<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="pbody"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Special Issue of <i>Health Systems</i></span></b></span><span class="pbody"><span style="font-size:20.0pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="pbody"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="pbody"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Health IT and Economics </span></b></span><span class="pbody"><span style="font-size:20.0pt"></span></span></p>
<p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="pbody"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Guest editors: Elizabeth J.
Davidson, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Jeffrey S. McCullough</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span class="pbody"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Curbing the growth of healthcare costs while
improving quality and efficiency is challenging globally. Information
technologies (IT) hold the potential to transform healthcare delivery to
achieve these varied goals. Important IT applications include electronic
medical records, telemedicine, remote monitoring devices, personal health
records, and health information exchanges. Health service providers and payers
such as governments and insurance companies are rapidly adopting new
technologies and systems. Consumer access to health information via the
Internet and mobile devices is growing rapidly as well. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With this rapid digitization, the economics of
healthcare delivery are being reshaped. Improved patient information can, for
example, help providers and policies makers to better optimize healthcare
resource allocation and decision-making. Information technology can substitute
or complement labor inputs in some areas to increase the productivity of health
services delivery. Electronic markets
for health insurance provide additional channels for competition among payers, while
online information might affect patients’ choice of providers and procedures.
Investments in health IT are substantial, however, as are the social and
organizational efforts to realize economic benefits. In particular, healthcare
providers face significant costs to invest in health IT and uncertain economic
gain from doing so.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This special issue calls for research focused on the
changing landscape of economics of health IT.
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Health Systems</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (</span><a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/index.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/index.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">)
is an interdisciplinary journal that promotes a systems view of health and
healthcare delivery and a holistic understanding of how people, organizations,
technology and resources are interrelated in health systems change and
improvement. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This
special issue will focus on the economic issues of health IT within the mission
of the journal. Health IT and economics
have been explored in fields including medicine, medical informatics, public
health, management, information systems, computer science, and economics. The
special issue is multidisciplinary and will help generate synergies across
individual disciplines to deepen understanding of the impact of IT on health
systems. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Costs and benefits of health IT adoption and use at provider,
organizational, regional or national levels of analysis; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Multi-level analysis or modeling of economic drivers of health IT
adoption and use;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Challenges of and methods for assessment of returns on health IT
investments; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Evaluation of measures and incentives for meaningful use to achieve
health system goals of quality improvement and cost containment; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Business and sustainability models for health information exchanges; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">New IT-enabled forms of health services production; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Economic implications of patient information seeking, consumption, and
decision making; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Quality transparency and public reporting via health IT; </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Health IT implications for market competition, health insurance
exchanges, and regulation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are interested in the diversity of healthcare
systems across countries and welcome submissions based on international
research settings. Quantitative, qualitative, or theoretical approaches to
investigate these issues are welcome. Empirical reports or case studies that
contribute general insights for economic issues in health IT research or
practice will be considered.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Important dates:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Special issue submission deadline: February 1, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">First round review decisions: April 15, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Revision deadline: July
1, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Final decision on acceptance: September 20, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Camera-ready copy: September
30, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Online publication: Winter,
2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Issue publication: January,
2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submissions should be 4000-8000 words and formatted
according to the journal’s instructions for authors (</span><a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/author_instructions.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/author_instructions.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">). Articles should be
submitted via the journal’s online submission system (</span><a href="http://hs.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://hs.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Guest editors</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Elizabeth J. Davidson [</span><a href="mailto:edavidso@hawaii.edu"><span style="color:#222222;text-decoration:none">edavidso@hawaii.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">]</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Professor, Shidler College of Business</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Hawaii Manoa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Guodong
(Gordon) Gao [<a href="mailto:ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu">ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu</a>]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Assistant
Professor, Robert H. School of Business</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">University
of Maryland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Jeffrey S.
McCullough [<a href="mailto:mccu0056@umn.edu">mccu0056@umn.edu</a>]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Assistant
Professor </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Division of
Health Policy and Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">University
of Minnesota</span><span class="pbody"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span class="pbody"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Guest associate editors</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Dorothea LaChon Abraham,The College of William and Mary</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Julia Adler-Milstein, University of
Michigan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Ravi Aron, Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">William Encinosa, Georgetown University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Nir Menachami, The University of Alabama
at Birmingham</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Ahbay Mishra, Georgia State University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Sharon Tan, National University of
Singapore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Florida International
University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Bengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Lu Yan, University of Indiana</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br>Guodong (Gordon) Gao<br>
Assistant Professor<div>Co-Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)<br>Decision, Operations and Information Technologies<br>Robert H. Smith School of Business<br>4325 Van Munching Hall<br>University of Maryland<br>
College Park, MD 20742-1815<br>TEL 301-405-2218<br>FAX 301- 405-8655 <br><a href="mailto:ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu" target="_blank">ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu</a> <br><a href="http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ggao/" target="_blank">http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ggao/</a><br>
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