Call For Papers: Information Systems Journal - Special Issue on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare 

Data analytics is already making large impacts in finance, manufacturing, retail, and social networks. The healthcare industry, too, is undergoing dramatic transformation in promoting patient centric services and evidence based reasoning in treatment and care delivery. Big data will play an important role in this transformation. Thus, there is growing interest in efficient healthcare data acquisition, processing and analysis across different healthcare organizations. However, current healthcare information systems are still lacking in successful implementation of big data solutions. The heterogeneous and rapidly expanding nature of healthcare data also poses challenges for big data projects. In the face of these challenges, this special issue is intended for IS researchers to disseminate cutting-edge research that provides insights into the challenges, opportunities, novel strategies, and analytic tools and techniques for dealing with big data in healthcare. 

 

Some indicative themes might include: 

- Health services perspectives 

- Data-driven optimal planning and scheduling 

- Using analytics to improve healthcare outcomes (patient safety, medical error reduction etc.) 

- Developing data-driven systems that better support patient-provider interaction 

- Improving healthcare workflow and process efficiency 

- Supporting practice at a distance (telehealth) 

- Public health perspectives 

- Improving government and community health policy making 

- Detecting disease outbreaks & biological threats using analytics 

- Systems for monitoring and managing population health 

- Delivering health information and knowledge to the public 

- Consumer health perspectives 

- Personal health records 

- Self-care systems 

- Social media 

- Internet health 

 

Forms of submission:

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The areas covered by this special issue have been attractive topics at conferences such as the BDAH 2014 Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, Singapore. In the case of papers from the conference, the submission is required to be a substantial revision of the conference publication and the authors will be required to submit a letter detailing the difference between their conference paper and the new version. All submitted papers will go through peer review and if the paper does not receive a satisfactory review, it will not be considered for the special issue. 

 

Submission Instruction:

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Manuscripts must be submitted to the ISF-Springer online submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/. 

 

Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information Systems Frontiers available at: http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796 

 

Submissions should be approximately 32 pages double spaced including references. 

Important Dates:

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Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2014 

Initial review report: 15th February 2015 

Final Revised Manuscript: Due 15th May 2015 

Publication Issue TBA 

Guest Editors:

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Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore (atreyi@comp.nus.edu.sg)

Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore (jungpil@nus.edu.sg )

Sharon Tan, National University of Singapore (tansl@comp.nus.edu.sg)

Gordon Gao, University of Maryland (ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu)

 

Senior Guest Editors:

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Hock-Hai Teo, National University of Singapore 

Danny Poo, National University of Singapore 

The full CFP announcement can be found at: http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP-ISF-SI-BigData.pdf