-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Consumer Health Informatics Edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani and Joseph Tan Datum: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:34:44 +0000 Von: Indrit Troshani indrit.troshani@adelaide.edu.au An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*Call for ChapterS*

*Consumer Health Informatics*

*Edited by*

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani and Joseph Tan

To be published by Springer (www.springer.com http://www.springer.com)

*Introduction and Background*

Over the last decade, the traditional doctor-patient relationship is shifting to a more consultative scenario as consumers (as well as their family members) play an increasingly active role in understanding, managing and making decisions about their own health conditions. Further, as many areas across the globe continue to face serious shortages of medical professionals, there is an inevitable shift towards helping those needing care to somehow rely on self-help resources and mechanisms. Information and communications technology (ICT) sits at the center of these shifts with its rapid growth in automated intelligence and shared cognitive support mechanisms. Increasingly consumers rely on IT-enabled applications to access health information, resources and self-help tools. Today, this phenomenon has generally been termed Consumer Health Informatics (CHI).

CHI has become a key branch of medical informatics. The CHI field incorporates key concepts and constructs from various disciplines including, but not limited to, nursing informatics, public health informatics, information systems, psychology, health promotion, health education, library science, healthcare computing and engineering as well as communication science. Critical to consumer health informatics is a patient-centric focus. CHI uses technology to support and analyze health consumers' needs for information, aid users in shared decision-making on health-related issues, and provide information resources to support self-care. CHI systems run a wide gamut from personal health records, health related web sites, smart phone and mobile apps, remote health monitoring devices, social networking for health-care and smart home health systems. Research in this growing area strives to study, recommend, and implement methods for making information conveniently accessible to consumers. Research and practice also seek to model and integrate consumers' preferences in the design and development of health technologies, which may be either independent or interconnected to clinical systems.

The introduction of ICT into healthcare delivery, and more especially e-health solutions, are representative of disruptive technologies that are challenging key traditional relationships within health care, specifically, provider-patient, provider-provider, payer-patient, provider-healthcare organization, and patient-policy maker. Consumer health informatics takes a socio-technical perspective and delves deep into the underlying complex inter-factorial relationships to help us fully understand the impacts of the tools, techniques, technologies and tactics of today's information age on healthcare delivery. Without an in-depth understanding of all the implications of ICTs on the web of healthcare players, it is not possible for healthcare delivery to address the current challenges of escalating costs, changing population demographics and impacts of key epidemics and chronic diseases appropriately and still provide a healthcare value proposition of excellence. Such an understanding must also recognize that healthcare delivery, to a great extent, is a function of local culture, norms and practices, which presents both a challenge and opportunity for CHI to facilitate the realization of value-driven healthcare delivery for all healthcare systems. To this end, there is a need to know - and, more specifically, a need for a point of entry resource required for those engaged in health information systems research and practice to develop, at minimum, a foundational understanding of CHI.

Not surprisingly, contemporaneous with the growth of consumer health informatics in practice and research, we are also witnessing a growth in related courses and degrees, which are beginning to be offered in this domain, some of which are funded by national health informatics efforts. These courses vary in breadth and depth of coverage but one unifying challenge at present is the lack of a comprehensive learning resource that attempts to capture all the key aspects, challenges, barriers and facilitators to cumulate a fuller and appropriate understanding of this unique field.

We believe not only is such a book timely, but it is and will be a key resource for both the practitioners, students, academics, consultants as well as the general public given that they are all stakeholders in this new and evolving area of CHI. Thus, we have embarked upon a journey to prepare an edited book addressing the new and evolving domain of consumer health informatics. We invite you to submit a chapter proposal.

*Recommended Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: *

ØConsumer health informatics: definition and scope

ØRelevant theoretical perspectives that should be used to understand the underlying and deeper issues

ØThe landscape -- overview of challenges, opportunities, threats, barriers and facilitators

ØRemote monitoring, mobile apps

ØSocial Media and Web 2.0

ØPersonal Health Records

ØArchitecture and Infrastructure requirements (eg SOA and network-centric and interoperability)

ØDesigning for the consumer (literacy, health beliefs, access, diversity)

ØDesign Methods

ØConnecting with Medical Systems and Healthcare Providers

ØPolicy , Public Health, and Economics

ØQuality control, security and privacy

ØInternational and cross country perspectives

ØCase studies and empirical studies that examine the impact of CHI

*Submission details***

In order to meet the publication trajectory we must adhere to strict deadlines as follows:

Chapter proposals are due 10^th April 2014 by email to nilmini.work@gmail.com mailto:nilmini.work@gmail.com

Feedback from Chapter proposals will be provided by 10^th May 2014

Final chapters due 10th Dec 2014 via email to nilmini.work@gmail.com mailto:nilmini.work@gmail.comin word format 12 pt Times new Roman and about 20-25 pages.

For formatting details please visit: www.springer.com http://www.springer.com

Final acceptance will be given 10^th Feb 2015

Revised final chapters due 10^th April 2015

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Springer Publishing Company, www.springerpub.com http://www.springerpub.com, as part of the series "Health Care Delivery in the Information Age".

We look forward to receiving your proposal,

The co-editors

Nilmini, Indrit and Joseph.

Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Hon DL, PhD, MBA

Epworth Chair Health Information Management

School of Business IT and Logistics

RMIT University

GPO Box 2476

Melbourne VIC 3001

AUSTRALIA

phone: +61 3 9925 5783 (direct)

email: nilmini.work@gmail.com

Indrit Troshani, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

The University of Adelaide Business School

10 Pulteney Street Adelaide

AUSTRALIA 5005

Professor Joseph Tan, PhD

Wayne C Fox Chair

1280 Main St. W

Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4

CANADA

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Indrit Troshani

Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

Program Coordinator-Honours/Master of Business Research

The University of Adelaide Business School

10 Pulteney Street Adelaide

AUSTRALIA 5005

Phone : +61 8 8313 5526

Fax : +61 8 8223 4782

E-mail: indrit.troshani@adelaide.edu.au

Web : http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/indrit.troshani

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