AMCIS Website: http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/

IS in Healthcare Tract info at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/tracks-and-minitracks/59

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IS in Health Care (SIGHealth) Track

Information systems (IS) offer significant potential to improve quality and efficiency of care delivery, enable new forms of healthcare organizations, and transform patients’ behavior. However, to fully exploit the power of healthcare IS, significant challenges must be overcome. Consistent with the 2012 conference theme, “reflect and redefine, designing the digital future,” the focus of this track is on the design, implementation, adoption, and use of healthcare IS, as well as quantifying the impact of IS on clinical and financial performance at the patient, physician, hospital/healthcare facility, and national levels. Digitizing healthcare represents a rare and remarkable opportunity for information systems researchers, and we welcome IS studies from a variety of reference disciplines including computer science, economics, organizational behavior, public policy, software engineering, and strategy.

Mini tracks/ suggested topics:

  • Health IS design
  • Barriers to health IS adoption
  • Health IS technology selection and vendor competition
  • Implementation and adaptation processes of health IS
  • Enablers for meaningful use of health IS
  • Health IS’s role in supporting rapid learning and decision making
  • Health IS’s impact on workflow, clinical outcome, and financial performance
  • Patient privacy and data security
  • Health data standard and exchange
  • Online health information
  • Health programs and behavioral changes
  • Quality certification, transparency, and competition among care providers
  • Online market mechanism design for insurance procurement and management
  • Healthcare supply chain management
  • The role of policy and regulation
  • New organizational forms enabled by health IS
  • Global health IS
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