---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Special Issue Health Informatics - Journal of Management in Medicine Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:34:52 +0100 From: Dr Zahir Irani Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Journal of Management in Medicine (JMM)

Special Issue: Health Informatics **********************************

CALL FOR PAPERS

The adoption of computer based Information Systems (IS) offers many healthcare organisations the ability to cope with the overwhelming demand for healthcare services and deals with a number of strategic and tactical issues. This technology is increasingly used in a wide variety of forms; such as supporting managerial decisions making, monitoring patients' progress, and enhancing clinical practices. However, the introduction and use of such technologies may have also its drawbacks, such as ethical issues and the costs of re-engineering and lack of understanding, those being tangible or intangible. Political and cultural issues may also be affected by such technology.

Papers sought for this special issue of the Journal of Management in Medicine focusing on health informatics which is mainly concerned with using information to manage healthcare processes, on the other hand, how the introduction and use of complex information systems may affect the traditional management process of health organisation. The main objective of this issue is to raise and stimulate debate regarding the critical issues surrounding healthcare and the new age of IS and IT. Papers should provide original theoretical underpinnings and rigorous empirical studies to support their arguments based on either qualitative or quantitative research. Contributed papers may include but not necessarily limited to the following topics:

· Computer Based Modelling · Clinical Decision Support Systems · Telemedicine and Telehealth . Evaluation of Healthcare Systems · Healthcare Processes Reengineering · IT Enabled Healthcare Strategic Decision Making · IT Management in Healthcare Organisations · Risks of IS Investments in healthcare Systems · Social/Human Aspects of Adopted Technologies · IT/IS Performance Measures in Healthcare Systems

Submission guidelines and important dates Three manuscripts should be between 3000-6000 words in length, with all contributions being subjected to a double-blind review process after it has been deemed suitable by the guest editors. There should be a separate title page giving the names and addresses of the authors. Manuscripts must be sent to the guest editor in chief by September 15th, 2001, and should follow the format of the Journal of Management in Medicine, which is available at http://www.mcb.co.uk/portfolio/jmm/notes.htm. Electronic submission is preferred though not essential.

Dr. Tillal Eldabi - Guest Editor in Chief Dr. Zahir Irani Prof. Ray J. Paul

---------------------- Dr Zahir Irani Senior Lecturer of Information Systems Dept of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (01895) 274 000 ext. 2133 Fax: +44 (01895) 251 686

E-Mail:Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstzni

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