<div dir="ltr"><br><div><p align="center" style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center">You are invited to submit a paper to the HICSS-47 conference to the mini-track on:<br>“<b>Global Health IT Strategies and Applications</b>”<br>
Part of the Information Technology in Healthcare Track of the Forty-Seventh Annual<br>Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)<br>Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island - January 6 - 9, 2014</p><p align="center" style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center">
</p><p align="center" style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"> <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm</a> </p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The global proliferation of information and communication technologies, along with improved mobile computing accessibility, enhanced security and cloud-based data exchanges have germinated interests in those seeking to apply existing and emerging information technologies to address health issues throughout diverse regions of the world. These applications and solutions can vary widely depending on the resources; infrastructure and culture inherent to regions. These include global health education systems, emerging low-cost mobile health apps for all healthcare actors, public health monitoring and tracking systems, emergency response systems, as well as traditional telemedicine applications. These efforts are already impacting the rapid growth and further development of global healthcare solutions and applications arising from the active collaboration among cross-disciplinary researchers, multinational agencies and international clinical practitioners </p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This minitrack will examine similarities and differences in how regions as diverse as North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia and the Middle-East approach to healthimprovements. This includes emerging trends for applying innovative health IT solutions to improve general population and community health care across the globe, including low-cost, mobile and other emerging health technological applications. These solutions will provide a multinational perspective on the benefits of mobile health and other emerging information technologies and describes different examples and applications implemented.</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Global Health Strategy and Applications relate to an emerging trend for applying innovative health IT solutions to improve population health and community health care across the globe, emphasizing low-cost, mobile and other emerging health technological applications. These solutions will provide a multinational perspective on the benefits of mobile health and other emerging information technologies and describes different examples and applications implemented. </p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Reviews of global health IT development</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Comparisons of regional strategies and applications</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Proposals for development, extensions and improvements of global health innovations and solutions</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Examination of strategies and approaches of technology transfer among different countries (e.g, global health IT governance; multi-national health services networks and architectures, open source applications, etc.)</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Studies on the impact of the adoption of innovative (e.g., low-cost) technologies</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
- Specific applications, including epidemiological surveillance systems, emergency and disaster response systems, and chronic disease management systems</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
- Public health and environmental health monitoring and tracking systems</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Methodological issues pertaining to the evaluation of global health technologies and initiatives</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Socio-cultural-policy assessments of Health IT priorities</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Trans-jurisdictional issues surrounding the implementation of Health technologies and initiatives</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Impact of regional strategies and culture of nature and styles of Health IT implementation</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b>Minitrack Co-Chairs</b></p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Joseph Tan (Primary Contact)<br>DeGroote School of Business Administration<br>McMaster University<br>1280 Main St. W., Hamilton ON L8S 4M4<br>
Direct Phone: +1-905-845-1038<br>Departmental Phone: +1-905-525-9140 x 26166<br><a href="mailto:tanjosep@mcmaster.ca" target="_blank">tanjosep@mcmaster.ca</a></p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Sarah L. Patrick<br>Associate Professor of Epidemiology<br>Saint Louis University<br>School of Public Health<br>3545 Lafayette Avenue, Room 475<br>Saint Louis, Missouri 63104<br>(314) 977-8108<br><a href="mailto:spatric3@slu.edu" target="_blank">spatric3@slu.edu</a></p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Michael Dohan<br>Lecturer<br>Lakehead University<br>Faculty of Business Administration<br>Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br>Phone: +1-807-343 8635<br>Departmental Phone: +1-807-343-8386<br>
<a href="mailto:msdohan@lakeheadu.ca" target="_blank">msdohan@lakeheadu.ca</a> </p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>How to Submit a Paper</b></p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference website: <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm</a></p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Selected best papers will be fast-tracked for publication review and consideration into <i>Health Policy & Technology </i>and/or the <i>International Journal of Healthcare Information & Informatics</i>. </p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Important 2013 Deadlines for Authors</b></p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- June 15 - Submit full manuscripts for review as instructed.</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Aug 15 - Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Sept 15 - SUBMIT FINAL PAPER.</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Oct 1 - Early Registration fee deadline.</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Oct 15 - Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.</p>
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