Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, an open-access companion journal to the extensively learn and cited Mayo Clinic Proceedings, is marking its first anniversary, having printed greater than 90 articles on the digital transformation of healthcare internationally.

Authors printed in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health’s first 12 months characterize 25 international locations on 5 continents, and the content material has had greater than 125,000 downloads.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health focuses on the interpretation, adaptation and implementation of digital healthcare options. It additionally consists of articles addressing the challenges and alternatives of the digital transformation of healthcare. Among essentially the most downloaded articles printed within the first 12 months:

“It’s unusual for a new scientific journal to have impact of this magnitude during its first year,” says Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., a Mayo Clinic heart specialist and the journal’s inaugural editor-in-chief. “This is due in part to the fast growth of interest in digital health and artificial intelligence in healthcare. More importantly, it is also due to the reputation Mayo Clinic has built in this space, becoming an international beacon of rigorous development and implementation of digital health solutions.”

In an editorial to mark the one-year anniversary, Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s president and chief government officer, says the journal has helped to spark digital and platform innovation in addition to construct the belief that’s the basis of high-quality healthcare.

“In a rapidly evolving field, having access to high quality, peer-reviewed studies is essential for safe and equitable healthcare delivery, and that requires strong editorial leadership from journals such as Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health,” Dr. Farrugia says within the editorial. “It is clear that we are only at the beginning of this digital revolution for healthcare, and that we need to seize the opportunity and lead responsibly to leverage these unprecedented tools and technology for the benefit of patients everywhere.”

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