[AISWorld] Reminder: CFP First Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE 2010)

[Ritu Agarwal]

WHITE 2010
The First Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics
October 8-9, 2010, Washington, DC
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white
Chair: Ritu Agarwal
Program co-chairs: Guodong (Gordon) Gao and Jeffrey S. McCullough

Health information technology (IT) holds the potential to improve the
quality and reduce the cost of healthcare delivery. However, this potential
has yet to be realized. Significant challenges remain regarding design,
implementation, utilization, and evaluation of health IT, and there is a
compelling need for research that can inform both policymakers and
practitioners.

The Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) will expand the frontiers
of health IT research. This workshop will provide a forum for leading
researchers to disseminate their work and network within a growing and
vibrant community. WHITE will foster collaborations between academia,
government, and industry. The workshop will also offer policymakers and
practitioners the opportunity to shape the evolving health IT research
agenda. Likewise, researchers will gain insights into emerging issues of
practice and policy.

Ultimately, a full understanding of health IT and its implications can only
be gained through an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional
academic silos.  Insight into the unique challenges and opportunities that
health IT poses requires collaboration across diverse fields of research
including business, economics, health services, health informatics, and
computer science.  A key objective of WHITE is to build and nurture such as
interdisciplinary research community.

We solicit papers on a wide range of topics, including: understanding
technology adoption barriers; managing the assimilation of health IT into
workflows and organizations; quantifying the benefits of health IT
investments; designing measures and incentives for meaningful use; defining
health data standards; developing business models for health information
exchanges; and measuring how patients utilize online clinical information.

The first annual WHITE meeting will be held in Washington DC in October
8-9, 2010. The workshop will be hosted by the Center for Health Information
and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland, College Park. CHIDS (www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids) was
established in 2005, and is the first academic research center focused on
health information and decision systems in a leading business school.

Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 5 pages to
whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu by   Aug 10, 2010. The abstract can be based on
work-in-progress or work published within the past year. Abstracts will be
reviewed for novelty, rigor, and policy impact. Authors will be notified of
decisions within three weeks.

Please check http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white for further information
and updates.



Ritu Agarwal
Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4327 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL
301.405.8655 FAX
ragarwal at rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal
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