[AISWorld] Final CFP HICSS49 Mini-track on Technology Mediated Collaborations in e-Health

[Souren Paul]

*Call for Papers:*

*Technology Mediated Collaborations in e-Health*

*Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track*

*Forty-ninth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January
5-8, 2016)*

*Grand Hyatt, Kauai*



*Mini-track Co-Chairs:*



Souren Paul

Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences

Nova Southeastern University

3301 College Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314

USA

Phone: + 1 (954) 262-2047

Fax: + 1 (954) 262-3915

Souren.paul at gmail.com

Arkalgud Ramaprasad

Department of Information & Decision Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: +1 (312) 772-3819

prasad at uic.edu

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Epworth HealthCare

SBITL & HIRI

RMIT University

Building 108 Level 17

239 Bourke Street

Melbourne VIC 2000

Australia

Phone: +61 3 9925 5783

Fax: +61 3 9925 5850

nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au



Today all countries (developed, developing, and emerging) are faced with
exponentially increasing costs for healthcare delivery coupled with
challenges of changing demographics as well as an increase in chronic
diseases.  There is a growing need to deliver more effective and efficient
healthcare.  To address this situation we are witnessing the application of
various eHealth solutions to support superior healthcare delivery.  All
these efforts represent applications of collaboration technologies.

In the light of these healthcare reforms collaboration technologies are
being used in research, practice, and management.  They have potential for
even greater use.  Geographically dispersed health professionals can use
collaboration technology to communicate with each other, review patient
records, manage workflows, and improve the delivery of patient care.
Similarly,
geographically non-collocated researchers can collaborate with each other.  The
problem being addressed by this mini-track is encapsulated in the attached
ontology.

The five primary stakeholders in healthcare: researchers, clinicians,
nurses, patients, and administrators form the basis of any partnership in
health care.  They are listed under the two partnership
sub-dimensions.  Software
Agents/Bots which are playing an increasing independent role in the
delivery of healthcare have been added to the list of partners.  A
partnership may be between two researchers, a researcher and a clinician, a
patient and a nurse, etc.  These dyads are summarized by the two columns
under partners.  There may also be triadic and higher order partnerships
among these partners.

The partnerships may be based on an exchange of data, analysis, diagnosis,
or treatment singly or in combination. These are listed under the content
dimension of the ontology. Thus collaboration between two researchers may
use data, between a patient and a nurse may be for diagnosis or treatment,
and so on.

The Media for partnership may be Personal, Social, Mass, or Institutional.
The ontology lists the key media in healthcare in each of the
categories.  Thus,
for example, researchers may exchange analysis via personal media, patients
may exchange treatments via social media, and clinicians and administrators
may exchange data via institutional media.

The purpose of the collaboration may be care, research, administration,
education or a combination of the four.  These are listed under the purpose
dimension of the ontology.  Thus collaboration between two researchers
using data may be for research, and between a patient and a clinician may
be for diagnosis for care.

In the attached ontology, there are a very large number of basic types of
collaborations one can consider in healthcare.  The number will change if
the dimensions and categories are modified. In a practical context multiple
combinations will likely coexist.  A clinician-patient collaboration using
data via individual media for care may be supplemented by a nurse-patient
collaboration using social media for education.

Technology’s impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of these
collaborations will be determined by the architecture of the technology,
the systems developed around it, and the strategy for implementing it.  The
efficacy of the architecture will determine the efficacy of the system, and
the efficacy of the system will determine the efficacy of the strategy.
Thus the three categories under the technology dimension in the ontology.

The ontology provides a framework for fitting the pieces of the puzzle,
synthesizing what is known, determining the gaps, and directing future
research on the topic.  Moreover, it serves to provide a framework for
facilitating the design and implementation of successful eHealth solutions.
 We invite papers focusing any one or many of the innumerable combinations
in the ontology.  Further, we welcome papers which address the
state-of-the-art, state-of-the-need, and the state-of-the-practice of these
combinations.

We strongly encourage authors to submit original contributions where
innovative ideas, implementations, and empirical studies are described.  The
technological contributions can highlight applications, systems, and
methodological issues on the development and/or implementation of
collaborative systems in healthcare.  The social, organizational, and
behavioral contributions can report the outcome of empirical studies on
technology mediated collaboration in healthcare.

*Submission Process*:

Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the HICSS
on-line submission system at https://precisionconference.com/~hicss/ by
June 15, 2015.  Papers should not exceed ten pages and the initial
submission will not have author names. Please check the above web site or
contact the mini-track co-chairs for more information.

*Key Dates*:

Full Papers Due: June 15, 2015 (midnight Hawaii Time); Notification of
Acceptance: August 16, 2015
Final Paper Due: September 15, 2015 *(11:59 PM Pacific time zone).  *At
least one author of each paper should register by this date.  This is the
Early Registration fee deadline.
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