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<b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><font color="#ff0000" size="4">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:center;line-height:16.5pt;background-image:initial;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><font color="#ff0000" size="4">for the HEALTHCARE ICT track</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:center;line-height:16.5pt;background-image:initial;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><font color="#ff0000" size="4">The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS)</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:center;line-height:16.5pt;background-image:initial;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Guimarães, Portugal - September 8-10, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">2012</a></font></span></b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(79,129,189)"></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><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"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><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"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><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<sup>st</sup> 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"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><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"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(19,92,174)"><font size="4">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare ICT theory development,</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare institution behavior,</font></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare reforms,</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">healthcare ICT and Cloud Computing,</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria,serif"><font size="4">human costs of healthcare ICT,</font></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">MCIS <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">2012</a> 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"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">Important dates:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">March 9th, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">2012</a>: Deadline for paper submissions via the submission platform</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">May 11<sup>th</sup>: Notification of Acceptance</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">June 1st Camera ready Paper Submission</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">Chairs’ contact information:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Tsipi Heart, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, </span><a href="mailto:heart@bgu.ac.il" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">heart@bgu.ac.il</span></a><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dale MacKrell, University of Canberra ACT,</span><a href="mailto:dale.mackrell@canberra.edu.au" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">dale.mackrell@canberra.edu.au</span></a></font></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Tsipi Heart<br>Department of Industrial Engineering & Management<br>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<br>Office: <a href="tel:%2B972-8-6472255" value="+97286472255" target="_blank">+972-8-6472255</a><br>
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