[AISWorld] Deadline Approaching: 7th Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE 2016)

[Ritu Agarwal]

*WHITE 2016*

*The 7th Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics*

*October 21-22nd, Westin Georgetown, Washington, D.C.*

www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white



*Chair:* Ritu Agarwal

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



We are pleased to announce the call for submissions to the *7th Annual
**Workshop
on Health IT and Economics (WHITE)**.*



WHITE is a health IT summit that gathers prominent scholars in a
multidisciplinary setting. It attracts over 100 scholars and thought
leaders from more than 40 institutions. The aim of the workshop is to
provide 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.



As is the tradition, this year’s WHITE workshop will be held in Washington
DC, center of health policy debates, on *Friday and Saturday, October
21-22, 2016.* The conference is hosted by the Center for Health Information
and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
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) and the University of Michigan School of Public Health.



We solicit papers on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to,
the following: Health IT adoption and impacts; health information exchange;
IT-enabled new organization forms and delivery models; market competition
and health insurance exchange; mHealth and patient empowerment; quality
transparency and public reporting; and healthcare analytics and big data.



Please submit an *extended abstract* of no more than 5 pages (11-pt font,
one-inch margins on four sides, double-spaced) to
*whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu* <whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu>* by Friday, Aug
12th, 2016. *Authors may also submit full papers, in addition to the
abstract. Submissions will be reviewed for novelty, rigor, and policy
impact. Decisions will be sent to authors no later than Monday, August 29th.



As in the past, 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, *full papers* should be submitted to
*whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu* <whitepaper at rhsmith.umd.edu> by* Friday, Sep
16th, 2016.*



For further information and updates, including about the Doctoral
Consortium program, please check www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white. Programs
and photo albums of previous years are available on the conference website
for your perusal.  We look forward to your participation.  *Note: WHITE
does not assume copyright over work accepted for presentation.


-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
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/faculty/ragarwal