[AISWorld] AMCIS 2011 Call for Proposals for Mini-Tracks in the Healthcare IT Track

[Nirup Menon]

AMCIS 2011 Track: Healthcare Information Technology

Track Chairs:
      Guodong (Gordon) Gao, ggao at rhsmith.umd.edu, University of Maryland
      Nirup Menon, nmenon at gmu.edu, George Mason University
      Mark Gaynor, mgaynor at slu.edu, Saint Louis University

Information technology (IT) offers significant potential to transform almost every aspect of healthcare, and occupies a central role in recent healthcare policies across the world. However, to fully exploit the power of healthcare IT, significant challenges must be overcome. The focus of this track is on the design, implementation, adoption, and use of healthcare IT, as well as quantifying the impact of IT on clinical and financial performance at the hospital, physician, patient, and national levels.
Digitizing healthcare represents a rare and remarkable opportunity for information systems (IS) researchers, and we welcome IS studies from a variety of reference disciplines including computer science, economics, organizational behavior, public policy, software engineering, and strategy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 *  Health IT design
 *  Barriers to health IT adoption
 *  Health IT technology selection and vendor competition
 *  Implementation and adaptation processes of health IT
 *  Enablers for meaningful use of health IT
 *  Health IT's role in supporting rapid learning and decision making
 *  Health IT's impact on patient safety, medical errors, workflow, financial performance, and productivity
 *  Patient privacy and data security
 *  Health data standard and exchange
 *  Online health information
 *  Health programs and behavioral changes
 *  Quality certification, transparency, and competition among care providers 
 *  Online market mechanism design for insurance procurement and management
 *  The role of policy and regulation

Proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages long. Proposals should provide a brief one or two paragraph description of the main theme, and explain its importance and relevance to information systems research and practice. You could also list some potential topics that will be covered. Each proposal must list names and contact addresses of mini-track chair/s.

Deadline for proposal submissions: November 1, 2010 (12 midnight EST).
Proposal Submission System: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011

Thank you,

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Nirup M. Menon, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Management
MS 5F4
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Tel: 703-993-3723
Website: http://som.gmu.edu/FacultyandResearch/Bios/Faculty?identifier=nmenon