[AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2014 - Successful and Sustainable Mobile and Electronic Health (mHealth/eHealth) Solutions

[Sweta Sneha]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems 
Savannah, Georgia, August 07-10, 2014 
Mini-track: Successful and Sustainable Mobile and Electronic Health (mHealth/eHealth) Solutions

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MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION:

In the wake of the 21st century healthcare 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. Mobile Health(mHealth), refers to the integration of mobile information communication and multimedia technologies towards healthcare delivery and practice. This opens the door to the possibility of pervasive anytime, anywhere, for anyone delivery of healthcare services. Although the potential for the far reaching impact of mHealth/eHealth 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, eHealth, or mHealth combined with eHealth that: (1) assess the infrastructure issues towards supporting mHealth/ eHealth; (2) propose and/or evaluate the design, development, and implementation of successful mHealth/ehealth applications; (3) assess the impact of mHealth/eHealth applications on patients, doctors, healthcare organization, and society in general; (4) develop theories to better understand the phenomenon of mHealth and eHealth; and (5) examine mobile applications and sustainability challenges across a specific population segment and/or disease; (6) assess the impact of underlying regulatory, security, and policy issues impacting the mHealth/eHealth domain; and (7) innovation in healthcare practice and delivery utilizing mobile devices.  Successful papers maybe fast tracked for a special issue in Health and Technology and /or International Journal Networking and Virtual Organizations.

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POTENTIAL TOPICS:

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
•	Assessment of intercultural challenges/opportunities associated with adoption, implementation, and usage mHealth and eHealth 
•	Telehealth in combination with mobile health.
•	Sustainable mobile health applications – population specific and/or disease specific challenges
•	Regulatory, security, and policy issues impacting the mhealth/ehealth domain
•	Innovation in healthcare practice and delivery utilizing mobile devices

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IMPORTANT DATES AND MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
 
January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions open

March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript submissions

April 4, 2014 - Author notification

The submission website is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014

More information about the conference can be found at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/


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MINI-TRACK CHAIRS:

Sweta Sneha, PhD
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University
Email:ssneha at kennesaw.edu 
	
Ton Spil, PhD
School of Management and Governance
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Email: a.a.m.spil at utwente.nl

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
email: nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au	


Warm Regards,

Sweta
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Sweta Sneha, PhD
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Coles College of Business
Kennesaw State University
Phone: 770-853-0661
Email:ssneha at kennesaw.edu
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