Nashville Tennessee, July 29-31, 2015

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Cluster: Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) in Healthcare, Organized by the AIS SIG-Health

Track 1: IS&T for Improving the Healthcare Process and System

Healthcare providers across a variety of healthcare settings (i.e. hospitals, ambulatory clinics, or in the home) implement information systems and technology to increase productivity, decrease costs, and improve the quality of care. Such investments can focus on EHR and their supported applications, mobile technologies and tele-health solutions, and even policy changes. Such large IS&T investment to improve healthcare processes has projected significant value gains. Unfortunately, the actual process improvements often fall short of expectations or even fail to deliver. Recognizing that significant healthcare improvements require more than just deploying IS&T, this session seeks research that investigates system-level opportunities, challenges, benefits and value achieved through the application of IS&T within healthcare processes.

The session will focus on macro-level IS&T research that provides a system-level perspective where the system is a healthcare system. We welcome multi-disciplinary projects different research methods including qualitative, quantitative, and design science approaches.

Track 2: IS&T for Improving Individuals’ Interactions with the Healthcare System

New and innovative information systems and technologies (IS&T) and associated data and applications are proliferating in the healthcare environment. These systems facilitate and improve an increasing number of health interactions through a wide variety of new technologies being developed and implemented, e.g., personal health trackers, mobile apps, sensors, EHR extensions / add-ons, personal health records, in-home support for elderly or disabled, portable devices for screening and diagnostics, and many more. These systems have far reaching consequences on the different stakeholders they touch, ranging from patients and their caregivers, to clinicians and nurses and also consumers. While intended to provide positive value, much remains unknown about the impact on the individual. Furthermore, many more improvements can be made at different decision intervals including: prevention, consultation, diagnosis, care coordination, care provision, recovery, maintenance, and end of life decisions.

This session will focus on micro-level IS&T research that provides an individual-level perspective, where the individual can be any of the stakeholders in healthcare. We are particularly interested in specific technologies, visualizations, or analytics that have been designed, tested, and evaluated for a specific healthcare context, interaction, or decision point.

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