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havioral approaches; specifically, they concern topics such as the mobile environment, u-Health, organizational and individual barriers to information systems, user preference to monitors, and human factors in engineering. The collection of topics here is only one example of the gradual rise in interest in social factors, policy, and behavioral informatics. This trend is not only a consequence of recent focus on behavioral approaches (such as behavioral economics and behavioral politics) but is also an indicator of the growing importance of health attitude and behavior and environmental factors in one’s health. Now more than ever, people across the disciplines are realizing that behavior is a key entity in problem solving. User behavior in healthcare informatics plays an important role in promoting the appropriate use of information technologies in order to improve health and healthcare. Clearly, there is a growing need for researchers who specialize in the use of technologies by patients and healthcare providers and in the design, implementation, and evaluation of behavior change interventions delivered through advanced technologies. We are glad to know that our journal is an attempt to address this need and its implications. This issue is yet another step in the right direction. It has been three years since we transformed the Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics (JKOSMI) into Healthcare Informatics Research (HIR), and a lot has happened since then. In its first year, 2010, it was indexed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog; in its second year, in PubMed Central; and this year, we finished our application for SCOPUS. We’re also happy to share that this year, HIR was recognized as the best academic journal in Korea by The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. Now, our next goal is to apply for Science Citation Index Looking Back, Looking Forward