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<p>Dear AIS World Colleagues,<br /><br />PLEASE FORGIVE ANY CROSS POSTINGS. 2ND CALL -</p>

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<p>I am writing on behalf of the EURAM Subtrack B Chairs to encourage you to submit papers for EURAM 2013 - SIG Strategic Management. All pertinent information can be reviewed below. All Subtrack Chairs contact information is contained below as well.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span><br />EURAM 2013 - SIG STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT<br /></span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span>Istanbul, Turkey - June 26 - 29, 2013<br /><br />Track: Management & Technological Innovation at a Crossroads:</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span>New Processes, Practices, and Structures</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span><br />SUBTRACK – B: STRATEGIC INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span>MANAGEMENT: CITIZEN-CENTRIC HEALTH SYSTEMS,</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><strong><span>PROCESSES, AND PRACTICES</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><span>Deadline for paper submission: <strong>January 15, 2013 at 2pm CET</strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" align="center"><span>Notification of acceptance: <strong>Beginning March 26, 2013</strong></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span><br />Strategic Innovations in Healthcare Management that emphasizes Citizen-centric Health </span><span>Systems, Processes, and Practices, has the capability to empower citizens to personally mange their health and interact with the healthcare providers. Technology is becoming an important enabler for citizens as health care consumers that could fundamentally change their relationship within healthcare organizations. For example, Personal Health Records (PHRs) are allowing patients to manage their health-related information. Telehealth initiatives are increasing the reach of citizens to a wider array of health services, especially in remote or underserved areas. Furthermore, mobile technologies are providing pervasive support and guidance not available to those patients in the past. As citizen-centric health systems help engage citizens in their own healthcare and empower them in their interactions with healthcare organizations, we will begin to observe fundamental changes in how healthcare organizations strategically rearrange themselves and innovate to better serve this new ‘consumer’ profile.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span><br />The empowerment accommodated by these innovations may also challenge traditional role relations not only between citizens and healthcare professionals but also among healthcare professionals. Specifically, these innovations may alter traditional healthcare routines, shift industry structures, and impact institutionalized roles and patterns of interaction in new and mostly unexpected manners. For example, from a socio-material perspective, material construction of these technologies into healthcare systems create and shift social outcomes, yet social outcomes of these innovations recreate and change the material construction of these technologies. Therefore, it is very important to study the use, development and adoption of these new systems and related organizational adaptation in healthcare organizations. While, we are not specifically after studies from socio-material perspective, studies may focus on new technologies, processes, organizational routines or professional practices across the healthcare industry spawned by citizen-centric health technologies considering only social, or material dimensions, or both.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span><br />Because of the fundamental nature of the track, we invite papers that address </span><span>conventional or unconventional problems of healthcare innovations with a multidisciplinary perspective employing diverse approaches (qualitative or quantitiative), </span><span>levels of analysis and research orientations.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span><br />Some focus areas that might fall under this track are:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>The design of citizen-centric health innovations such as electronic health records, </span><span>personal health records, personal e-prescription systems, context aware technologies, </span><span>online health information tools, health portals and health-buddy systems that integrate </span><span>with the health care system</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Global diffusion of healthcare innovations <br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Innovation adoption and diffusion across organizational fields and ecologies of </span><span>healthcare</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>International, national, and/or regional policy implications on design and operations </span><span>of citizen-centric health information systems</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Material, social and/or sociomaterial approaches to healthcare innovations</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Citizen centric systems (such as personal health records) and their impact on citizen </span><span>empowerment</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Practice-based studies focusing on new medical working practices interacting </span><span>healthcare innovations</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Professional roles contradicting and/or enabling innovation in healthcare</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>The impact of citizen-centric technologies on new places of care. For example, the </span><span>possibilities of monitoring or barriers to smart home and elder-care technologies of </span><span>the future</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">• * </span><span>Social, material or sociomaterial issues in citizen centric healthcare technologies, and </span><span>their effects on health information systems and healthcare organizations</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><br />ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES</span></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>Best Papers of this sub-track will be eligible for special invitation to Health Systems J</span><span>ournal or Journal of Global Information Technology Management, depending on their </span><span>focus.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><br />IMPORTANT DATES</span></span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SUBTRACK CHAIRS</span></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span>Deniz Tuncalp (Turkey) </span></strong><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>Istanbul Technical University</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>tuncalp@itu.edu.tr<br /></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span><br />Bengisu Tulu (USA)</span></strong><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>Worcester Polytechnic Institute</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>bengisu@wpi.edu</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span><br />Mehmet Ercek (Turkey)</span></strong><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>Istanbul Technical University</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>ercekme@itu.edu.tr</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span><br />Cynthia LeRouge (USA)</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>lerougec@slu.edu</span></p>

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