[AISWorld] CFP: 5th Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE 2014)

Wed Apr 30 01:13:15 EDT 2014

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

*WHITE 2014*

*The 5th Annual Workshop on Health IT & Economics*

October 10-11th, Washington, DC

 http://ter.ps/white2014

Chair: Ritu Agarwal

Program co-chairs: Guodong (Gordon) Gao and Jeffrey S. McCullough

We are pleased to announce the call for submissions to the 5th Annual
Workshop on Health IT & Economics (WHITE).Driven by the continuing
digitization of medical information, rapid innovations in technology, and
the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the landscape of healthcare
is changing dramatically. New challenges emerge every day regarding the
design, management, utilization, and evaluation of health IT to support the
mission of improving quality and reducing costs. They represent
unprecedented research opportunities that have the potential to influence
both policymakers and practitioners.

WHITE is a health IT summit that gathers prominent scholars in a
multidisciplinary setting. Inaugurated in 2010, each year WHITE attracts
over 100 scholars and thought leaders from more than 40 institutions. This
workshop provides a forum for researchers to disseminate their work and
network within a growing and vibrant community. WHITE also fosters
collaborations between academia, government, and industry.

We solicit papers on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to,
the following: health IT adoption barriers; assimilation of health IT into
workflows and organizations; impacts of health IT investments; measures and
incentives for meaningful use; business models for health information
exchange; IT-enabled new organization forms and delivery processes; market
competition and health insurance exchange; health 2.0 and empowering
patients; quality transparency and public reporting; as well as big data
and medical analytics.

The 5th Annual WHITE will be held in Washington DC, center of health policy
debates, on October 10-11th, 2014. The conference is hosted by the Center
for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business of University of Maryland. CHIDS (
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids) was established in 2005, and is the first
academic research center focused on health information and decision systems
in a leading business school. Partial support for WHITE is provided by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 5 pages (11-point font,
one-inch margins on four sides, double-spaced) to
whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.eduby Aug 15th, 2014. Authors may also submit
full papers, in addition to the
abstract. Submissions will be reviewed for novelty, rigor, and policy
impact.

This year WHITE will give awards for Best paper, Best student-authored
paper, and Young researcher. The latter two awards are given to papers with
either a student or junior researcher as the lead author. To be considered
for the awards, full papers should be submitted to
whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu by Sep 15th, 2014.

Please check http://ter.ps/white2014 for further information and updates,
as well as opportunities to become a sponsor for the workshop. If you are
new to WHITE, programs and photo albums of previous years are available on
the website for your perusal. We look forward to your participation.

Note: WHITE does not assume copyright over work accepted for presentation.

*Best regards and hope to see you in October! WHITE 2014 Program Team*

Ritu Agarwal (Chair)

Gordon Gao (Co-Chair)

Jeff MCullough (Co-Chair)

Kenyon Crowley (Program Director)

Faye Baker (Conference Coordinator)

*The Workshop on Health IT & Economics is partially supported by the United
States Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)*

*About CHIDS*

The Center for Health Information & Decision Systems
(CHIDS)<http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/center-health-information-decision-systems/initiatives-programs/workshops-white>
is
an academic research center in the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland at College Park. CHIDS works in collaboration with
industry, clinical and government partners to develop solutions to the
challenges surrounding the design, adoption and integration of information
technologies into the health system. The research at CHIDS seeks to
understand how digital technologies can be more effectively deployed to
address outcomes such as patient safety, healthcare quality, efficiency in
healthcare delivery, and a reduction in health disparities. CHIDS draws on
the expertise of the Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
Department (DO&IT) at the Smith School and affiliates at the University of
Maryland Schools of Engineering, Public Health, Computer Science, Medicine,
Nursing and Pharmacy. DO&IT is acknowledged by several publications as a
Top 5 performer in research production worldwide and the Information
Systems group ranks in the top 10 worldwide in Business Week and U.S. News
and World Report. Since its inception in 2005, CHIDS has served as a focal
point for thought leadership around the topic of digitally-enabled health
system transformation.

-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4327 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL
301.405.8655 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal
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