[AISWorld] CFP HICSS49 Mini-track on Technology Mediated Collaborations in Healthcare

Tue Jun 9 00:16:06 EDT 2015

  Call for Papers:Technology Mediated Collaborations in e-HealthCollaborationSystems and Technologies TrackForty-ninth Hawaii InternationalConference on System Sciences (January 5-8, 2016)Grand Hyatt, Kauai Mini-track Co-Chairs:      
|  Souren Paul Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences Nova Southeastern University 3301 College Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 USA Phone: + 1 (954) 262-2047 Fax: + 1 (954) 262-3915 Souren.paul at gmail.com  |  Arkalgud Ramaprasad Department of Information & Decision Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607 Phone: +1 (312) 772-3819 prasad at uic.edu  |  Nilmini Wickramasinghe Epworth HealthCare SBITL & HIRI RMIT University Building 108 Level 17 239 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 2000 Australia Phone: +61 3 9925 5783 Fax: +61 3 9925 5850 nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au  |

 Todayall countries (developed, developing, and emerging) are faced withexponentially increasing costs for healthcare delivery coupled with challengesof changing demographics as well as an increase in chronic diseases.  There is a growing need to deliver moreeffective and efficient healthcare.  Toaddress this situation we are witnessing the application of various eHealthsolutions to support superior healthcare delivery.  All these efforts represent applications ofcollaboration technologies.Inthe light of these healthcare reforms collaboration technologies are being usedin research, practice, and management. They have potential for even greater use.  Geographically dispersed health professionalscan use collaboration technology to communicate with each other, review patientrecords, manage workflows, and improve the delivery of patient care.  Similarly, geographically non-collocatedresearchers can collaborate with each other.  The problem being addressed by this mini-trackis encapsulated in the attached ontology. Thefive primary stakeholders in healthcare: researchers, clinicians, nurses,patients, and administrators form the basis of any partnership in health care.  They are listed under the two partnershipsub-dimensions.  Software Agents/Bots whichare playing an increasing independent role in the delivery of healthcare havebeen added to the list of partners.  Apartnership may be between two researchers, a researcher and a clinician, apatient and a nurse, etc.  These dyadsare summarized by the two columns under partners.  There may also be triadic and higher orderpartnerships among these partners. Thepartnerships may be based on an exchange of data, analysis, diagnosis, or treatmentsingly or in combination. These are listed under the content dimension of theontology. Thus collaboration between two researchers may use data, between apatient and a nurse may be for diagnosis or treatment, and so on.TheMedia for partnership may be Personal, Social, Mass, or Institutional. Theontology lists the key media in healthcare in each of the categories.  Thus, for example, researchers may exchangeanalysis via personal media, patients may exchange treatments via social media,and clinicians and administrators may exchange data via institutional media. Thepurpose of the collaboration may be care, research, administration, education ora combination of the four.  These arelisted under the purpose dimension of the ontology.  Thus collaboration between two researchersusing data may be for research, and between a patient and a clinician may befor diagnosis for care. Inthe attached ontology, there are a very large number of basic types of collaborationsone can consider in healthcare.  The numberwill change if the dimensions and categories are modified. In a practicalcontext multiple combinations will likely coexist.  A clinician-patient collaboration using data viaindividual media for care may be supplemented by a nurse-patient collaborationusing social media for education.Technology’s impact on the efficiency andeffectiveness of these collaborations will be determined by the architecture ofthe technology, the systems developed around it, and the strategy forimplementing it.  The efficacy of thearchitecture will determine the efficacy of the system, and the efficacy of thesystem will determine the efficacy of the strategy. Thus the three categoriesunder the technology dimension in the ontology.The ontology provides a framework for fitting thepieces of the puzzle, synthesizing what is known, determining the gaps, anddirecting future research on the topic.  Moreover,it serves to provide a framework for facilitating the design and implementationof successful eHealth solutions.  Weinvite papers focusing any one or many of the innumerable combinations in theontology.  Further, we welcome papers whichaddress the state-of-the-art, state-of-the-need, and the state-of-the-practiceof these combinations.We strongly encourage authors to submit originalcontributions where innovative ideas, implementations, and empirical studiesare described.  The technologicalcontributions can highlight applications, systems, and methodological issues onthe development and/or implementation of collaborative systems inhealthcare.  The social, organizational,and behavioral contributions can report the outcome of empirical studies ontechnology mediated collaboration in healthcare.  SubmissionProcess:Full paper submissions mustbe made electronically through the HICSS on-line submission system at https://precisionconference.com/~hicss by June 15, 2015. Papers should not exceed ten pages and the initial submission will nothave author names. Please check the above web site or contact the mini-trackco-chairs for more information.Key Dates:Full Papers Due: June 15, 2015(midnight Hawaii Time); Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2015Final Paper Due: September15, 2015 (11:59 PM Pacific timezone).  At least one authorof each paper should register by this date.  This is the Early Registration fee deadline.
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