<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call For Papers: Information Systems Frontiers - Special Issue on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Data analytics is already making large impacts in finance, manufacturing, retail, and social networks. The healthcare industry, too, is undergoing dramatic transformation in promoting patient centric services and evidence based reasoning in treatment and care delivery. Big data will play an important role in this transformation. Thus, there is growing interest in efficient healthcare data acquisition, processing and analysis across different healthcare organizations. However, current healthcare information systems are still lacking in successful implementation of big data solutions. The heterogeneous and rapidly expanding nature of healthcare data also poses challenges for big data projects. In the face of these challenges, this special issue is intended for IS researchers to disseminate cutting-edge research that provides insights into the challenges, opportunities, novel strategies, and analytic tools and techniques for dealing with big data in healthcare. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some indicative themes might include: </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Health services perspectives </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Data-driven optimal planning and scheduling </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Using analytics to improve healthcare outcomes (patient safety, medical error reduction etc.) </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Developing data-driven systems that better support patient-provider interaction </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Improving healthcare workflow and process efficiency </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Supporting practice at a distance (telehealth) </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Public health perspectives </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Improving government and community health policy making </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Detecting disease outbreaks & biological threats using analytics </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Systems for monitoring and managing population health </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Delivering health information and knowledge to the public </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Consumer health perspectives </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Personal health records </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Self-care systems </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Social media </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Internet health </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Forms of submission:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">====================</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The areas covered by this special issue have been attractive topics at conferences such as the BDAH 2014 Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, Singapore. In the case of papers from the conference, the submission is required to be a substantial revision of the conference publication and the authors will be required to submit a letter detailing the difference between their conference paper and the new version. All submitted papers will go through peer review and if the paper does not receive a satisfactory review, it will not be considered for the special issue. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission Instruction:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=======================</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Manuscripts must be submitted to the ISF-Springer online submission system at: <a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/" target="_blank">http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/</a>. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information Systems Frontiers available at: <a href="http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796</a> </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions should be approximately 32 pages double spaced including references. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">================ </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2014 </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Initial review report: 15th February 2015 </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Final Revised Manuscript: Due 15th May 2015 </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publication Issue TBA </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Guest Editors:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">==============</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore (<a href="mailto:atreyi@comp.nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">atreyi@comp.nus.edu.sg</a>)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore (<a href="mailto:jungpil@nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">jungpil@nus.edu.sg</a> )</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Sharon Tan, National University of Singapore (<a href="mailto:tansl@comp.nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">tansl@comp.nus.edu.sg</a>)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gordon Gao, University of Maryland (<a href="mailto:ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu" target="_blank">ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu</a>)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Senior Guest Editors:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=====================</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hock-Hai Teo, National University of Singapore </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Danny Poo, National University of Singapore </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The full CFP announcement can be found at: <a href="http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP-ISF-SI-BigData.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP-ISF-SI-BigData.pdf</a></div>
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