Robert Mittman
The Institute for the Future
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| Donald J. Berndt Dept. of Information Systems and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620-7800 Tel: (813) 974-6769/5524 dberndt@coba.usf.edu http://www.coba.usf.edu/isds |
Paul Hu Dept. of Information Systems and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620-7800 Tel: (813) 974-5524 paulhu@coba.usf.edu http://www.coba.usf.edu/isds |
| James Studnicki College of Public Health University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. Tampa, FL 33620 |
Chih-Ping Wei Department of Information Management College of Management National San Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC Tel: +886-7-525-2000 Ext. 4729 cwei@sun1.mis.nsysu.edu.tw |
Topics: This minitrack invites research papers on the following topics:
| Paul Hu Dept. of Information Systems and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620-7800 Tel: (813) 974-5524 paulhu@coba.usf.edu http://www.coba.usf.edu/isds |
Joseph K. Tan Faculty of Medicine Division of Health Policy & Management University of British Columbia 5804 Fairview Ave Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 MHA Tel: 604-822-2737 josepht@interchange.ubc.ca |
Description: The key to a successful health care program is providing decision makers and analysts with timely, accurate, accessible information that allows them to make critical health care decisions. Data mining is a process that generates such information by finding meaningful new correlations, patterns, and trends by sifting through large amounts of data stored in repositories and by using pattern recognition, statistical and mathematical techniques applied to that information.
Topics: Papers are requested that provide demonstrations of how data mining is currently being used within the health care system, particularly for early detection (and ideally prevention) of inappropriate patient and provider behavior. Theoretical papers that propose new techniques will also be considered if they give an adequate comparison of their performance to existing methods in use in health. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
| Dr. Peri H. Iz Health Care Financing Administration Office of Strategic Planning Research and Evaluations Group 7500 Security Blvd. Mail Stop C3-19-26 Baltimore, MD 1244-1850, USA Tel.: +1 410 786 6589 Fax: +1 410 786 5515 piz@hcfa.gov izperi@iamdigex.net |
Dr. Jim Warren School of Computer & Info. Sci. University of South Australia Mawson Lakes SA 5095 AUSTRALIA Tel.: +61 8 8302 3446 Fax: +61 8 8302 3381 warren@cs.unisa.edu.au |
| Dr. Lisa Sokol Technical Director MRJ Technology Solutions 10560 Arrowhead Dr. Farifax, VA 22003 Tel: +1 703 277 1325 Fax: +1 703 277 1472 lsokol@mrj.com |
| Mike Chiasson Assistant Professor Faculty of Management, Scurfield Hall 2500 University Drive, NW University of Calgary Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Tel: (403) 220-7331 Fax: (403) 282-0095 chiasson@ucalgary.ca http://mgis.mgmt.ucalgary.ca/hicss01 |
Elizabeth Davidson Department of Decision Sciences College of Business Administration University of Hawai'i 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel:808-956-6657 davidson@cba.hawaii.edu http://mgis.mgmt.ucalgary.ca/hicss01 |
Topics:
| Janlori Goldman, Director Health Privacy Project Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy 2233 Wisconsin Avenue N.W., Ste 525 Washington D.C. 20007 Tel: 202-687-0880 Fax: 202-687-3110 goldmajl@gunet.georgetown.edu |
William G. Chismar Department of Decision Sciences University of Hawai'i 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 969822 Tel: 808-956-7276 Fax: 808-956-9889 chismar@cba.hawaii.edu |
The environment of the professional health care 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. The size of most health care organizations in the world is growing by mergers and natural growth. This means that these professional 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. There is also a need to open up the healthcare organizations and E-health can help doing that. Information systems can contribute in these changes for the good and the bad. The key to picking the right information systems is still to be found.
Topics: Contributions for this mini-track will be considered for publication in the book Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems to be published by IDEA publishing in 2001.
Research contributions for this minitrack could address, but are not limited to:
| Ton A.M. Spil Faculty of Technology & Management University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands a.a.m.spil@sms.utwente.nl |
Robert A. Stegwee Faculty of Technology & Management University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands r.a.stegwee@sms.utwente.nl |