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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Subject: Volume 1, Issue 2 of <em>Health Systems </em>Journal</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Dear AIS World Colleagues:</span><span style="font-family: "><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">We are pleased to announce publication of Volume 1, Issue 2 of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Health Systems</em> journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/journal/v1/n2/index.html"><span style="font-family: ">www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/journal/v1/n2/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: ">. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Health Systems</em> journal is a sister journal to EJIS and JORS. </span><span style="font-family: "><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">Table of Contents</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2012)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: ">Position Paper (available free on line)</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Healthcare information systems: a patient-user perspective</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Ray J. Paul, Inas Ezz and Jasna Kuljis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Health Syst 1: 85-95; doi: 10.1057/hs.2012.17</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: ">Original Articles</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Physician interactions with electronic health records in primary care</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Onur Asan and Enid Montague</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Health Syst 1: 96-103; advance online publication, August 31, 2012, doi: 10.1057/hs.2012.11</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Characterizing patient care in hospital emergency departments</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Mustafa Ozkaynak and Patricia Flatley Brennan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Health Syst 1: 104-117; advance online publication, October 26, 2012; doi: 10.1057/hs.2012.14</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Campaigns in context: promotion, seasonal variation, and resource factors predict mammography program participation</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Jane E. J. Ebert, Brian G. Southwell, Jonathan S. Slater and Christina L. Nelson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Health Syst 1: 118-128; advance online publication, August 24, 2012; doi: 10.1057/hs.2012.12</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: ">Review Article</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Peter J. H. Hulshof, Nikky Kortbeek, Richard J. Boucherie, Erwin W. Hans and Piet J. M. Bakker</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Health Syst 1: 129-175; doi: 10.1057/hs.2012.18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">Abstracts and some full articles are presently available at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: ">www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/journal/v1/n2/index.html</span><span style="font-family: "><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">Please consider Health Systems Journal as a possible outlet for your own high-quality, innovative research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Health Systems Journal is an international, interdisciplinary journal focusing on health and healthcare delivery from a systems perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It connects methodologies, insights and perspectives to advance health system knowledge in research and practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See </span></span><a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/area_editors.html"><span style="font-family: ">http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/area_editors.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "> for a listing of specific areas of coverage and area editors.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">For more information, please contact any of the Editors-in-Chiefs:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Dr. Cynthia M. LeRouge</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">lerougec@slu.edu</span></p>
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: ">Dr. Faye C</span><span style="font-family: ">obb Payton</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: ">Fay_payton@ncsu.edu</span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Dr. Paul Harper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><a href="mailto:harper@cardiff.ac.uk"><span style="font-family: ">harper@cardiff.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: "></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">Dr. Sally Brailsford</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -6.5pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: ">S.C.Brailsford@soton.ac.uk<span style="background: white;"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Associate Professor</span><br /><span style="text-align: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; ">Co-Editor Health Systems (</span><span style="text-align: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; ">http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/index.html)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">---------------------------------------</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Dept. of Health Management & Policy</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">School of Public Health</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Secondary Appt. Decision Sciences & IT Management Dept. - School of Business</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Saint Louis University</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Salus Center </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">3545 Lafayette Ave, Room 365</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Saint Louis, MO. 63104</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">Office: 314- 977-8195</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">lerougec@slu.edu</span></p>
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