[AISWorld] CFP HICSS-46 Mini-track on Technology Mediated Collaborations in Healthcare

[Souren Paul]

Call for Papers:
Technology Mediated Collaborations in Healthcare
Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track
Forty-sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January 7-10, 2013)
Grand Wailea, Maui
 
Mini-track Co-Chairs:
 




Souren Paul
Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences
Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
USA
Phone: + 1 (954) 262-2047
Fax: + 1 (954) 262-3915
spaul at nova.edu

Arkalgud Ramaprasad
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street, MC 294
Chicago, IL 60607-7124
USA
Phone: +1 (312) 996-9260
Fax: +1 (312) 413-0385
prasad at uic.edu

Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth HealthCare
SBITL & HIRI
RMIT University
Building 108 Level 17
239 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 2000
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9925 5783
Fax: +61 3 9925 5850
nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au
 
Proposed area of the mini-track:
Today most countries are faced with exponentially increasing costs for healthcare delivery coupled with challenges of changing demographics as well as an increase in chronic diseases. There is a growing need to deliver more effective and efficient healthcare.  To address this situation we are witnessing the application of various eHealth solutions to support superior healthcare delivery. All these efforts represent applications of collaboration technologies.
In the light of these healthcare reforms collaboration technologies are being used in research, practice, and management.  They have potential for even greater use. Geographically dispersed health professionals can use collaboration technology to communicate with each other, review patient records, manage workflows, and improve the delivery of patient care.  Similarly, geographically non-collocated researchers can collaborate with each other. The problem being addressed by this mini-track is encapsulated in the attached ontology. 
The five primary stakeholders in healthcare: researchers, clinicians, nurses, patients, and administrators form the basis of any partnership in health care. They are listed under the two partnership sub-dimensions. Software Agents/Bots which are playing an increasing independent role in the delivery of healthcare have been added to the list of partners.   A partnership may be between two researchers, a researcher and a clinician, a patient and a nurse, etc. These dyads are summarized by the two columns under partners. There may also be triadic and higher order partnerships among these partners. 
The partnerships may be based on an exchange of data, analysis, diagnosis, or treatment singly or in combination. These are listed under the content dimension of the ontology. Thus collaboration between two researchers may use data, between a patient and a nurse may be for diagnosis or treatment, and so on.
The Media for partnership may be Personal, Social, Mass, or Institutional. The ontology lists the key media in healthcare in each of the categories.  Thus, for example, researchers may exchange analysis via personal media, patients may exchange treatments via social media, and clinicians and administrators may exchange data via institutional media. 
The purpose of the collaboration may be care, research, administration, education or a combination of the four. These are listed under the purpose dimension of the ontology. Thus collaboration between two researchers using data may be for research, and between a patient and a clinician may be for diagnosis for care. 
In the above ontology, there are a very large number of basic types of collaborations one can consider in healthcare. The number will change if the dimensions and categories are modified. In a practical context multiple combinations will likely coexist. A clinician-patient collaboration using data via individual media for care may be supplemented by a nurse-patient collaboration using social media for education.
Technology’s impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of these collaborations will be determined by the architecture of the technology, the systems developed around it, and the strategy for implementing it. The efficacy of the architecture will determine the efficacy of the system, and the efficacy of the system will determine the efficacy of the strategy. Thus the three categories under the technology dimension in the ontology.
The ontology provides a framework for fitting the pieces of the puzzle, synthesizing what is known, determining the gaps, and directing future research on the topic. Moreover, it serves to provide a framework for facilitating the design and implementation of successful eHealth solutions. We invite papers focusing any one or many of the innumerable combinations in the ontology. Further, we welcome papers which address the state-of-the-art, state-of-the-need, and the state-of-the-practice of these combinations.
We strongly encourage authors to submit original contributions where innovative ideas, implementations, and empirical studies are described.  The technological contributions can highlight applications, systems, and methodological issues on the development and/or implementation of collaborative systems in healthcare.  The social, organizational, and behavioral contributions can report the outcome of empirical studies on technology mediated collaboration in healthcare.  
Submission Process:
Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the HICSS on-line submission system at http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm  by June 15, 2012.  Papers should not exceed ten pages and the initial submission will not have author names. Please check the above web site or contact the mini-track co-chairs for more information.
Key Dates:
Full Papers Due: June 15, 2012 (midnight Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2012
Final Paper Due: September 15, 2011 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone).  At least one author of each paper should register by this date. This is the Early Registration fee deadline.
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