[AISWorld] Call for Participation: Pre-ECIS 2014 Workshop "E-Health Adoption and Implementation"

[Ofir Ben Assuli]

Dear Researchers and professionals,

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):

http://ecis2014.eu/

http://ecis2014.eu/workshops-8-june/ 

 <http://www.ono.ac.il/ECIS2014HITWorkshop>
www.ono.ac.il/ECIS2014HITWorkshop

 

Best wishes!

Andy, Reeva and Ofir.

 

 

 

Title of the workshop: E-Health Adoption and Implementation: Economic,
social and behavioural factors and issues

Format of the workshop: 9:00am - 4pm, Sunday June 8th, Tel-Aviv University.

.           Presentation of position papers, research in progress and
completed research.  

.           Panel discussion with international e-health experts. 

.           Practical exercises. 

.           Presentation and discussion on how to publish in the e-Health
area in both health and mainstream journals.

.           The best papers from this workshop will be considered for a fast
track, special edition of the EJHI (http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi).

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.

Motivation and Description:

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Registration: The registration can be made via the main ECIS2014
registration site.

PROGRAM FOR THE WORKSHOP:  <http://www.ono.ac.il/ECISWorkshopProgram>
http://www.ono.ac.il/ECISWorkshopProgram 

 

 

	

With regards, 


Dr. Ofir Ben Assuli, PH.D. 


Senior Lecturer & Researcher

Information Systems and Medical Decision Making
Ono Academic College 


03-5311919 

Office:


 <mailto:ofir at ono.ac.il> ofir at ono.ac.il 

Email:


 <http://www.ono.ac.il/> www.ono.ac.il 

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