Clinical Support Systems

Papers are requested that provide solutions (preferably with demonstrations of success in clinical practice) to the management of large amounts of information in clinical computing environments, particular with respect to doctor's (or other health professionals) at the point of patient care.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Interfaces to the electronic medical record
• Methods of displaying, filtering and contextualizing practice guidelines
• Networks and electronic records that support integration of diverse sources of clinical information
• Multimodal clinical workstations (e.g., integrating textual records, teleconferencing, and image retrieval)
• Problem-oriented search methods in vast clinical repositories (notably, the Web itself)
• Evidence Based Medicine repositories
• Drug interaction, alert and reminder systems with emphasis on the user interface
• Longitudinal views of medical histories and observations
• Clinical workstation usability

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Databases, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining in Health Care

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Telemedicine

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Virtual Reality and Tele-immersion in Healthcare

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Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems

Internal innovations such as computer-based patient records, hospital information systems, decision support tools are beginning to affect the cost, quality, and accessibility of healthcare. Advanced information technology in healthcare, beyond basic HIS functionality, is often found in isolated "islands of information". Despite the incorporation of sophisticated technology in almost every other aspect of clinical practice, information technologies have not yet been fully embraced (US Congress, 1995).

The environment of the professional healthcare organizations handled in this minitrack is changing. Where it should be complex and stable, according to reference models, the environment is becoming more and more unstable. Healthcare organizations have to use strategic variables that they have never used before with a new technical system. There is need for structural changes to strengthen middle management but even more need for cultural changes to balance the autonomous and heteronomous powers in the organization. Strategic information systems can contribute in these changes for the good and the bad.

Topics of interest:

• Strategic Information Systems Planning in healthcare organizations or related professional organizations
• Healthcare Management Information Systems
• Data warehouses in healthcare.
• Critical success factors in healthcare organizations
• Portfolio analysis of healthcare systems.
• Strategic alignment in healthcare
• Functional integration of healthcare systems
• Effectiveness of IS in healthcare organizations
• Strategic role of IS in healthcare organizations.
• Electronic business in healthcare organizations

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Health Information Privacy and Policies

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