Informatics for Health and Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care and digital health; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus.

The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems.

Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social, cultural and ethical aspects.

Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation of systems targeting individuals, families and communities are particularly welcome.

The journal aims to highlight both successes and failures of health information technology and discuss aspects of social justice and health equity and how these may inform the design of person-centered systems for health and social care.

Informatics for Health and Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Biomedical, Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data are collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalized, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.

The overriding goal of the Journal is to show how informatics contributes to the better delivery of care through the presentation of high-quality material, irrespective of whether it is oriented towards research or practice.