[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 Mini-Track: Successful and Sustainable eHealth and mHealth Solutions

[Sweta Sneha]

Call for Papers
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 
August 9-12, 2012, Seattle, WA, USA

Track: "IS in Healthcare"

Mini-Track: “Successful and Sustainable eHealth and mHealth Solutions”

In the wake of the 21st century healthcares systems around the globe are faced with the aggravating challenge of providing quality healthcare to an aging populace, exponential rise in healthcare costs (approximately 17% of GDP in US), and, limited financial as well as human resources. eHealth succinctly stated refers to the application of ICTS (information communication technologies) to effect superior healthcare delivery while mHealth, refers to the integration of mobile information communication and multimedia technologies towards enabling superior healthcare delivery and practice. Although the potential of the far reaching impact by eHealth/mHealth is indisputable, the challenge lies in realizing the vision. The objective of this mini-track is to address these challenges by soliciting work-in-progress and completed research papers covering technical, organizational, behavioral, economical, and managerial perspectives on mHealth and/or ehealth that: (1) assess the infrastructure issues towards supporting mHealth/ eHealth, (2) propose and/or evaluate the design, development, and implementation of mHealth/ehealth applications, (3) assess the impact of mHealth/eHealth applications - including identifying key barriers and facilitators - for patients, health care providers, healthcare organizations, regulators, payers, and society in general, and (4) develop theories to better understand the phenomena of mHealth and eHealth.

Please note that selected papers will be fast tracked for possible publication in either Health and Technology journal http://www.springer.com/engineering/biomedical+eng/journal/12553  published by Springer or Intl J Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET) www.inderscience.com/ijbet published by InderScience.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following areas:
•	Internet and networked solutions for superior healthcare delivery 
•	Technology use to better manage healthcare data/information/knowledge
•	Business modeling in healthcare
•	Wired and/or wireless healthcare initiatives
•	The management of information and knowledge in integrated healthcare systems 
•	Adoption and evaluation of mHealth/ eHealth applications
•	Designing healthcare organizations, systems and processes to incorporate mHealth/ehealth solutions 
•	Electronic medical records (EMR)
•	MHealth/Ehealth and emergency and disaster relief 
•	Evaluation and assessment of ehealth solutions 
•	The role of regulations on the diffusion of e-knowledge in healthcare 
•	Techniques and tools that facilitate e-knowledge initiatives for healthcare
•	Knowledge management in joint, large scale (national/international) healthcare operations
•	Privacy, security, and trust issues with adoption and usage of ubiquitous healthcare applications

Submission Procedures: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012

Important Dates

• January 2, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
• March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions
• April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
• April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due


Mini-Track Chairs:
Ton Spil, PhD
School of Management and Governance
University of Twente
PO Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 53 4893497
Email: a.a.m.spil at utwente.nl

Sweta Sneha, PhD
Department of Information Systems
Coles College of Business
Kennesaw State University 
Kennesaw GA 
USA
Phone: 770-853-0661 
Email:ssneha at kennesaw.edu 
Website: http://csis.kennesaw.edu/ssneha/

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
School of Business IT and Logistics
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne VIC 3001
AUSTRALIA
phone: +61 3 9925 5783 (direct)
fax: + 61 3 9925 5850
email: nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au