A workshop organized by AIS SIGHealth.
*deadline has been extended until October 13th*
Date and Time: Dec. 15, Sunday, 2024, before International Conference on information Systems, https://icis2024.aisconferences.org/
Location: Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park, Bangkok, Thailand
Theme: Aging and Health Information Technology
HITS (formerly the SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop) is a pre-conference activity of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) hosted by the Special Interest Group Health IT (SIGHEALTH). It provides a forum for those working on information technology in the context of healthcare. We welcome both research-in-progress and completed work on a broad range of topics and methodologies. Authors do not have to be SIG-Health members to participate. Please note that the papers do not have to fit the theme, just relate to health IT in general.
The papers will not be included in conference proceedings and so authors retain all copyrights to their work. However, accepted papers will be listed with author names, affiliations, title, and brief abstract on the AIS SIG-Health website.
The workshop is restricted to 40 participants and will include presentations and roundtable discussions. All submitted work will be reviewed by the co-chairs and other workshop authors. All accepted papers will then be presented and discussed during roundtable discussions to provide authors with help, feedback, suggestions, and to facilitate future collaborations. We will have 3-5 authors per table to facilitate discussion. There will be a featured presentation and a recognition of the 2024 Best Paper Award awardees to all participants. The interactive format of the workshop is geared towards providing a high degree of feedback to authors with promising early-stage work, but is certainly open to developed and completed research as well.
Keynote #1 Title: Patient Safety and Health IT for an Aging Population: Some Challenges and Research Opportunities
Speaker: Prof. Rema Padman, Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract: The US Institute of Medicine’s landmark report in 1999, titled “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System”, asserted that “the problem is not bad people in healthcare–it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer”. It dramatically raised awareness of patient safety issues in healthcare delivery to patients, researchers, practitioners and policy makers worldwide. Medical errors, such as surgical, medication, and diagnostic errors, cause serious harm to patients in every healthcare delivery setting, with aging populations being at particularly high risk for well-documented reasons such as multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Health IT and data analytics have been consistently recommended by successive studies to help detect and mitigate preventable errors and improve the safety of patients and the systems that provide care. However, 25 years later, the World Health Organization’s Global Patient Safety Report 2024 indicates that almost one in ten patients is harmed in healthcare, resulting in three million deaths or more worldwide each year, with more than half of them being preventable. Using medication management as an illustrative example, this talk will highlight some of the major challenges in making healthcare systems safer for an aging population and current research directions that combine healthcare informatics, analytics and operations in meeting these challenges.
Bio: Rema Padman is Trustees Professor of Management Science and Healthcare Informatics in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Veterans Affairs, and several foundations, investigates predictive and prescriptive analytics, informatics and operations for data-driven decision support in the context of clinical and consumer-facing IT interventions in healthcare delivery and management. More recently, she has also been focusing on AI-ML-OR approaches for investigating patient safety issues and for addressing health literacy challenges. She has published extensively, serves on editorial boards of major academic journals, and advises healthcare informatics and analytics projects for provider, payer, pharmaceutical, consulting, and nonprofit organizations. She is an elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Keynote #2 Title: We care technology for support of emergency medical service for the elderly community dwellers
Speaker: Prof. Siranee Sihapark, Department of Community Nursing, Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Praboromarachanok Institute, Thailand.
Workshop Registration Fees
In-Person Attendance with ICIS registration
AIS Academic Member = $20
AIS Professional Member = $25
AIS Student = $10
In-Person Attendance – Workshop Only
AIS Academic Member = $20
AIS Professional Member = $25 AIS Student = $10
Submission Instructions
We will request brief abstracts and short papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers must be in English and need to contain original research. Only one paper per first author will be accepted.
To Submit a Paper
The submission Web page for HITS 2024 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hits2024
Create a single pdf file containing a brief abstract (150 words maximum) and paper that is no longer than six pages (blinded, 11-pt Times New Roman font, one-inch margins on four sides, double-spaced).
Please note the brief abstract and short paper format of this workshop. Manuscripts which fail to comply with the formatting requirements will likely be rejected. Do not send full-length papers. This workshop is designed to give authors of papers at many stages of development timely feedback. Therefore, authors need to adhere to the format guidelines to facilitate a timely review process.
Please note: By submitting, the author team agrees to perform two reviews of other papers submitted to the workshop. This is done to ensure each manuscript gets two reviews.
Important dates
-Deadline for workshop submissions: Sunday, October 13, 2024
-Deadline for reviews: Sunday, October 20, 2024
-Notification of Acceptance: Monday, October 28, 2024 (target date)
-Deadline for Author Registration: Friday, November 22, 2024
-Workshop: Sunday, December 15, 2024
2024 HITS Workshop Co-Chairs
Renée Pratt, Ph.D.
2024 SIG Health Workshop Co-Chair
renee.pratt@rprattphd.com
Haijing Hao, Ph.D.
2024 SIG Health Workshop Co-Chair
hhao@bentley.edu