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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#ff0000" size="4">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></span></b></p>

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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#ff0000" size="4">for the HEALTHCARE  ICT track </font></span></b></p>

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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#ff0000" size="4">The 7th Mediterranean Conference on
Information Systems (MCIS)</font></span></b></p>

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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Guimarães, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012</font></span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd"></span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">Information and
communication technologies (ICT) offer significant possibilities to transform
almost every aspect of healthcare. To fully exploit the potential of healthcare
ICT, challenges must be overcome, and, as healthcare organizations move towards
patient-centered systems, opportunities in the provision of superior healthcare
services need to be recognized. </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">The impact on
the healthcare sector of ICT initiatives, as in the form of e-health,
electronic medical records and healthcare portals, is not only considerable but
also far reaching. Despite widespread efforts to introduce IS to reform
clinical and non-clinical tasks, adoption in many countries is much slower than
planned in all levels of health provisioning: primary, secondary and tertiary. Consequently,
it is possible that there are incompatibilities, perceived or otherwise, with
the current technologies available to healthcare professionals. </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">This track
aims to provide a common platform for discussion and presentation of original
research highlighting opportunities and challenges related to the role of IS in
delivering 21^st century healthcare outcomes. We invite theoretical
and empirical submissions that leverage the multiple perspectives of ICT in the
healthcare sector. </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">Full research
and research-in-progress papers are sought which address the inter-disciplinary
nature of opportunities and challenges in incorporating ICT in healthcare. A
cross-national focus will be particularly sought suggesting that IS development,
implementation and management may need to be addressed more widely than simply
looking at the organizational unit of analysis.</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:18.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.6pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#135cae"><font size="4">Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to</font></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;text-align:justify"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4"><span style>healthcare ICT theory development,</span>
</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">ICT theories
in association with other bodies of knowledge e.g. patient care, and patient
centeredness,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">impact of ICT
on physician-patient communication,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare
institution behavior,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare
reforms,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare
ICT system adoption/implementation success and failure,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare
ICT and Cloud Computing,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">impact of
healthcare ICT use on quality of care,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">compatibility
of healthcare ICT with clinical tasks,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">human costs
of  healthcare ICT,</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">measures to
assess ROI, financial implications.</font></span></li></ul><p></p>

















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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">MCIS 2012
welcomes paper submissions using suitable research methods to reflect key issues
in healthcare ICT from multiple perspectives such as industry, organizational
and individual levels as well as cultural, social and environmental aspects.  </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">Important
dates:</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">March
9th, 2012: Deadline for paper submissions via the submission platform</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">May
11^th: Notification of Acceptance</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">June
1st Camera ready Paper Submission</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4">Chairs’
contact information:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p>

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, </span><a href="mailto:heart@bgu.ac.il"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">heart@bgu.ac.il</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"> </span></font></p>



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MacKrell, University of Canberra ACT, </span><a href="mailto:dale.mackrell@canberra.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">dale.mackrell@canberra.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"> </span></font></p>



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Dr. Tsipi Heart<br>Department of Industrial Engineering & Management<br>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<br>Office: +972-8-6472255<br>
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