[AISWorld] HICSS Call for Papers: Social Media and Healthcare Technology (in Info Tech in HealthCare)

[Argyris, Young]

Minitrack: SOCIA MEDIA and HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
Overall Track: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE

Description:

This minitrack has consistently presented 1-2 full sessions of papers at HICSS since its inception ten years ago, and a minimum of 2 full sessions since 2019 providing a venue for researchers to present current work and discuss diverse uses relating to social media in healthcare including methodological, conceptual, and design issues.  Papers will include research studies that: (1) describe social media communities and the mining of data from social media platforms to address health issues; (2) evaluate the design, development, and implementation of social media applications related to health; (3) assess the impact of these applications, including impacts on patients, healthcare providers, organizations, and society in general; and (4) develop theories and models to better understand the mechanisms by which social media produces impacts on healthcare and health behavior.

Research in this rapidly developing field must address key methodological questions, we therefore welcome submission that critically engage the following:

  *   How are health-related social media data appropriately accessed? What constitutes an appropriate social media data set?
  *   What analytic strategies or theories, both quantitative and qualitative, are optimal for analyzing social media data?
  *   How to best measure effectiveness, acceptability and reach of social media-delivered health education?
  *   What human subjects or ethical guidelines, inform the use of data obtained through social media?
  *   Are existing social media applications designed to produce medical, psychological or public health impacts effective, safe and acceptable?

Social media is changing the way patients, medical practitioners, and healthcare organizations, interact.  Patients use social media to create communities with similar medical concerns or diagnoses, to research health related issues, and to inform their health decisions —including selecting a doctor, researching courses of treatment and sharing experiences with online communities. Clinicians and researchers use social media to design and implement behavioral interventions for a variety of health conditions, and to study how social media shapes healthcare decisions.  Physicians use it to network professionally with colleagues and share medical knowledge within the medical community.  Healthcare providers and organizations use social media to serve their communities, patients, and physicians, while also building awareness and enhancing their brand.  Each of these uses provide opportunities to consider how social media influences health care, and to consider what data derived from social media exchanges – and which analytical methodologies – best serves this goal.

Key Words: Social Media, social media analytics, Health care, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok,

Minitrack Co-Chairs

Young Anna Argyris, PhD argyris at msu.edu<mailto:argyris at msu.edu>
Associate Professor
Department of Media and Information
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Michigan State University

Dr. Argyris earned her doctoral degree in management information systems from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Argyris’ research centers on how technology diffuses information and knowledge through digital connections, thereby influencing individual and organizational decision-making. Along this line, Dr. Argyris’ recent program focuses on (1) the proliferation of health misinformation through social networks and (2) the development of artificial intelligence-empowered interventions for health decisions. She is a transdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of management information systems, health, and computer science/engineering. Dr. Argyris has published nearly 40 manuscripts, many of which appeared in top-tiered journals in information systems (e.g., MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Review), health/medicine (e.g., the British Medical Journal), and engineering (e.g., Communications of the ACM, and IEEE biomedical and health informatics). Dr. Argyris is the (co) principal investigator of multiple grant awards, including those from the NIH and the NSF.
Beth Bock, PhD beth_bock at brown.edu<mailto:beth_bock at brown.edu>
Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Brown Medical School
Professor Behavioral & Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health

Dr. Bock is a senior research scientist at The Miriam Hospital and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Brown Medical School and a Professor in Behavioral & Social Sciences at the Brown School of Public Health.  Her primary research interest is using technologies to promote health behavior change. She is a health psychologist with over 25 years’ experience developing and testing behavioral health interventions delivered via print, Internet and mobile platforms, with a focus on substance use cessation and physical activity. She has developed assessments to measure psychosocial constructs underlying individuals’ relationship with their mobile devices. She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has been principal investigator on 21 NIH-funded studies.  She and her colleagues have pioneered novel methodologies of developing intervention methods that are culturally consistent with technology users.
Jordan Braciszewski, PhD jbracis1 at hfhs.org<mailto:jbracis1 at hfhs.org>
Associate Scientist
Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry Ford Health
Jordan Braciszewski, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Scientist in the Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research at Henry Ford Health. His research generally focuses on innovative means of improving access to mental health and substance use services, often using technology-driven approaches. He collaborates with partners in Pediatrics, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, and Psychiatry to implement digital health care into clinical practice. As such, he is interested in integrated care and finding the best solutions for patients to access behavioral health services in the least stigmatizing settings. He is currently PI or Site PI for several NIH and other federally funded grants and has helped bring over $12M in research funding to Henry Ford Health. Dr. Braciszewski is also Training Director for his Center’s T32 Post-Doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services Research. Finally, he has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2009.