AIS SIG-Health

Deadline

All manuscripts should be submitted by no later than June 30, 2013. All papers should be submitted to the submission system at ees.elsevier.com/ecra, via the ‘SI: eHealth’ option at the ‘Article Type’ step in the submission process. For more details visit ECRA website at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com.

Link to CFP: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications/call-for-papers/ehealth-and-healthcare-service-transformation/.

Background

With the pervasive nature of Internet-based technologies, healthcare services are undergoing significant transformation wherein both providers and consumers have access to information for making informed decisions yielding the best possible outcomes. On the one hand, providers are adopting or upgrading to state-of-the-art IT, aiming to improve organizational efficiency, access to care, and quality of care delivered, which lead to improved well-being for patients as consumers. For example, community-based behavioral healthcare providers have been adopting web-based innovations to enhance patient engagement and to help people with substance abuse and behavioral issues. These people otherwise may not have access to healthcare services or are reluctant to seek help in traditional channels for care. At the same time, the ongoing liberation of healthcare data to bring it into the public domain has energized technology vendors, healthcare systems, start-ups, and researchers to develop new applications, tools and products that can harness big health data to improve provider-level clinical decision-making. On the other hand, advances in technological solutions, such as mobile apps, are expected to empower consumers to interact with their care providers more effectively, engage in shared medical decision-making with providers, and access relevant information to manage their health better. Finally, innovative applications of information technology will have substantial impacts on improved management of the health of large populations of people and key social groups who are at risk, and also for improving public agencies’ capabilities for responding effectively to emergency situations.

Purpose

This special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), expected in early 2014, seeks to publish leading-edge research that investigates how technological and methodological advances are reshaping and transforming the healthcare sector. It will examine how recent and emerging technological and marketplace developments support innovative business and organizational models to meet the challenges of improved healthcare delivery.

Guest Editors

This call for papers will yield one special issue that will be developed and co-edited by:

• Ajit Appari, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA, ajit.appari@dartmouth.edu
• Xia Zhao, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, x_zhao3@uncg.edu
• The sponsoring editor for this special issue is Robert J. Kauffman, ECRA’s Editor-in-Chief.

Topics

The special issue seeks analytical, empirical, experimental, and case study-based research that contributes to theory building, and should have practical implications. Relevant topics include:

• Challenges & opportunities in health information exchanges for healthcare services provision and population health
• Data-driven methods to improve healthcare service operations and patient treatment
• Economics of information security and privacy in healthcare services
• Electronic communities and online social networks for providers, patients and consumers
• Impacts of public and private infrastructure, and health info exchanges on the healthcare market
• IT-enabled mechanisms that improve the healthcare delivery process
• Market-based competition for online healthcare services
• Modeling coordination issues among healthcare stakeholders in the e-health record environment
• Roles of emerging technologies and infrastructure, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and wearable devices
• Roles of IS in engaging patients in effective medical decision-making processes
• Roles of IS in improving healthcare service quality and reducing clinical errors
• Roles of IS in improving intraorganizational and interorganizational clinical supply chains

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Xia Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
Phone: (336) 256-8588
Email: x_zhao3@uncg.edu

* More information can be found here: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ichi2013/call-for-demos.htm

Scope of the Demo Track

We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the demo track of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013).

The ICHI demo track is an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate your healthcare informatics system or application. Because of ICHI’s focus on end-to-end systems, whereby applied informatics is used to address the needs of health and healthcare applications, demos of innovative systems are solicited, which illustrate practical research or engineering contributions in an interesting and interactive manner.

The demo program will be featured prominently in the conference program and should be seen as a vehicle for researchers, practitioners, and commercial/industrial/non-profit institutions to showcase innovative new technologies or applications in health informatics.

The demo review process will look for practical uses of technology and also for a “wow” factor in all submissions. We encourage the description of prototypes as long as they clearly present a coherent, end-to-end view of what the application might become once it gets deployed in production.

A submission proposal includes a demo paper and can optionally include a demo video, whose URL should be referred to in the textual demo description for reviewers to take into consideration when analyzing the submission. Note that the demo paper should differ from regular papers in several important aspects. First, it should clearly describe the overall architecture of the system or technology demonstrated. Second, the paper should put great emphasis on the motivation of the work, on the applications of the presented system or technology, and on the novelty of the work. Third, the proposal should clearly describe the demo scenario. In particular, it should describe how the demo audience can interact with the demo system, to better understand the underlying technology. For demos running over the web, a back-up scenario should be described, in case connectivity is limited at the demo venue.

All topics described in the Call for Papers are eligible for demo track submissions.

What Should Be Submitted

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines:

• The author(s) name and affiliation(s) must be present in the submitted document. Any submitted demo proposal violating the length, file type, or formatting requirements will be rejected without review.
• Papers must adhere to the IEEE Proceedings Format available for LaTex and Word. Changing the template’s font size, margins, inter-column spacing, or line spacing is prohibited. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5″ x 11″ paper.
• The length of submission is 4 pages. This page limit includes all parts of the proposal: title, abstract, body, and bibliography.

The optional demo video should focus on illustrating the demo scenario and the interactive nature of the demo system. The video must be no more than three minutes in length and should start by clearly identifying the authors and title of the proposal. The video should be in common video format (e.g., MPEG, AVI), and should be playable on a wide variety of media players. We strongly encourage authors to produce and submit a demo video that will be linked off of the final program on the conference website (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo).

The notification for acceptance of demo papers is the same as that for regular papers. Accepted demo proposals will appear in the final proceedings.

Important Dates

• Demo paper submission deadline: March 18, 2013 11:59pm EST
• Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2013 11:59pm EST
• Camera-ready copy due: June 17, 2013 11:59pm EST