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Call for Papers - <a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-user-driven-healthcare" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">International Journal of User Driven Healthcare</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Special Issue on Theory-driven Interventions in Health care using Health Information Systems </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Submission Due Date: Feb 1st, 2013</b></div>
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Guest Editors: Saptarshi Purkayastha (<a href="mailto:saptarsp@idi.ntnu.no" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">saptarsp@idi.ntnu.no</a>), NTNU, Norway</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Knut Staring (<a href="mailto:knutst@ifi.uio.no" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">knutst@ifi.uio.no</a>), Univ. of Oslo, Norway</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Introduction</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Theory-driven evaluation came to prominence only a few decades ago with the appearance of Chen’s 1990 book Theory-Driven Evaluations. Since that time, the approach has attracted many supporters as well as detractors. At its core, theory-driven evaluation has two vital components, one conceptual, one empirical (Rogers et al., 2000). Conceptually, theory-driven evaluations should explicate a program theory or model. Empirically, theory-driven evaluations seek to investigate how programs cause intended or observed outcomes (Coryn et al, 2011).</div>
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Yet, limiting theory to evaluations is somewhat futile, because usually some theory as basis for a “hypothesis” (unless the research is using a grounded approach) is what drives interventions in the first place. For instance, some health information system (HIS) interventions aim to provide information about health system practices towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A great number of theoretical lenses drive Information Systems (IS) interventions, and there have been attempts at collecting overviews of such theories, e.g. <a href="http://istheory.byu.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://istheory.byu.edu</a> However, even though that list is quite comprehensive, it is not exhaustive - for example, it leaves out important perspectives from design science and information infrastructure theory (Hanseth and Lyytinen 2010; Sein et al, 2011; von Krogh and Haefliger, 2010)</div>
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In this special issue we seek to showcase papers that are driven by theory – in planning, in action, in diagnosis and in evaluations. Theory-driven interventions is used here to distinguish from report-style papers, position papers or papers that draw concepts purely from observations without theoretical basis prior to intervention.</div>
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<b>Objective of the Special Issue</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The special issue would like to highlight studies in HIS that focus on doing IS interventions with a theory in mind or with knowledge building/testing in mind. The studies in the special issue would like to explain the phenomenon of IS intervention through IS theory, yet allow medical researchers/practitioners to connect with them. These studies will help medical informaticians or public health practitioners to realize the importance of existing abstracted knowledge (theory) and consider appropriate theoretical lenses for HIS interventions.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Suggested topics for discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• Participatory action-research as a bottom up strategy to problem solving and achieving change in healthcare</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• Distinguishing end-users from super-users and theorizing their views in HIS</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Institutionalization of IS within healthcare practices</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Design science perspectives on HIS</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• Interventions that deal with structures in health systems and their evolution</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Efforts at scaling interventions and information infrastructure</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Quantity of knowledge absorption, quantity of knowledge transfer, innovation in HIS</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• User satisfaction, performance, perception, behavior, usage as in Cognitive dissonance theory</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Dynamics of social construction and performance of illness through user-driven healthcare practices</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Capabilities, absorptive capacity, environmental turbulence, agility as in Dynamic Capabilities Theory</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Resource Importance, Alternatives, Discretion as in Resource Dependency Theory</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• Speech acts, Communicative action as in Language Action Perspectives when HIS systems capture patient narratives or clinician notes or communication in health systems</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
• Fit-Viability Model of IS interventions on Health systems</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• Bridging the gap between what we know and what is knowable in clinical practice</div>
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<b>Submissions</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers (over email to the guest editors) for this special theme issue on or before 1st February 2013. All submissions must be original and should not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS (LINKS BELOW).</div>
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Submitted papers should not be more than 8000 words inclusive of abstract, tables and references. All submitted papers will be reviewed by 2 reviewers on a double-blind basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.</div>
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<b>References</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Belle, S. V., Marchal, B., Dubourg, D., & Kegels, G. (2010). How to develop a theory-driven evaluation design? Lessons learned from an adolescent sexual and reproductive health programme in West Africa. BMC Public Health, 10(1), 741. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-741</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Chen, H. T. (1990). Theory-driven evaluations. Sage Publications, Incorporated.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
- Coryn, C. L. S., Noakes, L. A., Westine, C. D., & Schröter, D. C. (2011). A Systematic Review of Theory-Driven Evaluation Practice From 1990 to 2009. American Journal of Evaluation, 32(2), 199–226. doi:10.1177/1098214010389321</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Hanseth, O., K. Lyytinen. 2010. Design theory for dynamic complexity in information infrastructures: The case of building Internet, J. Inform. Tech. 25(1) 1–19.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Rogers, P. J., Petrosino, A., Huebner, T. A., & Hacsi, T. A. (2000). Program theory evaluation: Practice, promise, and problems. New Directions for Evaluation, 2000(87), 5–13. doi:10.1002/ev.1177</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Sein, M.K., Henfridsson, O., Purao, S., Rossi, M., Lindgren, R., 2011. Action design research. MIS Quarterly 35 (2).</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - von Krogh, G., Haefliger, S., 2010. “Opening up design science: The challenge of designing for reuse and joint development”. Journal of Strategic Information Systems 19, 232-241.</div>
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