This new online only subscription based journal will add to BMJ’s growing stable of international titles, under the editorship of Prof. Balram Bhargava at AIIMS, with an international team assisting him.
The idea behind the launch of this journal is to promote innovative research which creates new, cost effective medical devices, services and platforms that improve patient care, with particular focus on the needs of patients, physicians, and the health care industry as a whole and to act as a platform to catalyse and seed more innovations.
Currently clinicians and researchers look at journals within their specialty and at information in the public domain for advancements in technology. They look at Clinical Trial registries for clinical trials in progress and browse through patent filings from Patent & Trademark offices of different countries. The biggest challenge they face is having research submitted that focuses on innovation, says BMJ.
The Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Innovations, Prof Balram Bhargava of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, mentioned; “Medical innovations have a new address - BMJ Innovations. We are confident that BMJ Innovations will serve as a melting-pot of ideas that will spark further innovations for improving healthcare globally.”
Talking about the journal, Mr Anand Ekambaram, Managing Director, BMJ India, said; “BMJ Innovations will focus on innovations in devices, technologies, mobile health and processes. It would provide a very fertile ground for cross-pollination of ideas and will be the perfect voice for medical innovations, a melting-pot of interdisciplinary specialties. We look forward to collaborating with a team of experts who will lead this initiative from India.”
Commenting on the announcement, BMJ Publishing Director, Peter Ashman, said: “BMJ is committed to promoting innovation in healthcare to help improve outcomes for patients throughout the world. We are very proud that AIIMS has chosen to collaborate with BMJ to launch such an important new journal and we look forward to working with Professor Bhargava and his team in this exciting area of medicine.”
The editorial team from India will comprise representatives from Public Health Foundation of India, IIT Delhi, Stanford BioDesign India, and Narayana Hrudayalaya Group of Hospitals. They will be joined by an international board of other researchers and experts in innovation covering the US, Singapore, UK, and Australia to fully embrace the global programme and appeal to a wider international audience.
The new journal will launch in December 2014.
