Healthcare Technology Letters

Healthcare Technology Letters is a fully open access rapid-communication journal owned by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and published by Wiley, founded in 2014 to report advances in technologies for healthcare, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a CiteScore of 5.8.《医疗技术快报》由英国工程技术学会（Institution of Engineering and Technology）所有、Wiley 出版，2014 年创刊，是一份完全开放获取的快报类期刊，刊载面向医疗的健康技术进展，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 5.8。

Scope

• The remit is health technology at large, described on the journal page as the most recent advances in technologies for healthcare, and application value is one of the criteria used at screening.刊物范围是广义的健康技术，刊页把它表述为医疗技术的最新进展，应用价值是初筛时使用的标准之一。
• Wearable sensing and human activity recognition form a steady stream, including the encoding and classification work that turns raw accelerometer traces into reliable activity labels.可穿戴传感与人体活动识别构成稳定的稿源，其中包括把原始加速度记录转成可靠活动标签的编码与分类研究。
• Gait and movement analysis runs alongside it, with papers on walking after total knee replacement and on the muscle co-contraction that a sit-to-stand task demands.步态与运动分析与之并行，刊载全膝关节置换术后行走以及坐站转换所需肌肉共同收缩方面的论文。
• Signal and pattern processing runs through much of this content, from muscle activity recorded during a standing task to the classifiers that label a whole day of wearable data.信号与模式处理贯穿许多稿件，从站立任务中记录的肌肉活动，到给一整天可穿戴数据打标签的分类器。
• Medical image processing covers denoising, registration and reconstruction, and it reaches the security side through encryption and watermarking of images sent across e-health networks.医学图像处理涵盖去噪、配准与重建，图像水印与加密则把它带到电子健康网络的传输安全一侧。
• Image-guided intervention appears through mixed-reality work, including a head-mounted display that lets a clinician follow an endovascular procedure without continuous X-ray exposure.混合现实研究代表了影像引导介入这一方向，其中包括让临床医生在无需持续 X 射线照射的情况下跟踪血管内手术的头戴显示器。
• Physiological modelling and simulation have a place as well, for instance a detailed respiratory model used to test non-invasive ventilation settings before they are applied to patients.生理建模与仿真同样占有一席之地，例如用精细的呼吸系统模型在设置用于患者之前检验无创通气参数。
• Machine learning runs through many papers, whether the task is screening for anxiety and depression, predicting diabetes risk or watching over a cell therapy production line.机器学习贯穿许多论文，任务可以是焦虑与抑郁筛查、糖尿病风险预测或者细胞治疗生产线的监测。
• Mobile and remote monitoring platforms are a long-standing theme, from an mHealth system for Parkinson disease management to a framework that follows diabetic patients outside hospital.移动与远程监护平台是长期主题，从帕金森病管理的移动健康系统，到医院之外随访糖尿病患者的框架。
• Assistive technology attracts user-centred design studies, among them a pervasive system for people with dementia that was shaped around the daily routines of its users.辅助技术吸引以用户为中心的设计研究，其中一例是围绕使用者日常作息设计的痴呆症患者普适系统。
• Computerised decision support is another recurring subject, since a model that predicts a response only helps once a clinician can act on its output at the bedside.计算机化决策支持是另一个反复出现的主题，因为预测反应的模型只有在临床医生能根据输出在床旁采取行动之后才有用处。
• Automation and monitoring in biopharmaceutical production have entered the scope too, illustrated by an analysis of how CAR T cell manufacturing can be instrumented and supervised.生物制药生产中的自动化与监测也进入范围，一篇分析 CAR T 细胞制造如何布设监测仪表并接受监管的论文即是例证。
• Mini-reviews of up to 6,000 words map a field and state where it should go next, which gives readers a way into literatures outside their own discipline.不超过 6000 词的迷你综述梳理某一领域并指出其走向，为读者进入本专业之外的文献提供入口。
• Special issues gather work on an emerging topic, and each call is framed around a question that the collection is meant to answer.特刊围绕新兴主题汇集稿件，每份征稿都围绕该专辑要回答的问题来设定。
• Rapid communication is part of the brief, and a Letter of up to 5,000 words has to carry a complete result that other groups can build on.快速传播是办刊宗旨的一部分，不超过 5000 词的快报须给出其他团队可以继续推进的完整结果。
• Commentary, Opinion and Perspective add a discussion layer, with responses to published papers and invited pieces that weigh a technique against its alternatives.评论、观点与视角增添讨论层次，既有对已发表论文的回应，也有权衡某项技术与替代方案的约稿文章。

History

• The Institution of Engineering and Technology launched the title in 2014, and volume 1 carries that year on every article, a date the National Library of Medicine also records as the first year.英国工程技术学会于 2014 年创办该刊，第 1 卷的文章都标着这一年，美国国家医学图书馆也把 2014 年记为首年。
• Early records name Stevenage as the place of publication, the society's own base at a time when it still published its journals without a commercial partner.早期记录把出版地记为斯蒂夫尼奇，那里是学会的所在地，当时它尚未借助商业伙伴出版旗下期刊。
• One number serves the title, 2053-3713, printed in both the online and the print columns of the Wiley page because the journal reaches readers electronically.该刊只有一个编号 2053-3713，Wiley 刊页在在线与纸本两栏都印同一个号，因为刊物主要以电子方式到达读者。
• Wiley took over publication in 2021 and the current imprint reads Oxford, while the copyright line still names the Institution of Engineering and Technology as owner.Wiley 于 2021 年承接出版，现行出版地记为牛津，版权行仍以英国工程技术学会为所有者。
• Frequency has changed more than once. The library record still says four issues a year, yet volume 11 ran to six issues in 2024 and closed with a December number of pages 289 to 503.刊期调整不止一次。图书馆记录仍写作每年 4 期，而第 11 卷在 2024 年出了 6 期，12 月号的页码为 289 至 503。
• Volume 12 opened in 2025 as a single issue dated January/December, and articles now appear one at a time through the year instead of waiting for an issue to close.第 12 卷在 2025 年以标注 1 月至 12 月的单期开卷，文章在年内逐篇上线，不必等一期凑齐。
• The current model is therefore continuous publication with one volume a year, a change that came after volume 11 rather than at the founding of the journal.现行模式因此是每年一卷、连续出版，这一变化发生在第 11 卷之后，并不在创刊之初。
• A large special issue appeared inside volume 11, on big data and artificial intelligence in healthcare, with Tim Hulsen and Francesca Manni as guest editors.第 11 卷内有一期篇幅可观的特刊，主题为医疗中的大数据与人工智能，客座编辑为（Tim Hulsen）与（Francesca Manni）。
• PubMed has indexed the journal from volume 1, PubMed Central holds the full text, and the Emerging Sources Citation Index lists it in the Web of Science.PubMed 自第 1 卷起收录该刊，PubMed Central 存有全文，Emerging Sources Citation Index 将其列入 Web of Science。
• The Journal Citation Reports place it in the biomedical engineering category at rank 81 of 130, a Q3 position in the Emerging Sources Citation Index edition.期刊引证报告把它归入生物医学工程类目，130 种期刊中排第 81，在 Emerging Sources Citation Index 版次中处于 Q3。
• Impact factors over three years read 2.8 for 2023, 3.3 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, while the metrics panel on the publisher page still prints 3.3.近三年的影响因子分别为 2023 年 2.8、2024 年 3.3 与 2025 年 2.4，出版社刊页的指标栏仍印着 3.3。
• CiteScore from Scopus stands at 5.8, above the impact factor because the two measures use different citation windows, and a cited half-life of 6.2 years points to slow replacement of the literature.Scopus 的 CiteScore 为 5.8，高于影响因子，原因在于两项指标统计引用的时间窗口不同，被引半衰期 6.2 年则说明文献更替较慢。
• Output runs at about 47 articles a year and total citations reach 804, while the publisher reports an acceptance rate of 68 per cent and 28 days from submission to first decision.年发文约 47 篇，总被引 804 次，出版社公布的接收率为 68%，从投稿到首次决定约 28 天。
• Every article is open access under a Creative Commons licence and the gold route covers the whole output, so nothing is charged at submission and an article processing charge falls due only on acceptance.所有文章都以知识共享许可开放获取，金色路线覆盖全部产出，投稿环节不收费，文章处理费只在录用之后产生。

Editors

• Christopher James of the University of Warwick holds the editor-in-chief post and leads the Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine theme, which draws the school's biomedical engineering research together.主编为（Christopher James），任职于 University of Warwick，主持把该校生物医学工程研究汇聚起来的 Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine 主题。
• His own work sits in biomedical signal and pattern processing and in neural engineering, with behaviour monitoring through unobtrusive measurement as a long-running interest.他本人的研究落在生物医学信号与模式处理以及神经工程，用无感测量做行为监测是长期兴趣。
• Twenty-three associate editors carry the review load, and the names on that list come from universities and laboratories across Europe, North America and Asia.23 位副编辑分担评审工作，名单上的机构横跨欧洲、北美与亚洲。
• Gari Clifford of Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine is on that list, as are Cristian Linte of Rochester Institute of Technology and Ziv Yaniv of the National Institutes of Health.名单上有（Gari Clifford），任职于 Georgia Tech 与 Emory University School of Medicine，还有 Rochester Institute of Technology 的（Cristian Linte）与美国国立卫生研究院的（Ziv Yaniv）。
• Three associate editors come from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which gives a single institution a visible role in handling manuscripts from that region.有 3 位副编辑来自 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki，同一所机构在该地区稿件的处理上因此有了明显角色。
• Two associate editors work in China, Shouyan Wang at Fudan University and Suogang Wang at Tianjin Medical University, and Wenjin Wang represents Eindhoven University of Technology.两位副编辑在中国工作，分别是复旦大学的（Shouyan Wang）与天津医科大学的（Suogang Wang），（Wenjin Wang）则来自 Eindhoven University of Technology。
• Industry is represented too, with Charmaine Demanuele from Pfizer, James Harte from DGS Diagnostics and Emma Braithwaite from Abbott among the members.产业界同样有代表，成员包括 Pfizer 的（Charmaine Demanuele）、DGS Diagnostics 的（James Harte）与 Abbott 的（Emma Braithwaite）。
• Ten editorial board members support the associate editors, among them Daniel Abásolo of Surrey, Nigel Lovell of New South Wales, Lixu Gu of Shanghai Jiao Tong and Maryam Rettmann of Mayo Clinic.10 位编委为副编辑提供支持，阵容里有 University of Surrey 的（Daniel Abásolo）与 University of New South Wales 的（Nigel Lovell），也有 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 的（Lixu Gu）和 Mayo Clinic 的（Maryam E. Rettmann）。
• Peer review is single anonymized, so referees know who wrote a paper while authors never learn who assessed it.评审采用单盲，审稿人知道论文作者是谁，作者则始终不知道由谁评审。
• The editor-in-chief, or an editor named in his place, screens every submission, and only papers that clear the quality and relevance test go out for review.主编或由其指定的编辑对每篇投稿做初筛，只有通过质量与相关性检验的稿件才送出外审。
• An associate editor then runs the review and engages at least two anonymous referees, whose reports return to the editor rather than to the author.随后由一位副编辑主持评审，至少邀请 2 位匿名审稿人，审稿意见回到编辑手中，不直接交给作者。
• The final decision rests with the editor-in-chief for ordinary papers and special issue papers alike, which keeps one standard across the whole stream.无论普通稿件还是特刊稿件，最终决定权都在主编，整条稿流因此保持同一标准。
• Papers written by editors or board members go to editors with no tie to the author or the institution, and such cases are watched to keep bias out of the process.编辑或编委署名的稿件交给与作者及其机构没有隶属关系的编辑，这类稿件受到重点监控，以免偏见进入流程。
• Opinion and Perspective pieces are commissioned rather than submitted in the ordinary way, while a Commentary on a published paper can draw a Reply from its authors.观点与视角类文章按约稿处理，不走寻常投稿渠道，针对已发表论文的评论则可能引出原作者撰写的 Reply。
• Manuscripts arrive through ScholarOne at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/theiet-htl in free format, and the editorial office answers at theiet_htl.office@wiley.com.稿件经 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/theiet-htl 的 ScholarOne 系统提交，采用免格式投稿，编辑部联系方式印在同一份指南上。