Track: Information Technology in Health Care
Minitrack: IT Adoption and Evaluation in Healthcare

This minitrack focuses on the role of adoption, implementation, diffusion, and evaluation factors and the interaction of these factors at various levels to healthcare system success.  Papers may explore these issues for any form of healthcare technology (telemedicine, PACS, electronic medical records, PDA's).

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
Application of adoption, implementation, and diffusion theories, models, and constructs to the health care context
*Unified Technology Adoption & Use Theory (UTAUT) and Technology acceptance model
* Socio-technical system theory
* Social learning theory
* Information Systems Success models
* Theory of Planned Behavior
* Organizing Vision and organizational adoption models

IT Adoption at the individual, project, organizational, or system level
* Stakeholder analysis
* User characteristics
* Organizational or project structure and/or strategies
* Regional Healthcare Initiatives
* Interaction among individual, organizational, project, and/or system level
* Role/impact of regulatory structures

IT Implementation
* Effective implementation strategies
* Electronic Medical Records
* Health IT project management
* Participation of professionals in e-health projects
* The influence of the local system

IT Use
* Factors and models of continued use
* Human Computer Interaction
* Models to measure or predict Use of IT (USE IT)
* Emergence of standards and process controls
* E-Health

IT Evaluation
* Evidence-based support of emerging healthcare technologies
* Measures for evaluating healthcare technologies
* Level of IT capabilities
* Health IS success factors
* Feasibility Analysis
* Allied Health Professions

Co-chairs:
Ton Spil (Primary Contact)
Business Information Systems Department
Faculty of Business, Policy and Technology
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217 , 7500 AE Enschede , The Netherlands
Email: a.a.m.spil@utwente.nl

Ken Trimmer
Computer Information Systems
College of Business
Idaho State University
Campus Box 8020 , Pocatello, ID 83209 , USA
Phone: +1-208-282-3788
Fax: +1-208-282-4367
Email: trimkenn@isu.edu

Cynthia LeRouge
Decision Sciences/ MIS Department
St. Louis University
3674 Lindell Avenue, DS 467, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
Phone: +1-314-977-3852
Fax: +1-314-977-1483
Email: lerougec@slu.edu

Carla Wiggins
Department of Healthcare Administration
Kasiska College of Health Professions
Idaho State University
Campus Box 8002Pocatello, ID 83209-8002 , USA
Phone: +1-208-282-3586
Fax: +1-208-282-4645
Email: wiggcarl@isu.edu