[AISWorld] ECIS 25: Health Information Technology

[Wessel, Lauri]

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Dear IS community

Heiiko Gewald, Nilmini Wickramasinghe and myself are organizing the track “Health Information Technology” at the European Conference on Information (ECIS) 2025 in Amman, Jordan (June 12th- June 18th 2025). Please do consider submitting your best work in the health care IT space to our track! More information can be found below and via https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-17.

Kind regards

Heiiko, Nilmini and Lauri

Track 17 „Health Information Technology“


  *   Heiko Gewald, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany. heiko.gewald at hnu.de<https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/heiko.gewald@hnu.de>
  *   Nilmini Wickramasinghe, La Trobe University, Australia. nilmini.work at gmail.com<https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/nilmini.work@gmail.com>
  *   Lauri Wessel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. wessel at europa-uni.de<https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/wessel@europa-uni.de>

Track Description Healthcare systems worldwide face monumental challenges in delivering quality care to an expanding aging population while also grappling with the escalating burden of chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. These challenges are further compounded by the urgent need to contain rising costs and improve access to care. Moreover, there is a growing emphasis on prevention alongside treatment, underscoring the importance of promoting health-conscious behaviors through computing in peoples’ daily lives. Practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers from various fields, including information systems, computer science, and medicine, widely acknowledge that leveraging data meaningfully is essential to addressing these issues. Indeed, recent advancements in computing technologies, coupled with the abundance of data and the broader scope of artificial intelligence (AI), are often hailed as pivotal in reshaping healthcare for a digital era.

Health IT holds the potential to significantly impact the management of these challenges and bolster a healthcare value proposition centered on improved quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of care. However, to date, there remains a dearth of evidence regarding whether Health IT effectively fulfills this promise, and the anticipated benefits of IT have yet to be fully realized. In essence, the question of whether and how digital innovations will propel the digital transformation of healthcare remains pivotal and warrants investigation from various perspectives, employing diverse methodologies, and spanning multiple levels of analysis.
This track solicits conceptual, empirical, and design science research, as well as research-in-progress papers, that tackle this dilemma and contribute to our understanding of all aspects of digital health.

We seek papers addressing:
• The challenges of the ageing population.
• The management of chronic diseases .
• Innovative measures to prevent diseases and/or promote healthy living.
• Mobile health solutions and digital assistants.
• The application of AI in digital health scenarios and the impact of AI on healthcare (please note that the actual development of AI algorithms should be directed to the appropriate track on AI development) .

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Digital interventions and persuasive technologies to foster behavioral change.
• Telemedicine and telehealth and their measurable impact on health, well-being, financials, and other types of value.
• Adoption, diffusion, and assimilation of health information systems within healthcare institutions and beyond.
• Wearable health devices and their health outcomes.
• Virtual Communities and their impact on patient empowerment and patient safety.
• User-Generated Content and its impact on healthcare practices and providers.
• Health IT for the physically and cognitively challenged.
• Design and implementation of health information technologies.
• Evaluations of EMR, EHR or PHR solutions.
• Privacy and security of health information.
• Healthcare analytics and corresponding data visualization.
• Healthcare analytics and their impacts on integration of care.
• Specific IT/IS adoption and usage patterns of the elderly.
• Digital health platforms and communities for the elderly.
• The impact of technology usage on well-being of the elderly.
• Theories and research frameworks for investigating age-related IS phenomena.
• Methodological challenges of investigating elderly people’s technology usage.
• Impact of technology training on elderly’s perceptions and behaviors.
• Effective design of digital technologies for elderly people.
• Computer and IT-related self-efficacy of the elderly.
• Understanding of elderly people’s technology needs, expectations, and requirements.
• User interface design, usability and accessibility issues.
• Integration of elderly people in the design of technology.
• Non-intrusive or minimally intrusive surveillance for independent living.
• Design requirements for technologies supporting independent living .
• Medication management, compliance, training, and safety for independent living .
• Visions for future technologies for elderly people.
• IOT technologies for assisted living.
• Meta-analyses and meta-syntheses of research on elderly people and IS .
• IT-Security for elderly people (esp. phishing, scamming etc.).
• Trust and distrust of elderly people in digital technologies.
• How IT has enabled and supported patient-centered value-based care.
• Health-related Social Media for the elderly.
• Patient-, caregiver-, guardian-, and clinician-centric design methods.
• Convergence and management of consumer and medical devices, informatics, and systems.
• Management and implementation of value-based care.
• Transformations of IT governance in health care organizations.
• Designing and evaluating AI for improving digital health.
• The impact of AI on work practices in healthcare.

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
Outstanding papers will be directed to Senior Editors of leading IS journals and Health IT journals.

Associated Editors
Aycan Aslan, University of Goettingen
Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rüdiger Breitschwerdt, Mobile University of Technology
Philipp Brune, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Kourosh Dadgar, University of San Francisco
Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock
Burkhardt Funk, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Michael Gau, University of Liechtenstein
Maike Greve, University of Goettingen
Maximilian Haug, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Mirou Jaana, University of Ottawa
Tobias Kowatsch, University of St.Gallen
Peter Liang, Louisiana State University
Tobias Mettler, University of Lausanne
Claudia Mueller, University of Siegen
Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, TBS Education
Christoph Peters, St Gallen University
Oliver Posegga, University of Bamberg
Sven Rehm, EM Strasbourg Business School
Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, University of Twente
Peggy Richter, Technical University of Dresden
Bjoern Schreiweis, University of Kiel
Heinz-Theo Wagner, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Alex Wang, Edith Cowan University
Andy Weeger, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Amir Andfargoli, Swinburne University of Technology
Frada Burstein, Monash University
Abdur Forkan, Swinburne University of Technology
Prem Jayaraman, Swinburne University of Technology
Blooma John, Canberra University
Reeva Lederman, University of Melbourne
Navin Misser, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Juergen Seitz, DHBW Heidenheim
Indrit Troshani, University of Adelaide
Alex Kempton, University of Oslo
Mads Solberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hannes Schlieter, TU Dresden
Manuel Trenz, University of Goettingen
Ali Sunyaev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Prof. Dr. Lauri Wessel

European New School of Digital Studies
@: wessel at europa-uni.de
https://europeannewschool.eu/digital-transformation

Faculty of Health Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway
@: lauri.k.wessel at ntnu.no

CHECK OUT OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS:

Wessel, L., Sundermeier, J., Rothe, H., Hanke, S., Baiyere, A., Rappert, F., Gersch, M. (forthcoming). “Designing as Trading-off: A Practice-based View on Smart Service Systems”. European Journal of Infor-mation Systems. [VHB Jourqual Ranking 3.0 “A”] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376681860_Designing_as_trading-off_a_practice-based_view_on_smart_service_systems/related#fullTextFileContent


Davidson, E., Wessel, L., Winter, J. S., & Winter, S. (2023). „Future Directions for Scholar-ship on Data Governance, Digital Innovation, and Grand Challenges. Information and Organization, 33(1): 100454. [Meta-rating BWL “A”; VHB Jourqual Ranking 3.0 “B”], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2023.100454

Wessel, L., Routsalainen, R., Schildt, H., Wickert, C. (2023) “The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure"”. Journal of Business Ethics, 184: 459–478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05125-x [FT50 Journal; VHB Jourqual Ranking 3.0 “B”]

Hanke, S., Wessel, L. (2022) “Advancing the discussion about Clinical Decision Support Systems to tackle Adverse Drug Events: a ‘problematizing’ approach”. European Conference for Information Systems 2022. [VHB Jourqual Ranking 3.0 “B”]*

Wessel, L., Baiyere, A., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., Cha, J., Jensen, T. B. ”Unpacking the Difference between Digital Transformation and IT-enabled Organizational Transformation”. (2021) Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(1):6. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00655 [VHB Jourqual Ranking 3.0 “A”]