May 26, 09.00 – 17.00 (Fürstenberghaus, Room  F153)

Format of the workshop

• Date: May 26, 2015 (full day)
• Presentation of position papers, research in progress, and completed research.
• Panel discussion with international Health Information Technology experts.
• Practical exercises.
• Presentation and discussion on how to publish in the Health Information Technology area in both health and mainstream journals.
• The workshop will give participants an opportunity to discuss published work and work in progress. Challenges in doing research in this area will be analyzed including the ethical hurdles in finding participants in the health sphere and getting access to sensitive study environments. Through the panel and discussion of the presented papers the workshop will examine the major themes for future research in this area.
• Extended versions of the best contributions will be considered for a fast track, special edition of Health Policy & Technology (www.healthpolicyandtechnology.org)

Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 05, 2015
Acceptance notification: April 24, 2015
Final version due: May 17, 2015

Motivation and Description

Wide-spread introduction of information systems is inducing a paradigmatic change in the health care environment. In the past, health care was a rather traditional domain, where technological innovation was focused on new treatments and treatment-support technologies. Besides bringing considerable benefits, new developments in information systems in health care have created new ways of doing things.  Beyond the automation of previous manual systems these new systems create a variety of cross-disciplinary issues and challenges calling for research. New technologies challenge traditional methods in medicine, lead to a significant shift in the doctor/patient relationship and provide new tools for self-management and the provision of new sources of data.

This workshop invites papers that deepen our understanding on how to design and integrate information technologies in health care to foster use, improve health outcomes, and empower patients. It has become important to examine state-of-health and quality-of-life from an information systems perspective in order to deal with numerous issues arising from the clash of human and machine. Instead of focusing on the outcomes of mere IT application, workshop contributions should concentrate on the artifact itself, its fit with patients’ preferences and needs as well as its integration into the social and technical environment. This field presents unique challenges since the adoption of IT for patient-centered health involves complex adaptations on the part of users and providers. Also of interest is how personal health monitoring and the proliferation of on-line health information interact with traditional medical services.

We invite theoretical and empirical submissions (position papers, research-in-progress and completed research) that leverage the multiple facets of patient-centered information systems and address the challenges of information system implementation in this interdisciplinary field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Interoperability of patient-centered Health Information Technology
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology and patient empowerment
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology in potential conflict with clinical practice
• Preventive patient-centered Health Information Technology
• Development of patient-centered Health Information Technology
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology in the Cloud
• Safety, information security and privacy of patient-centered Health Information Technology
• Economics of patient-centered Health Information Technology
• Patient-centered applications for mental health
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology and quality-of-care
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology and state-of-health
• Patient-centered Health Information Technology and a fitting degree of personalization

Submission Guidelines

Target audience: The workshop is designed as an interdisciplinary workshop at the intersection of Information Systems, Computer Science, Health Care, and Medicine. Therefore, the target audience are researchers from related disciplines with interest in Health Information Technology.

Formatting guidelines: Submission can be up to 8 pages long including abstract and references. Please follow the ECIS formatting guidelines: http://www.ecis2015.eu/participation/submissions

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted by email. Please email your submissions to:

HIT-ECIS2015@uni-koeln.de

Workshop organizers

Tobias Dehling; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

eMail:   dehling@wiso.uni-koeln.de
www:   http://www.isq.uni-koeln.de/dehling.html

Tobias Dehling is a research assistant at the Department of Information Systems and Systems Development, University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on provision and design of health information technology, patient-orientation as well as information privacy. Tobias (co)-authored international journal articles (e.g., Electronic Markets, JMIR mHealth uHealth, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) and presented his work at major IS conferences (e.g., International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)).

Stefan Schellhammer; ERCIS, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

eMail:   wistsc@wi.uni-muenster.de
www:   http://www.wi1.uni-muenster.de/wi/organisation/stefan-schellhammer.html

Dr. Stefan Schellhammer is a faculty member of Department of Information Systems at the University of Münster, Germany. His present research interests include studying the emergence of information infrastructures in health care and IT-related stress. Over the past years Stefan has been involved in several research projects in the healthcare sector, that include a wide range of different professionals and organizations in healthcare. His work appeared in the major IS conferences, the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, and book chapters.

Ofir Ben-Assuli; Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel

eMail:   ofir@ono.ac.il
www:   http://www.ono.ac.il/ofir

Dr. Ofir Ben Assuli is a faculty member in the School of Business Administration at Ono Academic College, Israel. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems at Tel Aviv University in 2011. His main academic research interests are in the area of Healthcare Information Technology, Financial Decision-Making, Social Network and Medical Informatics. Dr. Ben-Assuli has more than eight years of practical consulting experience in the IT arena, including healthcare organizations and High-Tech. His publications have appeared in Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Journal of Medical Systems, among others.

Reeva Lederman; University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

eMail:   reeva.lederman@unimelb.edu.au
www:   http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=5168

Dr. Reeva Lederman is a faculty member in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Her research interests include the development of information systems for mental health and chronic disease, computerized error management in health and on-line health communities. She is the recipient of over 2 million dollars in recent government funding to develop on- line applications for people with psychotic illnesses. She has published in high level outlets such as the European Journal of Information Systems and ToCHI and was the 2012 recipient of the Stafford Beer Medal in IS research.

Ali Sunyaev; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

eMail:   sunyaev@wiso.uni-koeln.de
www:   http://www.isq.uni-koeln.de/sunyaev.html

Ali Sunyaev is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Cologne, Germany. Ali has published several international journal articles (including articles in journals such as Communications of the ACM (CACM), ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ), IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems (AIS TES), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Electronic Markets (EM), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), and Communications of the AIS (CAIS)). His research interests include design, management and quality of information systems, development of innovative healthcare applications, and management of information systems security.

Names of the program committee (as of November, 2014)

Christoph Peters, University of Kassel, Germany
Itamar Shabtai, College of Management - Academic Studies, Israel
Kathleen Gray, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sivan Rapaport, Columbia University, USA
Sven Abels, Ascora GmbH, Germany
Thomas Lux, University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Germany
Ton Spil, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tsipi Heart, Ono Academic College, Israel