[AISWorld] JEIM - special issue on: “E-health Services"

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JOURNAL OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (JEIM)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue on: “E-health Services”



Guest Editors

Vasiliki Mantzana, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus,
 Piraeus, Greece, mantzana at unipi.gr

Marinos Themistocleous, Department of Digital Systems, University of
Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece, mthemist at unipi.gr

Vincenzo Morabito, School of Management, Bocconi University, Milan,
Italy, vincenzo.morabito at unibocconi.it

Kyriakos Souliotis, Department of Social and Education Policy,
University of Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Greece, soulioti at hol.gr



Healthcare systems consist of large and complex services that affect and
 get affected by multiple interacting actors, such as doctors, nurses,
patients, citizens, medical suppliers, health insurance providers etc,
with different backgrounds, knowledge, organisational beliefs, interests
 and culture. Nowadays, governments and organisations are trying to
improve the quality and productivity of healthcare services, enhance
human welfare, and create stronger forms of democratic government.
Moreover, healthcare actors request electronic access to advanced
services offered by healthcare organisations, including health and
prescription information and knowledge, monitoring management,
appointment scheduling and online communication. In meeting the
aforementioned demands, governments and organisations spend hundreds of
billions of dollars and countless amount of hours on developing
automated intelligent systems that support and enhance healthcare
services and processes. The service orientation relates to significant
new possibilities for developing automated intelligent systems that
support healthcare processes.
However, these efforts have resulted in healthcare systems that have
evolved in a fragmented way. The need to provide an interoperable
environment has become imperative, as the non-integrated nature of the
healthcare systems is strongly associated among others with medical
errors that occur. For instance, hard copy films are constantly lost or
unavailable and information needed for diagnosing is often missing. The
focus of this special issue is to demonstrate how ICT can aid in shaping
 the future of healthcare services through empirical and theoretical
research. General academic and professional literatures primarily focus
on using ICT to consolidate and refine healthcare business processes.
Although interesting research is published regularly in this area, it is
 clear that new approaches will be key to the future of healthcare
systems, and there is potential for many of these new ideas to arise
from the IS perspective. This special issue is seeking high quality
articles that provide rich and innovative insights on e-health services.
 Topics of special interest include (but are not limited to) the
following:

. Development and management of emerging e-health services
. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
. Electronic personal healthcare records
. Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing)
. Electronic procurement (e-procurement)
. Integration and interoperability of e-health services
. Adoption, diffusion and implementation of innovative e-health
services
. Citizen centred e-health services design
. ERP based healthcare services
. Mobile Devices and Ubiquitous Computing
. Knowledge and information management of e-health services
. Privacy, confidentiality and security issues of e-health services  .
Socio-technical aspects of e-health services
. Evaluation of e-health services
. Impact of e-health services on citizens, patients, organisations  and
governments
. Case studies and best practices


This call for special issue seeks manuscripts utilizing diverse research
 approaches, including theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative
research methods. Authors are strongly encouraged to contact the editors
 via e-mail to ascertain fit of their work with the special issue in
advance of the submission deadline. Abstracts of proposed papers should
be sent to Vasiliki Mantzana at mantzana at unipi.gr. Manuscript
submissions should be between 3000 and 5000 words in length, with all
contributions being subjected to a double blind review process.
Abstracts as well as papers should be sent electronically to
mantzana at unipi.gr with a note that the submission is for this special
issue. Please check
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jeim
for author guidelines including format and style.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
September 15, 2010 Abstract submission deadline
November 1, 2010 Paper submission deadline
December 15, 2010 Final notification of acceptance
January 15, 2010 Final submission