[AISWorld] ITD Health Equity Minitrack at HICSS

[Sajda Qureshi]

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT: USE OF ICTS FOR HEALTH EQUITY MINITRACK<http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-51/information-technology-in-healthcare/#health-information-technology-for-development-use-of-icts-for-health-equity-minitrack>

Concepts of health equity, healthcare access and outcomes, and mHealth can be explored in this minitrack as a means of understanding the challenges and opportunities for creating a better world with ICTs. In particular, the concept of health equity can help understand the duality between healthcare access and outcomes. The growing use of mHealth applications have offered opportunities to address some of the individual, community and public health challenges that current ICTs do not address and often complicate the quest for better healthcare provision.

This minitrack invites submissions that are theoretically and empirically sound while offering implications for practice. Through novel submissions, participation in discussions on this topic, we hope to generate a stream of scholarship with key contributions in this area. Topics include but are not limited to:
*        Use of ICTs to enable equitable healthcare provision
*        Healthcare applications to combat the spread of infectious diseases
*        Use of mobile healthcare applications to provide greater access to healthcare
*        Location based mHealth applications for disabilities and/or multiple chronic conditions and in epidemiology/public health surveillance, community data collection and remote monitoring of patients.
*        Evaluation of mHealth and other innovations in offering equitable healthcare to individuals and communities in need.

Theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers are welcome. Submissions that include theory development, frameworks and models for studying and applying emerging technologies are encouraged. For empirical papers, field studies, case studies, action research, innovative online data collection methods, and appropriate quantitative techniques are strongly recommended. Papers submitted should explicitly state their research methods.

Outstanding papers accepted in the minitrack will be fast-tracked for review consideration by and possible publication in the Information Technology for Development Journal (ITD). For submission instructions please see: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/

We look forward to your submissions!

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Matthias Hatakka (Primary Contact)
Orebro University School of Business
mathias.hatakka at oru.se

Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth Health Care and Deakin University
n.wickramasinghe at deakin.edu.au

Sajda Qureshi
University of Nebraska at Omaha
squreshi at unomaha.edu