[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Health IT and Economics at the Journal of Health Systems

[Guodong (Gordon) Gao]

*Special Issue of Health Systems*

*Health IT and Economics *

*Guest editors: Elizabeth J. Davidson, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Jeffrey S.
McCullough*



Curbing the growth of healthcare costs while improving quality and
efficiency is challenging globally. Information technologies (IT) hold the
potential to transform healthcare delivery to achieve these varied goals.
Important IT applications include electronic medical records, telemedicine,
remote monitoring devices, personal health records, and health information
exchanges. Health service providers and payers such as governments and
insurance companies are rapidly adopting new technologies and systems.
Consumer access to health information via the Internet and mobile devices
is growing rapidly as well.



With this rapid digitization, the economics of healthcare delivery are
being reshaped. Improved patient information can, for example, help
providers and policies makers to better optimize healthcare resource
allocation and decision-making. Information technology can substitute or
complement labor inputs in some areas to increase the productivity of
health services delivery.  Electronic markets for health insurance provide
additional channels for competition among payers, while online information
might affect patients’ choice of providers and procedures. Investments in
health IT are substantial, however, as are the social and organizational
efforts to realize economic benefits. In particular, healthcare providers
face significant costs to invest in health IT and uncertain economic gain
from doing so.



This special issue calls for research focused on the changing landscape of
economics of health IT.  *Health Systems* (
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/index.html) is an interdisciplinary
journal that promotes a systems view of health and healthcare delivery and
a holistic understanding of how people, organizations, technology and
resources are interrelated in health systems change and improvement. This
special issue will focus on the economic issues of health IT within the
mission of the journal.  Health IT and economics have been explored in
fields including medicine, medical informatics, public health, management,
information systems, computer science, and economics. The special issue is
multidisciplinary and will help generate synergies across individual
disciplines to deepen understanding of the impact of IT on health systems.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:



·        Costs and benefits of health IT adoption and use at provider,
organizational, regional or national levels of analysis;

·        Multi-level analysis or modeling of economic drivers of health IT
adoption and use;

·        Challenges of and methods for assessment of returns on health IT
investments;

·        Evaluation of measures and incentives for meaningful use to
achieve health system goals of quality improvement and cost containment;

·        Business and sustainability models for health information
exchanges;

·        New IT-enabled forms of health services production;

·        Economic implications of patient information seeking, consumption,
and decision making;

·        Quality transparency and public reporting via health IT;

·        Health IT implications for market competition, health insurance
exchanges, and regulation.



We are interested in the diversity of healthcare systems across countries
and welcome submissions based on international research settings.
Quantitative, qualitative, or theoretical approaches to investigate these
issues are welcome. Empirical reports or case studies that contribute
general insights for economic issues in health IT research or practice will
be considered.





*Important dates:*



Special issue submission deadline:                                 February
1, 2013

First round review decisions:                                         April
15, 2013

Revision deadline:
July 1, 2013

Final decision on acceptance:
September 20, 2013

Camera-ready copy:
September 30, 2013

Online publication:
Winter, 2013

Issue publication:
January, 2014



Submissions should be 4000-8000 words and formatted according to the
journal’s instructions for authors (
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/author_instructions.html). Articles
should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system (
http://hs.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex).



*Guest editors*

Elizabeth J. Davidson [edavidso at hawaii.edu]

Professor, Shidler College of Business

University of Hawaii Manoa



Guodong (Gordon) Gao [ggao at rhsmith.umd.edu]

Assistant Professor, Robert H. School of Business

University of Maryland



Jeffrey S. McCullough [mccu0056 at umn.edu]

Assistant Professor

Division of Health Policy and Management

University of Minnesota



*Guest associate editors*

Dorothea LaChon Abraham,The College of William and Mary

Julia Adler-Milstein, University of Michigan

Ravi Aron, Johns Hopkins University

William Encinosa, Georgetown University

Nir Menachami, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ahbay Mishra, Georgia State University

Sharon Tan, National University of Singapore

Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Florida International University

Bengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic University

Lu Yan, University of Indiana

-- 
Guodong (Gordon) Gao
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
Decision, Operations and Information Technologies
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4325 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
TEL 301-405-2218
FAX 301- 405-8655
ggao at rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ggao/
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