member enrollment and relations, and even technology geared toward broker and employer relations. Query Editor Mike McBride at mmcbride@nelsonpub.com.

Products and Services. Send information on products and services to Associate Editor Kristoffer Stewart at kstewart@nelsonpub.com, or send full product media kits to Mike at Health Management Technology, 2500 Tamiami Trail N., Nokomis, FL 34275. The more comprehensive the information that you send at one time, the greater the likelihood of having your product featured in this section.

Source Verification

For every article in which a user and/or vendor is identified, an HMT editor will speak personally with the user and/or the vendor before publishing the article. It is not the practice of Health Management Technology to publish articles submitted by third parties without having had personal discussions with the user and/or vendor involved.

What We Don’t Want

Articles about vendors or their products;
Articles that have been published in healthcare trade journals, newspapers, periodicals, company literature or conference proceedings;
Articles or case histories included in media kits or as collateral;
Articles posted on a vendor’s or consultant’s Web site;
“How to select a vendor” articles;
“What to look for in EMR (or decision support or security) applications” articles;
Primers or generalized treatments of IT topics.

HMT does not accept advertorial text as editorial content, but will work with vendors/advertisers who want to produce advertorial text in HMT.