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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">Call for Papers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">AMCIS 2014:
20th Americas Conference on Information Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Savannah,
Georgia, August 7-10, 2014</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Track:
Healthcare Information Systems and Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Mini-track:
<b style>Information Technology for Global Health</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%"><b style><br></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You are invited to submit a paper to the AMCIS 2014
conference to the mini-track on: <b style>“Information
Technology for Global Health”,</b> mini-track at the 20th Americas Conference
on Information Systems (AMCIS) to be held in Savanna Georgia on August 7-10,
2014.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As global interconnectedness increases, the impact of health
problems are not efficiently addressed from a purely national standpoint.
Therefore, a concerted effort among governments, multidisciplinary efforts, and
other institutions, in efforts that span national boundaries, is the new emerging
approach to deal with these issues. This approach, known as global health,
entails using this multidimensional approach to address transnational health
issues, specifically including HIV/AIDS, rural healthcare service delivery, and
other health issues affecting the world population.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This minitrack will explore emerging trends for applying
innovative health IT solutions to improve general population and community
healthcare 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.
This minitrack will consider empirical research, reviews of current literature,
theory, methodology, as well as relevant position papers.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The following types of submissions will be considered:</p>
<ul><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Reviews of global health IT
development</span></li><li>C<span lang="EN-CA">omparisons of regional
strategies and applications</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Proposals for development,
extensions and improvements of global health innovations and solutions</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">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.)</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Analytics, data science, data
mining or intelligence studies related to global health</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Studies on the impact of the
adoption of innovative (e.g., low-cost) technologies</span></li><li>S<span lang="EN-CA">pecific applications,
including epidemiological surveillance systems, emergency and disaster response
systems, and chronic disease management systems</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Public health and environmental
health monitoring and tracking systems</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Methodological issues
pertaining to the evaluation of global health technologies and initiatives</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Socio-cultural-policy
assessments of Health IT priorities</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Trans-jurisdictional issues
surrounding the implementation of Health technologies and initiatives</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Impact of regional strategies
and culture of nature and styles of Health IT implementation</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style>How to Submit a Paper</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style><br></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submit your manuscript before March 1, 2014 at <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Selected best papers will be fast-tracked for publication
review and consideration into Health Policy & Technology and/or the
International Journal of Healthcare Information & Informatics.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style>Important Dates</i></b></p>
<ul><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">January 5, 2014 – Manuscript
Submission Opens</span></li><li><span style="color:red" lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b style><span style="color:red" lang="EN-CA">March 1, 2014 – Submission Deadline</span></b></li>
<li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">April 4, 2014 – Author
Notification</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">April 18, 2014 – Revision
Deadline</span></li><li><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">April 25, 2014 – Camera Ready
Submission Deadline</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style>Minitrack Chairs</i></b></p>
<ul><li>Chair: Joseph Tan, McMaster University, <a href="mailto:tanjosep@mcmaster.ca">tanjosep@mcmaster.ca</a> </li><li>Co-Chair: Jim Ryan, Troy University, <a href="mailto:jeryan@troy.edu">jeryan@troy.edu</a></li><li>Co-Chair: Michael S. Dohan, Lakehead University, <a href="mailto:msdohan@lakeheadu.ca">msdohan@lakeheadu.ca</a></li>
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