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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:windowtext">CALL FOR PAPERS: 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Savannah, Georgia, August 7-10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:windowtext">Track: Health Information Systems and Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:windowtext">Mini-track: Electronic Medical/Health Records (EMRs/EHRs) in Healthcare Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><u><span style="color:windowtext">Mini-track Co-chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. C. Ranganathan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Department of Information & Decision Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">College of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Illinois at Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Email:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:ranga@uic.edu"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext">ranga@uic.edu</span></a>
</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. Balaji Sankaranarayanan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Department of Information and Process Management<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Bentley University<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Waltham, MA 02452, USA<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">E-mail: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:bsankara@bentley.edu"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext">bsankara@bentley.edu</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Dr. Gary David, Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Department of Sociology<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Bentley University<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Waltham, MA 02452, USA<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">E-mail: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:gdavid@bentley.edu"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext">gdavid@bentley.edu</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Description<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Electronic Medical/Health Records (EMRs/EHRs) are a critical component of the American health-care system, supporting doctor-patient interactions by providing instant access to a variety of documents such as historical
record of past treatments and conditions, patient billing, disputes and legal inquiries. The use of EMRs/EHRs faces distinctive challenges in larger hospital settings, as well as in smaller ambulatory practices including organizational challenges, resource
constraints, and technological bottlenecks. Notably, vendors have many EMR/EHR offerings depending on the type of practice; however anecdotal evidence points out that implementing these solutions has been fraught with serious challenges in terms of delivering
meaningful use. These differences highlight the need for in-depth multi-level examination of EMR/EHR in large, ambulatory and smaller healthcare practices.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The focus of this mini-track is on research on EMRs/EHRs in healthcare practices of various types such as large,
ambulatory and smaller practices, that furthers our understanding of (1) systems, processes and strategies for implementing EMR/EHR (2) Electronic exchange of healthcare information among different stakeholders, (3) Integration of mobile devices and medical
devices with healthcare systems 3) security and privacy issue associated with EMR/EHR in healthcare organizations.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The mini-track is open to broad survey articles, case studies, conceptual papers, descriptive reports, focused research
issues analyzed using a variety of tools and empirical methodologies including, but not limited to survey, experimental design, workflow and other forms of business process modeling, interviews, content analysis, and various qualitative approaches. You are
welcome to submit work that is not fully completed as long as the importance of the problem is well-established, paper is well articulated and fits with the themes of the research track. However, completed research will receive precedence.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Suggested Topics<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The topics that characterize this mini-track are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Implementation of EMR/EHR systems in healthcare practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Value proposition of EMR/EHR systems
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interconnectivity and information sharing between EMR/EHR systems across practices and hospitals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Improvement in healthcare process through EMR/EHR systems
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Implementing electronic prescribing and practice management systems by healthcare providers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Work flow redesign in healthcare practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Achieving meaningful use by healthcare providers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Health Information Exchanges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Challenges and issues of sharing electronic health information among different stakeholders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Enhancing security and privacy in electronic exchange of healthcare information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Integration of Medical Devices (such as Vital signs monitor, EKG and ECG machines etc.) with EMR/EHR systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mobile devices (smart phones, tablet PCs, iPads etc.) and EMR/EHR systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mobile personal health records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Balaji Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Assistant Professor, IPM Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Bentley University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">175 Forest Street, Smith 402<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Waltham, MA 02452<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Office: (781) 891 2068 Fax: (781) 891 2949<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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