Information Technology in Health Care Track
Track Chair
William Chismar
Department of Decision Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2404 Maile Way, E-303
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7276
Fax: (808) 956-9889
chismar@cba.hawaii.edu
Data Management in Health Care
The nature of health care is information intensive and the resulting patient care is greatly dependent on information support and management. Rapid technology advancements and continual increase in performance/price indexes have made information technology (IT) applicable at all levels in health care organizations and patient management. As a result, information management is becoming a growing concern for many health care organizations and their stakeholders. Vast amounts of data in multimedia formats can be and have been captured and archived at various levels. Conceivably, effective management and analysis of this rich collection of data can improve patient care and management, enhance organization performance, and facilitate policy formulation.
For this minitrack, we invite papers that address all aspects of database systems and data warehousing technology as contributors to information infrastructures in health care. This includes analysis, design and development of database applications, information exchange systems, data mining techniques, and decision support systems.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Analysis, Design, and Development of Database Systems for Healthcare Applications
- Data Warehousing for Healthcare Information
- Distributed Healthcare Information Infrastructures
- Data Standards for Healthcare Applications
- Data Mining techniques and Applications
- Data Modeling for Healthcare Applications
- Decision Support Systems
Minitrack Chairs
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
(813) 974-6769/5524
dberndt@coba.usf.edu
http://www.coba.usf.edu/isds |
E-Health Strategies
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 do that. Information systems can contribute to these changes for the good and the bad. The key to picking the right information systems is still to be found.
Research contributions for this minitrack could address, but are not limited to:
- Strategic Information Systems Planning in healthcare organizations or related professional organizations
- Healthcare Management Information Systems
- Healthcare network organizations
- Knowledge management in healthcare
- Standardization 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.
Minitrack Chairs
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 |
Healthcare Chain Workflow Management by Use of ITC
Core topics in the field of workflow management in the HC sector include, but are not limited to:
- selection of aspects for inter-organisational workflow management
- workflow management: choosing the levels to work on
- workflow management: standards-based or problem-based?
- restructuring the workflow by use of IT
- managing professionals in relation to workflow-management
- assessment of the management of the workflow
Minitrack Chairs
Integrating Information Systems Theory and Health Informatics Research
This mini-track will focus on research investigating the development and testing of IS theory within the health care setting. Submissions should make explicit links to theories from other areas of IS research. Focus on research investigating the development and testing of IS theory within the health-care setting. Articles could include on-going research, completed research as well as conceptual papers on the role of health-care related IT research in the development of IS theory. Our goal is to draw health care IS research closer to the general body of IS research and demonstrate its value in testing and developing IS theory
Topics include but are not limited to:
- The role of IS research in health care on IS theoretical development
- The health care environment as a unique setting for IS theory building or testing
- The influence of the "loose" organizational structures (such as those found in health care settings) on system development practices
- The influence of diverse professional groups on user requirements analysis
- The effect of private, public and mixed funding structures on the diffusion of technology
- Characteristics of adaptive structuration concepts in health care environments
- The diffusion of specialized IT in health care -- cat scans, MRI, lab testing
- DSS and Executive Support Systems concepts in health -- who is the decision-maker, and who is the Executive?
- E-commerce and health care -- what does it mean in a public sector organization in the competition of cyber-space?
- The diffusion of administrative IT into clinical practice
- The diffusion and effect of expert systems in various health care domains
- Public versus acute care health
- The integrated patient care record system -- challenges in diffusion
- The role of social services in health care/promotion
- The diffusion and infusion of IT with particular disease/health areas
- Cross-cultural comparisons of heath care studies that illustrate theoretical issues
Minitrack Chairs
Elizabeth Davidson, Assistant Professor
Department of Decision Sciences
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-6657
Fax: (808) 956-9889
davidson@cba.hawaii.edu
| 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
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Nancy Pouloudi, Lecturer
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex, Ub8 3PH
United Kingdom
Bus: 44-1895-274000 ext 3745
csstnnp@brunel.ac.uk
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Knowledge Management for Health Care Systems Support
Papers are requested that address how knowledge management is currently being used within the health care system, particularly for information acquisition, information generation, information organization, application of information to decision support systems, and finally information sharing and collaboration. 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 care. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Organization
- Knowledge Sharing
- Knowledge Application
- Knowledge Generation including Data Mining, and AI
Minitrack Chairs
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 |
Privacy and Security for Health Information Systems
This minitrack on privacy and health care will focus on two topics: new federal health regulations governing privacy, security and information systems that will soon be in effect; and the privacy and security issues posed by e-health, both through health web sites, and point-to-point transactions. Paper submissions are sought that explore new rules and "best principles," and that lay out the opportunities to better protect privacy through IT. The papers may also address an array of policies and practices, including anonymizing data and ensuring security.
We papers from a wide spectrum of disciplines concerned with privacy and security in health information systems. Relevant research areas include, but are not limited to, the following:
Topics
- Privacy on health-related web-sites and other Internet related initiatives
- Technological solutions to ensuring privacy and security of health data
- Privacy of health data used in research
- Legal and policy issues of regulating privacy of health data
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Minitrack Chairs
Fay Cobb Payton
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
North Carolina State University
College of Management
Department of Business Management
Box 7229
Raleigh NC 27695
Tel: (919) 513-2744
Fax: (919) 515-6943
fay_payton@ncsu.edu |
William G. Chismar
Department of Decision Sciences
University of Hawai'i
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: 808-956-7276
Fax: 808-956-9889
chismar@cba.hawaii.edu |
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is about the use of information and biomedicine technologies to support, facilitate, or improve health care services and education/training among geographically distributed parties, including physicians, specialists, nursing staff and patients.
This minitrack invites research papers on the assessment, application and evaluation of the state-of-the-art in telemedicine technologies. It also looks for research work dealing with policy and legal issues (e.g., communications standards and legal liabilities) and real-world case studies of telemedicine implementation and use.
Minitrack Chairs