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</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">Today
all countries (developed, developing, and emerging) are faced with
exponentially increasing costs for healthcare delivery coupled with challenges
of changing demographics as well as an increase in chronic diseases. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">There is a growing need to deliver more
effective and efficient healthcare. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">To
address this situation we are witnessing the application of various eHealth
solutions to support superior healthcare delivery. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">All these efforts represent applications of
collaboration technologies.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">In
the light of these healthcare reforms collaboration technologies are being used
in research, practice, and management.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">They have potential for even greater use. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Geographically dispersed health professionals
can use collaboration technology to communicate with each other, review patient
records, manage workflows, and improve the delivery of patient care.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Similarly, geographically non-collocated
researchers can collaborate with each other. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The problem being addressed by this mini-track
is encapsulated in the attached ontology. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">The
five primary stakeholders in healthcare: researchers, clinicians, nurses,
patients, and administrators form the basis of any partnership in health care. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">They are listed under the two partnership
sub-dimensions. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Software Agents/Bots which
are playing an increasing independent role in the delivery of healthcare have
been added to the list of partners.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">A
partnership may be between two researchers, a researcher and a clinician, a
patient and a nurse, etc. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">These dyads
are summarized by the two columns under partners. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">There may also be triadic and higher order
partnerships among these partners. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">The
partnerships may be based on an exchange of data, analysis, diagnosis, or treatment
singly or in combination. These are listed under the content dimension of the
ontology. Thus collaboration between two researchers may use data, between a
patient and a nurse may be for diagnosis or treatment, and so on.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">The
Media for partnership may be Personal, Social, Mass, or Institutional. The
ontology lists the key media in healthcare in each of the categories. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Thus, for example, researchers may exchange
analysis via personal media, patients may exchange treatments via social media,
and clinicians and administrators may exchange data via institutional media. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">The
purpose of the collaboration may be care, research, administration, education or
a combination of the four. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">These are
listed under the purpose dimension of the ontology. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Thus collaboration between two researchers
using data may be for research, and between a patient and a clinician may be
for diagnosis for care. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">In
the above ontology, there are a very large number of ba</font></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">sic types of collaborations
one can consider in healthcare. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The number
will change if the dimensions and categories are modified. In a practical
context multiple combinations will likely coexist. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">A clinician-patient collaboration using data via
individual media for care may be supplemented by a nurse-patient collaboration
using social media for education.</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">Technology’s impact on the efficiency and
effectiveness of these collaborations will be determined by the architecture of
the technology, the systems developed around it, and the strategy for
implementing it. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The efficacy of the
architecture will determine the efficacy of the system, and the efficacy of the
system will determine the efficacy of the strategy. Thus the three categories
under the technology dimension in the ontology.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">The ontology provides a framework for fitting the
pieces of the puzzle, synthesizing what is known, determining the gaps, and
directing future research on the topic. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Moreover,
it serves to provide a framework for facilitating the design and implementation
of successful eHealth solutions. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">We
invite papers focusing any one or many of the innumerable combinations in the
ontology. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Further, we welcome papers which
address the state-of-the-art, state-of-the-need, and the state-of-the-practice
of these combinations.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">We strongly encourage authors to submit original
contributions where innovative ideas, implementations, and empirical studies
are described.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The technological
contributions can highlight applications, systems, and methodological issues on
the development and/or implementation of collaborative systems in
healthcare.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The social, organizational,
and behavioral contributions can report the outcome of empirical studies on
technology mediated collaboration in healthcare.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Process</font></span></u><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">:</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Full paper submissions must
be made electronically through the HICSS on-line submission system at </font></span><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~hicss"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman">https://precisionconference.com/~hicss</font></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"> by June 15, 2014.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">Papers should not exceed ten pages and the initial submission will not
have author names. Please check the above web site or contact the mini-track
co-chairs for more information.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><u><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">Key Dates</font></span></u><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">:</font></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Full Papers Due: June 15, 2014
(midnight Hawaii Time); Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2014</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">Final Paper Due: September 15, 2014 </font><b><font color="#000000">(</font><strong><font color="#000000">11:59 PM Pacific time zone).</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></strong></b><font color="#000000">At least one author of each
paper should register by this date. </font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">This
is the Early Registration fee deadline.</font></span></div>