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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Researchers and professionals,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please consider participating in the pre-ECIS 2014 workshop: "E-Health Adoption and Implementation", on June 8 in Tel-Aviv. Please find additional information here (the program can be found also below at the mail):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ecis2014.eu/">http://ecis2014.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ecis2014.eu/workshops-8-june/">http://ecis2014.eu/workshops-8-june/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=HE><a href="http://www.ono.ac.il/ECIS2014HITWorkshop" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>www.ono.ac.il/ECIS2014HITWorkshop</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best wishes!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andy, Reeva and Ofir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Title of the workshop</span></u></b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>:</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> E-Health Adoption and Implementation: Economic, social and behavioural factors and issues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Format of the workshop: 9:00am – 4pm, Sunday June 8<sup>th</sup>, Tel-Aviv University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>• Presentation of position papers, research in progress and completed research. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>• Panel discussion with international e-health experts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>• Practical exercises. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>• Presentation and discussion on how to publish in the e-Health area in both health and mainstream journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>• The best papers from this workshop will be considered for a fast track, special edition of the EJHI (<a href="http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi">http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Challenges in doing research in this area will be analyzed including the ethical hurdles in finding participants in the health sphere and getting access to sensitive study environments. Through the panel and discussion of the presented papers the workshop will examine the major themes for future research in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Motivation and Description:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The impact of IT innovations on the healthcare sector has been considerable. These innovations take many forms: For example, electronic health records, e-health, interoperable health information exchange networks, mobile health, telemedicine and personalized electronic health devices. However, the implementation of such IT solutions has still not been fully endorsed by physicians, despite their proven benefits. Certain issues must first be resolved to enable the healthcare sector to fully reap the benefits of these IT systems - especially regarding the adoption of these systems by the medical staff at points of care in the field. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The reasons for the poor level of use of IS in healthcare are linked to the lack of engagement between clinicians and healthcare executives, low IS maturity, inadequate IS business planning, and poor connections with IS suppliers responsible for designing and developing workable solutions. Apart from factors related to the IS itself or organizational aspects of communication between policy-making departments and the actual points of care, there are also physician-related factors that affect the adoption of IS. This complex array of determinants makes studying the adoption of health IS extremely difficult, and has precluded definitive conclusions. Nevertheless, there have been notable successful implementations of IT in the healthcare domain, and there is still work to be done in learning from successes and failures alike. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This workshop aims to provide an opportunity to explore, discuss and achieve deeper insights into the issues raised by attempts to computerize and digitize key aspects of the healthcare domain, issues associated with choosing to use IT, and possible operationalization of IT contributions to medical decision-making. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This field is unique in the sense that implementing IT bridges the gap between informatics and medical decisions per se. It also presents unique challenges, since the adoption of IT in the healthcare sector involves complex adaptations on the part of users. Moreover, research highlighting opportunities and challenges related to the role of distance health and mobile-health solutions in influencing medical outcomes is still under-developed and deserving of exploration. Also of interest is how personal health monitoring and the proliferation of on-line health information interact with traditional medical services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Registration</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The registration can be made via the main ECIS2014 registration site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PROGRAM FOR THE WORKSHOP</span></u></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: </span><span lang=HE style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ono.ac.il/ECISWorkshopProgram"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.ono.ac.il/ECISWorkshopProgram</span></a></span><b><u><span lang=HE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=right><table class=MsoNormalTable dir=rtl border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'></td><td width=246 style='width:184.5pt;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'><div align=right><table class=MsoNormalTable dir=rtl border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=274 style='width:205.55pt'><tr><td width=270 colspan=2 style='width:202.55pt;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-left:right;mso-element-top:middle;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#949929'>With regards, </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=270 colspan=2 style='width:202.55pt;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-left:right;mso-element-top:middle;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#656467'>Dr. Ofir Ben Assuli, PH.D. </span></b><span 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