[AISWorld] CFP: Information Systems Frontiers - Special Issue on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare

[Jungpil Hahn]

Call For Papers: Information Systems Frontiers - Special Issue on Big Data
and Analytics in Healthcare

Data analytics is already making large impacts in finance, manufacturing,
retail, and social networks. The healthcare industry, too, is undergoing
dramatic transformation in promoting patient centric services and evidence
based reasoning in treatment and care delivery. Big data will play an
important role in this transformation. Thus, there is growing interest in
efficient healthcare data acquisition, processing and analysis across
different healthcare organizations. However, current healthcare information
systems are still lacking in successful implementation of big data
solutions. The heterogeneous and rapidly expanding nature of healthcare
data also poses challenges for big data projects. In the face of these
challenges, this special issue is intended for IS researchers to
disseminate cutting-edge research that provides insights into the
challenges, opportunities, novel strategies, and analytic tools and
techniques for dealing with big data in healthcare.

Some indicative themes might include:
- Health services perspectives
- Data-driven optimal planning and scheduling
- Using analytics to improve healthcare outcomes (patient safety, medical
error reduction etc.)
- Developing data-driven systems that better support patient-provider
interaction
- Improving healthcare workflow and process efficiency
- Supporting practice at a distance (telehealth)
- Public health perspectives
- Improving government and community health policy making
- Detecting disease outbreaks & biological threats using analytics
- Systems for monitoring and managing population health
- Delivering health information and knowledge to the public
- Consumer health perspectives
- Personal health records
- Self-care systems
- Social media
- Internet health

Forms of submission:
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The areas covered by this special issue have been attractive topics at
conferences such as the BDAH 2014 Conference on Big Data and Analytics in
Healthcare, Singapore. In the case of papers from the conference, the
submission is required to be a substantial revision of the conference
publication and the authors will be required to submit a letter detailing
the difference between their conference paper and the new version. All
submitted papers will go through peer review and if the paper does not
receive a satisfactory review, it will not be considered for the special
issue.

Submission Instruction:
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Manuscripts must be submitted to the ISF-Springer online submission system
at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/.

Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information
Systems Frontiers available at:
http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796

Submissions should be approximately 32 pages double spaced including
references.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2014
Initial review report: 15th February 2015
Final Revised Manuscript: Due 15th May 2015
Publication Issue TBA

Guest Editors:
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Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore (atreyi at comp.nus.edu.sg
)
Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore (jungpil at nus.edu.sg )
Sharon Tan, National University of Singapore (tansl at comp.nus.edu.sg)
Gordon Gao, University of Maryland (ggao at rhsmith.umd.edu)

Senior Guest Editors:
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Hock-Hai Teo, National University of Singapore
Danny Poo, National University of Singapore

The full CFP announcement can be found at:
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP-ISF-SI-BigData.pdf
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