Deadline

All manuscripts should be submitted by no later than June 30, 2013. All papers should be submitted to the submission system at ees.elsevier.com/ecra, via the ‘SI: eHealth’ option at the ‘Article Type’ step in the submission process. For more details visit ECRA website at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com.

Link to CFP: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications/call-for-papers/ehealth-and-healthcare-service-transformation/.

Background

With the pervasive nature of Internet-based technologies, healthcare services are undergoing significant transformation wherein both providers and consumers have access to information for making informed decisions yielding the best possible outcomes. On the one hand, providers are adopting or upgrading to state-of-the-art IT, aiming to improve organizational efficiency, access to care, and quality of care delivered, which lead to improved well-being for patients as consumers. For example, community-based behavioral healthcare providers have been adopting web-based innovations to enhance patient engagement and to help people with substance abuse and behavioral issues. These people otherwise may not have access to healthcare services or are reluctant to seek help in traditional channels for care. At the same time, the ongoing liberation of healthcare data to bring it into the public domain has energized technology vendors, healthcare systems, start-ups, and researchers to develop new applications, tools and products that can harness big health data to improve provider-level clinical decision-making. On the other hand, advances in technological solutions, such as mobile apps, are expected to empower consumers to interact with their care providers more effectively, engage in shared medical decision-making with providers, and access relevant information to manage their health better. Finally, innovative applications of information technology will have substantial impacts on improved management of the health of large populations of people and key social groups who are at risk, and also for improving public agencies’ capabilities for responding effectively to emergency situations.

Purpose

This special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), expected in early 2014, seeks to publish leading-edge research that investigates how technological and methodological advances are reshaping and transforming the healthcare sector. It will examine how recent and emerging technological and marketplace developments support innovative business and organizational models to meet the challenges of improved healthcare delivery.

Guest Editors

This call for papers will yield one special issue that will be developed and co-edited by:

  • Ajit Appari, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA, ajit.appari@dartmouth.edu
  • Xia Zhao, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, x_zhao3@uncg.edu
  • The sponsoring editor for this special issue is Robert J. Kauffman, ECRA’s Editor-in-Chief.

Topics

The special issue seeks analytical, empirical, experimental, and case study-based research that contributes to theory building, and should have practical implications. Relevant topics include:

  • Challenges & opportunities in health information exchanges for healthcare services provision and population health
  • Data-driven methods to improve healthcare service operations and patient treatment
  • Economics of information security and privacy in healthcare services
  • Electronic communities and online social networks for providers, patients and consumers
  • Impacts of public and private infrastructure, and health info exchanges on the healthcare market
  • IT-enabled mechanisms that improve the healthcare delivery process
  • Market-based competition for online healthcare services
  • Modeling coordination issues among healthcare stakeholders in the e-health record environment
  • Roles of emerging technologies and infrastructure, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and wearable devices
  • Roles of IS in engaging patients in effective medical decision-making processes
  • Roles of IS in improving healthcare service quality and reducing clinical errors
  • Roles of IS in improving intraorganizational and interorganizational clinical supply chains

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Xia Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
Phone: (336) 256-8588
Email: x_zhao3@uncg.edu

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