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<b><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">INFORMS healthcare Conference 2015</span></font></b></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/healthcare2015/" target="_blank">http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/healthcare2015/</a></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nashville Tennessee, July 29031, 2015</span></font></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cluster: Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) in Healthcare, Organized by the AIS SIG-Health</span></b></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track 1: IS&T for Improving the Healthcare Process and System
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Healthcare providers across a variety of healthcare settings (i.e. hospitals, ambulatory clinics, or in the home) implement information systems and technology to increase productivity, decrease
costs, and improve the quality of care.<span style=""> </span>Such investments can focus on EHR and their supported applications, mobile technologies and tele-health solutions, and even policy changes. Such large IS&T investment to improve healthcare processes
has projected significant value gains.<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately, the actual process improvements often fall short of expectations or even fail to deliver.<span style="">
</span>Recognizing that significant healthcare improvements require more than just deploying IS&T, this session seeks research that investigates system-level opportunities, challenges, benefits and value achieved through the application of IS&T within healthcare
processes.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The session will focus on macro-level IS&T research that provides a system-level perspective where the system is a healthcare system.<span style="">
</span>We welcome multi-disciplinary projects different research methods including qualitative, quantitative, and design science approaches.
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track 2: IS&T for Improving Individuals’ Interactions with the Healthcare System</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> New and innovative information systems and technologies (IS&T) and associated data and applications are proliferating in the healthcare environment. These systems facilitate and improve
an increasing number of health interactions through a wide variety of new technologies being developed and implemented, e.g., personal health trackers, mobile apps, sensors, EHR extensions / add-ons, personal health records, in-home support for elderly or
disabled, portable devices for screening and diagnostics, and many more. These systems have far reaching consequences on the different stakeholders they touch, ranging from patients and their caregivers, to clinicians and nurses and also consumers.
<span style=""> </span>While intended to provide positive value, much remains unknown about the impact on the individual. Furthermore, many more improvements can be made at different decision intervals including: prevention, consultation, diagnosis, care coordination,
care provision, recovery, maintenance, and end of life decisions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This session will focus on micro-level IS&T research that provides an individual-level perspective, where the individual can be any of the stakeholders in healthcare. We are particularly
interested in specific technologies, visualizations, or analytics that have been designed, tested, and evaluated for a specific healthcare context, interaction, or decision point.</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission Information:</span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Authors are required to submit a 2-page extended abstract for review.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission details are available here:
<a href="http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/healthcare2015/abstract-submission/" target="_blank">
http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/healthcare2015/abstract-submission/</a></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deadline of submission: March 1, 2015.</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizers:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cluster Chair: Gondy Leroy, PhD, University of Arizona,
<a href="mailto:gondyleroy@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">gondyleroy@email.arizona.edu</a>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track 1 Chair: Jim Ryan, PhD, Troy University,
<a href="mailto:jeryan@troy.edu" target="_blank">jeryan@troy.edu</a> <br>
Track 2 Chair: Benjamin Schooley, PhD, University of South Carolina, <span class="MsoHyperlink">
<a href="mailto:ben.schooley@sc.edu" target="_blank">ben.schooley@sc.edu</a></span>
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</span></font></font></font></font>Management Information Systems<br>
Eller College of Management, University of Arizona<br>
<i>Faculty: <a href="http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/gleroy.asp" target="_blank">
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