AMCIS 2007@KEYSTONE -- CONFERENCE TRACK(MINI TRACK)

Integrating the Digital

Healthcare Enterprise

Healthcare

Chair:

Elliot B. Sloane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Villanova University College of Commerce and Finance
Department of Decision and Information Systems
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
Ph: (610) 519-6432
Fax: (610) 519-5015
elliot.sloane@villanova.edu

Gondy Leroy, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Information Systems and Technology
Claremont Graduate University
130 E. Ninth St.
Claremont, CA 91711
Ph: (909) 627-3270
Fax: (909) 621-8564
gondy.leroy@cgu.edu

Steven D. Sheetz, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Global e-Commerce and

Associate Professor

Pamplin College of Business

Department of Accounting and Information Systems

Pamplin Hall 3007 (mailcode 0101)

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ph: (540)231-6096

Fax: (540)-231-2511

sheetz@vt.edu

http://www.sba.uwm.edu/RISH/AMCIS2007-SIGHealthCFP2.htm

Description:

Today, most healthcare enterprises consist of “stovepipe” information architectures, which create pockets of isolated and incomplete clinical and operational information. Classically, such structures not only do not integrate clinical and operational information, but also do not integrate the health care consumer (i.e. patient) as a critical collaborator in the information, diagnosis, and care delivery structure. The result worldwide has been serious waste and errors that reduce the quality of patient’s lives, increase health worker’s stress levels, and rapidly inflate costs. Critical healthcare information infrastructure changes are finally beginning to occur. For example, the HIPAA Law’s core Administrative Simplification Act mandating a uniform, industry-standard, nationwide EDI system for most government healthcare reimbursements is propelling EDI to a de facto industry standard. Simultaneously, there is renewed effort to create standards to integrate previously disparate information systems (e.g., HL7 and IHE) to create integrated patient medical records, and to implement data mining and decision support tools to standardize care and outcomes. Lastly, there is a growing trend to extend the health care team to include patients, caregivers, and other information providers and to shift some decisions to the patients themselves. Technologies are emerging to raise consumer awareness of health risks, sustain well being, facilitate patient education and awareness (particularly in the case of chronic disease management) and connect the patient and/or his/her team of health care providers with other stakeholders (e.g., collaborative groups) to gain access to all relevant information in a reliable, timely manner.

For this minitrack, we invite papers that address all aspects of health information system research that improve the integration of information and clinical services, especially those that affect the care and wellbeing. The track’s key focus is on information systems, structures, and technologies that improve the integration of clinical information for, and the collaboration among, patients, families, physicians, and other appropriate stakeholders.

The mini-track will focus on:

Development, implementation, or diffusion of technologies that support consumer awareness of health risks, preventative efforts, and contributions to electronic patient records.
eHealth, Telehealth, and Telemedicine technologies that support collaborative care and decisions within, and outside the healthcare enterprise.
Patient access and contribution to longitudinal, computerized health records.
Patient and/or caregiver centric design of health technologies.
Design of clinical decision support systems for patients, physicians, or insurance payers that facilitate optimal care and outcomes and to reduce medical errors.
Ontologies, taxonomies, and other information systems standards or governance structures to facilitate efficient and accurate inter- and intra-organizational data and information interchange.
Biosurveillance techniques and technologies that integrate information to facilitate rapid population-wide healthcare problem detection and prompt, effective response.
Robust system, support, and recovery designs to ensure reliable access to tightly integrated healthcare information systems when and where needed.
Regulations and technologies to ensure the privacy and security of patient information as well as the valid authentication of participants.