HICSS 49 CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

49th annual
Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences

January 5 - 8, 2016   Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii, USATo see all tracks and minitracks: http://www.hicss.org/

Track: Information Technology in Healthcare

Minitrack: Evidence-Based Mobile and Web Health Design and Analysis

Author instructions: www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp

HICSS is an invigorating conference that brings together bright people with novel ideas and solutions. If your paper is accepted for presentation at HICSS, you or a co-author will present it in a HICSS session, and it will be published in the IEEE digital library.

The focus of this minitrack is to address the challenges of the rapidly evolving fields of web- and mobile-based health (mHealth).  Technological interventions to enhance wellness are evolving quickly. Consumers and practitioners alike are incorporating mobile devices and websites into their daily routines in new ways. 

The potential impact of mHealth and web interventions is enormous. Consider this: An individual might spend 10-15 minutes or less per year with a primary-care physician, whereas the same person might have nearly constant contact with a mobile device, and Web contact several times a day.

Although thousands of apps claim to offer a path to improved health, few have any scientific data demonstrating that the claims are true. This not only leaves healthcare professionals and consumers vulnerable to unproven methods, but it crowds out potentially useful novel approaches.

This minitrack addresses these challenges by soliciting completed research papers covering a wide range of novel methodological, conceptual, and design research studies that: (1) evaluate the design, development, and implementation of web and mobile health applications and interventions; (2) assess the impact of such applications; (3) create an evidence base; and (4) develop models  for these systems.

This minitrack incorporates the following issues:

· Evaluation of web-based and mHealth applications

· Methodologies for evidence-based design, development, and deployment

· Novel approaches to conducting field studies and pilot studies of web-based and mHealth applications

· Alternatives to standard randomized clinical trials in determining the efficacy and effectiveness of these interventions

· Defining meaningful outcomes in evidence-based mHealth and web-based interventions

· Applying clinical care guidelines

· Gathering and using data, particularly intensive longitudinal data, to study these interventions

· Broadening the evidence base

· Expanding technology utilization to enhance impact and effectiveness

· Determining impact at various stages of design and innovation processes

· Examining evidence across a wide range of health contexts including—

    --Personal health and self-management

    --Disability management

    --Patient care monitoring

    --Chronic care management

    --Behavior change

    --Home health care

    --Patient-provider communications

    --Medical knowledge management

    --Patient safety

    --Information retrieval

    --Decision making

    --Practice management

    --Preventive care

    --Public health applications

    --Mobile electronic medical records

2015 Deadlines:

Before June 15: Optional abstracts may be submitted to minitrack chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and receiving instructions on submitting a full paper. 

On or before June 15: Full papers should be uploaded in the directory of the appropriate minitrack, through www.hicss.org/#!author-instructions/c1dsb.  IF YOU EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTY WITH THE ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM, PLEASE CONTACT HICSS STAFF OR A MINITRACK CHAIR.

August 15 (approx.): Notification of accepted papers.

September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, should be uploaded; author(s) register.

Mini-Track Chairs and Advisers:

Janet Brigham, Ph.D. (primary contact)
 jzbrands(at)earthlink.net

Benjamin Schooley, MBA, Ph.D.
schooley.ben(at)gmail.com

Rochelle Rosen, Ph.D.

Rochelle_Rosen(at)Brown.edu

Beth Bock, Ph.D.Beth Bock(at)Brown.edu