-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2020 Call for Papers: Digital Transformation in Healthcare Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:29:23 -0500 From: Michael Dohan msdohan@lakeheadu.ca To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

2020 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12-16, 2020. https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org

AMCIS 2020 Conference Theme: A Vision for the Future

*DESCRIPTION*

We are at the beginning of a fourth industrial revolution, enabled by emergence of new and improved digital capabilities. Many believe that digital transformation, defined as digitally-enabled, continuous, strategic undertaking to significantly improve business processes and customer engagement, is critical to advance the state of healthcare in order to improve patient outcomes.

Digital transformation in healthcare emphasizes strategic undertakings enabled by emerging technologies to facilitate the experience of patients during their interactions with various entities in the healthcare system. This minitrack seeks to understand key strategic drivers of digital transformation for some of the entities in the healthcare value chain, including providers, payers, and many others. The aim is to develop a comprehensive view of how patient outcomes and experience can be improved through digital transformation. This minitrack will consider empirical research, reviews of current literature, theory, methodology, and evaluations of technology, and position papers.

*SUBMISSION TYPES*

- Full papers must not exceed 10 pages (approx. 5,000 words) Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers must not exceed 5 pages (approx. 2,500 words) - All submissions must conform to the AMCIS 2020 submission template ( https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions) and will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

- February 28, 2020: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes at 5:00pm MST - April 13, 2020: Track Chair recommendations due - April 22, 2020: Camera-ready papers are due at 5:00 pm MST

*MINI-TRACK CHAIRS*

Dr. Michael S. Dohan Lakehead University msdohan@lakeheadu.ca

Dr. Kaushik Ghosh Suffolk University kghosh@suffolk.edu

Dr. Joseph Tan McMaster University tanjosep@mcmaster.ca