Health Policy and Technology


Health Policy and Technology is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal that was established in 2012 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, for which it is one of two official journals, the other being the Postgraduate Medical Journal. It covers health policy and development, assessment of clinical and cost effectiveness, and implementation of all types of medical technology, including, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and eHealth platforms. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Social Science Citation Index, and Embase. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.225.

Conferences

The journal has organised conferences in partnership with the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. In 2017, the journal, the Fellowship, and the Cardiovascular Research Trust, jointly held a conference in London on health policy for preventing heart disease. In June 2019, the journal and the Fellowship organised a conference on European Cooperation in Healthcare at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.