Health happens everywhere, though healthcare has traditionally been contained to predefined environments. Whether at home, work, school, or traveling abroad, healthcare is in demand outside the walls of these traditional healthcare facilities. A wide range of organizations (e.g., pharmacies, retailers, tech firms, large employers) are filling gaps in the marketplace that current care delivery providers are not meeting. Such examples are functional medicine enterprises, at-home diagnostic kits, convenient on-premise-on-demand primary care, and synchronous or asynchronous virtual visits. Rapidly changing delivery models are shaping the new healthcare landscape.
A key focus of this minitrack is on the ever-changing nature of business, financial and care delivery models and the role of information systems and technology (IS&T) as enablers.
Potential topics include:
- Ubiquitous Healthcare Innovations:
- Innovations supporting “in place†healthcare (eg. aging in place, rehabbing in place, etc.)
- Demonstrations of information technology and/or information systems to further ubiquitous healthcare across populations and regions
- Social networking approaches to achieving ubiquitous healthcare
- Users, Stakeholders, and Policy:
- Use cases for special populations (eg. Persons with disabilities, incarcerated people, youth, fitness, etc.)
- Integration of ubiquitous healthcare in graduate medical or other clinical education environments
- Challenges to the business model of traditional healthcare
- Infrastructure Requirements and Developments for Ubiquitous Healthcare:
- Interoperability requirements and frameworks
- Approaches and methods for achieving next generation delivery models
- Infrastructure needs or advances to improve current state healthcare delivery
This minitrack seeks to highlight novel research on emergent digital health IS&T, including their design, field testing, evaluation, and broader impacts. We invite submissions that present innovative models, frameworks, and technologies that delve into how IS&T supports health to happen everywhere. Studies are encouraged that report on a range of technology artifacts including mobile devices, wearables and other IOT devices, sensors, telehealth applications, tele-monitoring, mHealth apps, EHR extension apps for non-traditional healthcare environments, and integrations with these technologies and EHRs – that address how designs, implementations, methodologies, and theories are affecting healthcare delivery models and challenging current models to improve access, patient engagement, costs, and population health.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Benjamin Schooley (Primary Contact)
University of South Carolina
bschooley@cec.sc.edu
Sue Feldman
University of Alabama at Birmingham
sfeldman@uab.edu
Nick Patel
Prisma-University of South Carolina Medical Group
Nitin.Patel@uscmed.sc.edu
Saif Khairat
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saif@unc.edu