[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Theory Driven Interventions in Healthcare - IJUDH (Deadline Extended)

[Saptarshi Purkayastha]

Calls for Papers (special): International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare
(IJUDH)
Special Issue On: Theory-driven Interventions in Health care using Health
Information Systems
http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-user-driven-healthcare/41022

Submission Due Date
2/1/2013 (*Extended to 1st March, 2013*)

*Guest Editors*
Saptarshi Purkayastha, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Knut Staring, University of Oslo, Norway

*Introduction*
Theory-driven evaluation came to prominence only a few decades ago with the
appearance of Chen’s 1990 book Theory-Driven Evaluations. Since that time,
the approach has attracted many supporters as well as detractors. At its
core, theory-driven evaluation has two vital components, one conceptual,
one empirical. Conceptually, theory-driven evaluations should explicate a
program theory or model. Empirically, theory-driven evaluations seek to
investigate how programs cause intended or observed outcomes.

Yet, limiting theory to evaluations is somewhat futile, because usually
some theory as basis for a “hypothesis” (unless the research is using a
grounded approach) is what drives interventions in the first place. For
instance, some health information system (HIS) interventions aim to provide
information about health system practices towards meeting the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). A great number of theoretical lenses drive
Information Systems (IS) interventions, and there have been attempts at
collecting overviews of such theories, e.g., http://istheory.byu.edu.
However, even though that list is quite comprehensive, it is not exhaustive
– for example, it leaves out important perspectives from design science and
information infrastructure theory.

In this special issue we seek to showcase papers that are driven by theory
– in planning, in action, in diagnosis and in evaluations. Theory-driven
interventions is used here to distinguish from report-style papers,
position papers or papers that draw concepts purely from observations
without theoretical basis prior to intervention.

*Objective*
The special issue would like to highlight studies in HIS that focus on
doing IS interventions with a theory in mind or with knowledge
building/testing in mind. The studies in the special issue would like to
explain the phenomenon of IS intervention through IS theory, yet allow
medical researchers/practitioners to connect with them. These studies will
help medical informaticians or public health practitioners to realize the
importance of existing abstracted knowledge (theory) and consider
appropriate theoretical lenses for HIS interventions.

*Recommended Topics*
Suggested topics for discussion include (but are not limited to) the
following:

 - Participatory action-research as a bottom up strategy to problem solving
and achieving change in healthcare
 - Distinguishing end-users from super-users and theorizing their views in
HIS
 - Institutionalization of IS within healthcare practices
 - Design science perspectives on HIS
 - Interventions that deal with structures in health systems and their
evolution
 - Efforts at scaling interventions and information infrastructure
 - Quantity of knowledge absorption, quantity of knowledge transfer,
innovation in HIS
 - User satisfaction, performance, perception, behavior, usage as in
Cognitive dissonance theory
 - Dynamics of social construction and performance of illness through
user-driven healthcare practices
 - Capabilities, absorptive capacity, environmental turbulence, agility as
in Dynamic Capabilities Theory
 - Resource Importance, Alternatives, Discretion as in Resource Dependency
Theory
 - Speech acts, Communicative action as in Language Action Perspectives
when HIS systems capture patient narratives or clinician notes or
communication in health systems
 - Fit-Viability Model of IS interventions on Health systems
 - Bridging the gap between what we know and what is knowable in clinical
practice

*Submission Procedure*
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers (over email to
the guest editors) for this special theme issue on or before *March 1, 2013*.
All submissions must be original and should not be under review by another
publication. Interested authors should consult the journal’s guidelines for
the manuscript submissions at:
http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf.
Submitted papers should not be more than 8000 words inclusive of abstract,
tables and references. All submitted papers will be reviewed by 2 reviewers
on a double-blind basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference
citations.

*We also request interested authors to send an abstract as soon as possible
for discussion.*

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Saptarshi Purkayastha
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Guest Editor
E-mail: saptarsp at idi.ntnu.no

Knut Staring
University of Oslo, Norway
E-mail: knutst at ifi.uio.no
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