[AISWorld] "Business of Health" CFP: AmCIS 2011 mini-track

[Hossein S. Zadeh]

Apologies for cross-posting.


CALL FOR PAPERS / PARTICIPATION

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org 
)
August 4-7, 2011,  Detroid, MI, USA

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The annual Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AmCIS) is  
viewed as one of the leading conferences for presenting the broadest  
variety of research done by and for IS/IT academicians in the Western  
Hemisphere. Every year its papers and panel presentations are selected  
from over 700 submissions, and the AMCIS Proceedings are in the  
permanent collections of libraries throughout the world (http://home.aisnet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=72 
).

AmCIS is a conference of the Association for Information Systems  
(AIS), and associated with the Society for Information Management  
(SIM) and the International Academy for Information Managment (IAIM).

AmCIS is one of a few conferences that have been included in the  
ranking of academic publication outlets by the Excellence in Research  
for Australia (ERA) Initiative (http://www.arc.gov.au/era/ 
default.htm).  Indeed ERA ranks AmCIS as a Rank A publication outlet,  
the highest available conference ranking (http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm#2 
).


TRACK: Health Care IT
MINITRACK: The Business of Health

MINITRACK DESCRIPTION

As described in Connie Vance and Elaine Larson’s research, Leadership  
Research in Business and Health Care, most of the literature on health  
care and business leadership consists of anecdotal or theoretical  
discussion. Although management and leadership literature points out  
the fact that leadership styles can have a major influence on  
performance and outcomes, minimal transfer of this work to the health  
care system is evident.

The Business of Health is an essential element necessary to facilitate  
the knowledge transfer from science to the population.  Scientific  
discovery is only the first step, healthy health systems and policies  
are also an integral aspect of making sure that the science can  
deliver all the benefits it has to offer our societies.

With limited resources and capacity there is a need to ensure that  
economics, management and systems enhance our ability to deliver  
better outcomes in terms of improvements in quality of life and well- 
being.

Taking medical science from the laboratory to the patient requires  
innovative cost-effective, well-managed procedures and systems and  
this the key focus of the business of health.

Business academics working with medical scientists, health care  
professionals, and policy makers can make a real difference in terms  
of the ability to turn theory into practice to the benefit of society.  
In their extensive literature review, Vance and Larson found limited  
research on leadership and health care outcomes, such as changes in  
patient care or improvements in organizational outputs, and concluded  
that “in this era of evidence-based practice, such research, although  
difficult to conduct, is urgently needed”.

The Business of Health mini-track solicits papers that focuses on many  
traditional as well as contemporary healthcare management areas,  
including, but not limited to:
Understanding the success or failure of e-Health initiatives in  
different parts of the world
Value Driven e-health Solutions
Implementation and communication challenges of delivering health  
initiatives (e.g. vaccination)
Public health education
Patient-centered versus transaction-based healthcare services
Current or future capabilities of healthcare system to cope with  
pandemic outbreaks
Best practice models for volunteer health workers
Modeling and simulating (e.g. that of patient care processes)
Design and implementation of healthcare information systems
The business of illicit drug (e.g. tobacco or alcohol) consumption
Child health in developing countries
Economic drivers of health

SUBMISSION SITE

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011


IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submissions: February 17, 2011
Final copy due: April 21, 2011

MINITRACK CHAIRS

Hossein S. Zadeh
hossein.zadeh at rmit.edu.au

Nilmini Wickramasinghe
nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au

Brian Corbitt
brian.corbitt at rmit.edu.au

TRACK CHAIRS

Guodong Gau, University of Maryland
Nirup Menon, George Mason University

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