It is published by De Gruyter and the editor-in-chief is Prof. Eric J.G.

Sijbrands (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam).

It was established in 2006 as the Central European Journal of Medicine, co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media.

In 2014 the journal was moved to De Gruyter.

It obtained its current name in 2015 when it became open access.