[AISWorld] Latest Issue of IJHISI 9(4): International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

[Michael Dohan]

Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Healthcare Information
Systems and Informatics (IJHISI) 9(4) The contents of the latest issue of:
*International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
(IJHISI)*
Volume 9, Issue 4, October - December 2014
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1555-3396; EISSN: 1555-340X;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijhisi
<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-healthcare-information-systems/1094>

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Joseph Tan (McMaster University, Canada)
*Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted
to the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and
Informatics (IJHISI). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind
peer review editorial process.*

*GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE*

Innovation and Engagement: The Key to Expedite Health Information
Technology Adoption

Bernard Han (Bronson School of Nursing, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, USA), Sharie Falan (Bronson School of Nursing, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA)

To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=124113&ptid=91505&ctid=15&t=Innovation and
Engagement: The Key to Expedite Health Information Technology Adoption
<http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=124113&ptid=91505&ctid=15&t=Innovation%20and%20Engagement:%20The%20Key%20to%20Expedite%20Health%20Information%20Technology%20Adoption>

*ARTICLE 1: A Balanced Perspective to Perioperative Process Management
Aligned to Hospital Strategy*

Jim Ryan (Sorrell College of Business, Troy University, Phenix City, AL,
USA), Barbara Doster (University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital,
Birmingham, AL, USA), Sandra Daily (University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hospital, Birmingham, AL, USA), Carmen Lewis (Sorrell College of Business,
Troy University, Phenix City, AL, USA)

Dynamic technological activities of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis can
highlight complex relationships within integrated processes to target
improvement and ultimately yield improved processes. Likewise, the
identification of existing process limitations, potential capabilities, and
subsequent contextual understanding are contributing factors that yield
measured improvement. Based on a 120-month longitudinal study of an
academic medical center, this study investigates how integrated information
systems and business analytics can improve perioperative efficiency and
effectiveness across patient quality of care, stakeholder satisfaction,
clinical operations, and financial cost effectiveness. This case study
examines process management practices of balanced scorecard and dashboards
to monitor and improve the perioperative process, aligned to overall
hospital goals at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. The
conclusion includes discussion of study implications and limitations.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/a-balanced-perspective-to-perioperative-process-management-aligned-to-hospital-strategy/124116

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=124116

*ARTICLE 2: A Threat Table Based Assessment of Information Security in
Telemedicine*

John C. Pendergrass (College of Business Administration, University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA), Karen Heart (Tagmata Software
Security, Chicago, IL, USA), C. Ranganathan (College of Business
Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA), V. N.
Venkatakrishnan (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)

Information security within healthcare is paramount and telemedicine
applications present unique security challenges. Technology is giving rise
to new and advanced telemedicine applications and understanding the
security threats to these applications is needed to ensure, among other
things, the privacy of patient information. This paper proposes a threat
table approach to assess security threats pertaining to telemedicine
applications. The concept and its usefulness are illustrated using a case
study. This case study focuses on the capture and representation of salient
security threats in telemedicine. To analyze the security threats to an
application, it presents a threat modeling framework utilizing a table
driven approach. The study reveals that even in a highly controlled
environment with static locations, the security risks posed by telemedicine
applications are significant, and that using a threat table approach
provides an easy-to-use and effective method for managing these threats.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/a-threat-table-based-assessment-of-information-security-in-telemedicine/124117

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=124117

*ARTICLE 3: Monitoring and Assisting Maternity-Infant Care in Rural Areas
(MAMICare)*

Juan C. Lavariega (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico), Gustavo A.
Córdova (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico), Lorena G. Gómez
(Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico), Alfonso Avila (Tecnológico
de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico)

Presented is the project called MAMICare, which is motivated by the
alarming number of maternity and infant deaths in rural areas due mainly to
a poor monitoring of pregnancy progress and lack of appropriate alerting
mechanism in case of abnormal gestation evolution. This work proposes an
information technology solution based on mobile devices, and health sensors
such as ECG (electrocardiogram), stethoscope, pulse-oximeter, and
blood-glucose meter to collect automatically relevant health data for a
better monitoring of pregnant women. This article addresses the status of
the maternity infant death problem especially in rural areas of Mexico. It
reviews some applications of IT in health systems (known also as Electronic
Health or simply e-Health) and discusses how these are related to the
presented proposal and how they differ. The article presents the proposed
solution and discuss the current status of the work.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/monitoring-and-assisting-maternity-infant-care-in-rural-areas-mamicare/124118

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=124118

*ARTICLE 4: An Exploratory Study of Home Healthcare Robots Adoption
Applying the UTAUT Model*

Ahmad Alaiad (Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA), Lina Zhou (Department of Information
Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA),
Gunes Koru (Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA)

The home healthcare initiative is aimed to reduce readmission costs,
transportation costs, and hospital medical errors, and to improve post
hospitalization healthcare quality, and enhance patient home independency.
Today, it is almost unimaginable to consider this initiative without
information technology. Home healthcare robots are one of such emerging
technologies. Several robots have been developed to facilitate home
healthcare such as remote presence robots (e.g., RP2) and Paro. Most
previous research in this area has focused on technology and implementation
issues of home healthcare robots, but ignored the factors that influence
their adoption. To address the limitation, the current research applied and
extended the UTAUT model to the home healthcare domain. The model was
tested using survey questionnaire. The empirical results not only confirmed
the effects of some constructs from the original UTAUT model but also
identified perceived security as a new factor that directly affects usage
intention of home healthcare robots. In addition, effort expectancy did not
show a direct effect but an indirect effect through performance expectancy
on usage intention. Several practical and theoretical implications are also
discussed.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/an-exploratory-study-of-home-healthcare-robots-adoption-applying-the-utaut-model/124119

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=124119

*BOOK REVIEW: Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and
Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience*

Sharie Falan (Bronson School of Nursing, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, USA)

To obtain a copy of the Book Review, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=124120&ptid=91505&ctid=17&t=Accelerating
Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason
Experience
<http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=124120&ptid=91505&ctid=17&t=Accelerating%20Health%20Care%20Transformation%20with%20Lean%20and%20Innovation:%20The%20Virginia%20Mason%20Experience>
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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
*International
Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI)* in your
institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global
aggregated *"InfoSci-Journals"* database: www.igi-global.com/isj
<http://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/>.
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Mission of IJHISI:

The mission of the *International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems
and Informatics (IJHISI)* is to be a prime source for both academic
researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice in the
interdisciplinary areas of healthcare information technology and management
research. IJHISI addresses the innovative concepts and critical issues in
the emerging field of health information systems and informatics.

Indices of IJHISI:

   - ACM Digital Library
   - Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC)
   - Bacon's Media Directory
   - Burrelle's Media Directory
   - Cabell's Directories
   - Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index)
   - CSA Illumina
   - DBLP
   - Gale Directory of Publications & Broadcast Media
   - GetCited
   - Google Scholar
   - JournalTOCs
   - Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
   - MediaFinder
   - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
   - SCOPUS
   - The Index of Information Systems Journals
   - The Standard Periodical Directory
   - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Coverage of IJHISI:

This journal spans a wide scope of applications and issues surrounding the
organization, classification, evaluation, and adoption of advanced
information and communication technology in topics that include (but are
not limited to) the following:
Clinical decision support design, development, and implementation
E-health
Healthcare
Impact of HISI on public and social policy
IT applications and measurements in health organizations and practices
IT security and privacy issues
Management of emerging healthcare technologies
Medical informatics
M-health
Role of informatics specialists
Telemedicine
Virtual health technologies

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines
www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-healthcare-information-systems/1094
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