http:\/\/jais.aisnet.org\/HealthCareIT.asp<\/p>\n
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Health Care IT: Process… People and Patients<\/p>\n
Guest Editors
\nFay Cobb Payton, Fay_payton@ncsu.edu
\nGuy Pare, guy.pare@hec.ca
\nMadhu Reddy, mreddy@ist.psu.edu
\nCynthia LeRouge, lerougec@slu.edu<\/p>\n
Effectiveness and efficiency of Health Care Information and Management Systems (HIS) will become one of the main challenges in health care in the next decade. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006), significant improvements are being made in healthcare due to information and communication technologies (ICT). eHealth innovations like electronic health records, computer-assisted prescription systems and clinical databases are transforming health today, and hold even greater promise for the future. ICT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s support clinical care, patient education, facilitates scientific advancement of the field, and improves the work flow of various functions in the healthcare. Success in utilizing these systems is predicated on such issues as understanding the wide array of users and their unique needs while developing systems, investigating, documenting and analyzing the impact of eHealth on the users and the broader community of service providers and promoting better understanding of the impact of better information on health service outcomes by disseminating information and improving accessibility to health care information.<\/p>\n
The HIS domain is intrinsically interdisciplinary, and the Information Systems (IS) community has a key role in its advancement. The IS discipline is well positioned to conduct research that contributes toward the health care goals of improving the capabilities of physicians, clinical staff, health care consumers and public health workers by systematically investigating the impact of context on existing IS theories and models as they relate to health care issues. In addition, the nuances in the health care context provide a rich environment from which to develop new theory as well as extend the existing IS theories (Chiasson and Davidson, 2007). Yet, little research in top-tier IS journals currently is directed toward Health Care Information and Management Systems (HIS). Existing health care and medical informatics journals make valuable contributions to advancing the design and use of ICT in the health care context. In particular. they have served well in documenting existing practices and experiences and results of the use of technology but generally they do not contribute to significant theory building and in particular, formulation of new IS theories. Applying strong theoretical perspectives into existing and emerging electronic practices of HIS will facilitate the opening of the black box of technology and leading to a better understanding of how, why and under what circumstances theory can guide the implementation, use and acceptance of ICTs in the health care context. Furthermore, new theories are needed in accounting for emerging and new phenomena in these environments and to inform IS theory development in general.<\/p>\n
In this special issue JAIS seeks to address the future research challenges of HIS through application and extension of IS and related theories. This special issue will give particular consideration to articles that integrate literatures, approaches, and findings related to technology in health care across related disciplines. To this end the special issue will solicit high quality Healthcare-IS papers that apply and extend theory within and across information systems, sociology, health informatics, medicine, health policy research, health economics and other fields that are rarely bridged in published studies. We seek open dialogue and knowledge sharing among these disciplines. Recent special issues in leading IS journals such as ISR (http:\/\/www.informs.org\/site\/ISR\/article.php?id=124) address some health informatics topics. By advocating multi-disciplinary and integrated approach, the special issue hopes to expand and draw upon these studies by carefully incorporating ideas and theories from related disciplines. To facilitate this integrated perspective, the editorial board of this special issue represents researchers from multiple disciplines that have an interest in health information systems. Therefore, each submitted paper will be subjected to a review by a review panel composing of scholars from information system and other related disciplines, when appropriate.<\/p>\n
Papers can address any issue related to users, design, acceptance, use, workflow, organizational structure, evaluation, cost benefits, and diffusion of HIS. The issue also solicits papers that investigate human behaviours toward the use of information technology within a health care environment, benefits and impacts of information technology, organizational change management and human and ethical concerns related to into information technology projects in health care. Theory development using techniques such as grounded theory are welcome as well as papers that advance and offer new insights into existing theories such as those in the compendium of theories used in IS research ( see e.g. at http:\/\/www.istheory.yorku.ca\/). HIS related theoretical pursuits can include, but are not limited to the following:<\/p>\n
Regional and Community Health Information Networks
\nTelemedicine and Tele-Applications
\nSocio-technical aspects of HIS
\nElectronic Medical Records
\nMobile Devices and Ubiquitous Computing
\nData Quality and Management of Clinical Data
\nHIS Technology Innovations in a Global Context
\nUse of Technology to Address Public Health and Policy
\nHealth Care Website Assessment and Effectiveness
\nConsumer Centric Design of Home Health Innovations
\nPatient-centered applications impacting patient\/physician interaction
\nHIS for patient support and social inclusion
\nHuman-Computer Interaction and Usability Issues in HIS
\nThe manuscripts can utilize diverse research approaches, including conceptual or theoretical argument as well as rigorous empirical work that advance or propose theory using qualitative and\/or quantitative research methods (including case studies and surveys). All contributions will be subjected to a double-blind review process in line with JAIS editorial policies.<\/p>\n
By collaborating with scholars coming from multiple organizations, the special issue seeks also to capture the interest of national and international health care IS scholars from a myriad of domains, including medical schools, nursing, social sciences, informatics, public policy, communications, etc. Therefore, the AIS Special Interest Group on Healthcare ( http:\/\/www.aissighealth.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2), American Medical Informatics Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s People and Organizational Issues (POI) Workgroup ( http:\/\/www.amia.org\/mbrcenter\/wg\/poi\/index.asp), International Medical Informatics Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Organizational and Social Issues Workgroup ( http:\/\/www.imia.org\/Action.Lasso?-Response=WG_profile.html&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=12&-Database=organizations&-SortField=workgroup_SIG&-SortOrder=ascending&type=WGSIG) and IEEE Medical Technology Workgroup (http:\/\/www.ieeeusa.org\/volunteers\/committees\/mtpc\/) have agreed to serve as sponsors of this special issue and will provide excellent sources for paper submissions and reviewers.<\/p>\n
The topics appropriate for the submission will be discussed at ECIS 2008 in Galway during SIG-Health sponsored activities. POI and IEEE will promote the special issue via their organizational websites and ongoing activities, such as tele-meetings. The potential submissions can be prepared by utilizing the AMCIS 2008 SIG-Health track in Toronto which consists of 7 mini tracks. The mini track chairs will be asked to select conference papers that could be further developed for consideration in this special issue. During the annual SIG-Health meeting at AMCIS 2008, this call will be discussed and potential paper submissions will be discussed. Potential authors are invited to attend this meeting.<\/p>\n
Authors are strongly encouraged to contact the special issue editors via e-mail to ascertain fit of their work with the special issue in advance of the submission deadline. Interested authors should submit a one-page abstract of their proposed paper to Fay Cobb Payton at fay_payton@ncsu.edu by August 1, 2009. Full-paper submissions should be between 4000-6000 words in length. Submissions should include a separate title page giving the names and addresses of the authors. Manuscripts must be sent electronically to fay_payton@ncsu.edu, together with 1-5 keywords and an abstract of approximately 150-200 words. Please check the website at http:\/\/jais.aisnet.org\/format.asp for author guidelines including format and style.<\/p>\n
Papers will receive an initial screening, and only those papers that are deemed to have a reasonable chance of acceptance in an accelerated review process will remain under consideration.<\/p>\n
IMPORTANT DEADLINES AMCIS 2008 SIG-Health Annual Meeting will discuss Special issue and expectations
\nAugust 2009 Abstract Deadline
\nJanuary 15, 2010 Final submissions
\nApril 30, 2010 Review decisions
\nAugust 1, 2010 Revised papers due
\nOctober 2010 Notification of acceptance
\nDecember 2010 Camera ready submission<\/p>\n
Editorial board of the special issue:<\/p>\n
Ronald Spanjers, Catharina Hospital \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Netherlands
\nVance Wilson, The University of Toledo
\nHelen Richardson, University of Salford
\nNilmini Wickramasinghe, Illinois Institute of Technology
\nBonnie Kaplan, Yale University
\nMike Chiasson, Lancaster University
\nPhilip Musa, University of Alabama-Birmingham
\nMonica Garfield, Bentley College
\nBengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
\nTon Spil, BBT University of Twente, The Netherlands
\nAwie Leonard, University of Pretoria, South Africa
\nSharon Tan, The National University of Singapore
\nFrancis Lau, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
\nSamir Chatterjee, Claremont Graduate University
\nDonal Flynn, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
\nEric Monteiro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
\nPascale Lehoux, University of Montreal, Canada
\nNelson King, American University of Beirut
\nWendy Currie, University of Warwick
\nPatrick Y.K. Chau, The University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n
References
\nChiasson, M. W., & Davidson, E. (2004). Pushing the contextual envelope: Developing and diffusing IS theory for health information systems research. Information and Organization, 14(3), 155-188.
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\nAnn Fruhling, PhD
\nafruhling@unomaha.edu
\nResearch Director for STATPack,
\nwww.statpack.org<\/p>\n
Director, Center for Public Health Informatics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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