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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></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">AMCIS 2015: 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%">August
13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico</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%">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 2015
conference to the mini-track on: <b style>“Information
Technology for Global Health”,</b> mini-track at the 21st Americas Conference
on Information Systems (AMCIS) to be held in Puerto Rico on August 13-15, 2015.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></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 and groundbreaking health IT solutions to improve general population
and community healthcare across the globe, including low-cost, mobile and other
emerging 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 and suitable research in
progress 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><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Comparisons of regional
strategies and application</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><span style lang="EN-CA"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Specific 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">Submit your manuscript before February 25, 2015 at <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015</a></p>
<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. <br></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, 2015 – 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">February 25, 2015 – 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">May 5, 2015 – Final decisions
on AMCIS 2015 program are made</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style>Minitrack Chairs</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair: Joseph Tan, McMaster University, <a href="mailto:tanjosep@mcmaster.ca">tanjosep@mcmaster.ca</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Co-Chair: Jim Ryan, Troy University, <a href="mailto:jeryan@troy.edu">jeryan@troy.edu</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Co-Chair: Michael S. Dohan, Lakehead University, <a href="mailto:msdohan@lakeheadu.ca">msdohan@lakeheadu.ca</a></p>
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