[AISWorld] Call for Papers - Focus Theme 'Mobile Health' for Electronic Markets

[Karen Heyden]

- Apologies for cross-postings. - 

 

 

Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers of
Electronic Markets with a focus theme section on 'Mobile Health'. The
submission deadline is October 1, 2010. The detailed CfP is copied
below.

 

We cordially invite original research contributions to the focus theme
or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from
all potential authors. Furthermore, we invites well-known scholars in
various areas of electronic markets and business networking to write a
position paper on a salient issue of their choice. Please note that
general research articles and position papers can be submitted anytime
whereas focus theme articles have to be submitted by the deadline shown
in the CfP.

 

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.

 

If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics
please contact the editorial office (editors at electronicmarkets.org).

 

With best regards,

Karen Heyden



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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

 

Call for Papers 

for Focus Theme Section on

 

 'Mobile Health'

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Guest Editors:

* Doug Vogel (City University of Hong Kong)

* Dennis Viehland (Massey University, New Zealand)

* lmini Wickramasinghe (RMIT University, Australia)

* Joseph Mula (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

 

Theme:

Mobile devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, smartphones, wireless laptops) and
wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, RFID, NFC) are now commonplace
and support a rapidly growing set of applications.  The topic of Mobile
Health (mHealth) seeks to capture the dynamics of using mobile devices
for various aspects of health.  This includes access to government
resources as well as social networking.  Interactions within as well as
between organizations, institutions, individuals and interested parties
are all relevant.  Societal as well as personal impacts are in force and
paramount to wide-ranging appeal.  Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:

 

* Mobile solutions for delivery of superior healthcare

* Management of information and knowledge in healthcare systems using
mobile devices and wireless technologies

* Designing systems and processes to incorporate mHealth solutions 

* Emergency and disaster relief systems that utilize mHealth solutions

* Evaluation and assessment of mHealth solutions 

* The role of regulations on the diffusion of e-knowledge in healthcare
using mobile devices

* Mobile techniques and tools that facilitate e-knowledge initiatives 

* Mobile user interface requirements analysis and standardisation in a
healthcare context

* Business models for mobile services in mHealth

* Convenience versus security in mHealth systems

* Implications for social change from widespread deployment of mHealth

* mParticipation: mobile interaction with public health institutions

* Mobile knowledge worker innovations in healthcare

* Usability implications for design of mHealth systems

* Mobile service platforms for healthcare

* Healthcare in the home that utilizes mobile devices or wireless
networks

* Promotion of good health and illness prevention by mobile solutions

* Adaptation of healthcare delivery and practice to enable and
facilitate more mHealth initiatives

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. All papers will be peer
reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards.

Methodological and theoretical pluralism (e.g., empirical or theoretical
work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes) is welcomed by
the journal.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section,
please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.

 

Contact addresses:

 isdoug at cityu.edu.hk

 D.Viehland at massey.ac.nz

 nilmini.work at gmail.com

 Joseph.Mula at usq.edu.au

 or editors at electronicmarkets.org

 

All papers should be original, not published elsewhere. Papers must be
submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are
available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors .

 

Important deadlines: 

* Submission Deadline: October 1, 2010

* Feedback to authors: November 24, 2010

* Revision deadline: December 15, 2010

* Acceptance decision: January 19, 2011



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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen 

Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

 

Editorial Office:

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 

c/o Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 9733600

Fax +49 341 9733612

E-mail: editors at electronicmarkets.org
<mailto:editors at electronicmarkets.org>  

http://www.electronicmarkets.org <http://www.electronicmarkets.org>  

 

Electronic Markets is published continuously online and quarterly in
print by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online). 

 

 

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