[AISWorld] Last Reminder: CFP for ECRA Special Issue on eHealth and Healthcare Service Transformation

Appari, Ajit Ajit.Appari at uth.tmc.edu
Tue Jun 18 21:38:04 EDT 2013


Dear Colleagues,

Submission Deadline: 06/30/2013 
Journal: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications:
Special Issue Theme: eHealth and Healthcare Service Transformation

My colleague Dr. Xia Zhao (at UNC Greensboro) and me would like to send out this gentle reminder on the fast approaching due date for submission 
of manuscripts to ECRA special special issue on "eHealth and Healthcare Service Transformation". 


The details of the Call for Papers are available at the journal website:  
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications/call-for-papers/ehealth-and-healthcare-service-transformation/


This special issue of ECRA seeks to publish leading-edge research that investigates how technological and methodological advances are reshaping and 
transforming the healthcare sector. It will examine how recent and emerging technological and marketplace developments support innovative business 
and organizational models to meet the challenges of improved healthcare delivery.

The special issue seeks analytical, empirical, experimental, and case study-based research that contributes to theory building, and should have practical 
implications for improving healthcare delivery. Interdisciplinary studies that are relevant to e-commerce in healthcare are especially welcome. 

Relevant topics include: 

-   Challenges and opportunities in health information exchanges for healthcare services provision and population health
-   Data-driven methods to improve healthcare service operations and patient treatment
-   Economics of information security and privacy in healthcare services
-   Electronic communities and online social networks for providers, patients and consumers
-   Impacts of public and private infrastructure, and health info exchanges on the healthcare market
-   IT-enabled mechanisms that improve the healthcare delivery process
-   IT-enabled workplace wellness programs
-   Market-based competition for online healthcare services
-   Modeling coordination issues among healthcare stakeholders in the e-health record environment
-   Roles of emerging technologies and infrastructure in healthcare, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and wearable devices
-   Roles of IS in engaging patients in effective medical decision-making processes
-   Roles of IS in improving healthcare service quality and reducing clinical errors
-   Roles of IS in improving intraorganizational and interorganizational clinical supply chains

With Best Regards,
Ajit
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Ajit Appari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Management, Policy and Community Health
University of Texas School of Public Health
1200 Pressler St., RAS W-310
Houston, Texas 77030
Office: +1(713) 500-9428
Email: Ajit.Appari at uth.tmc.edu 



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