-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Unintended, negative consequences of IT implementations in healthcare (Final call for papers HICSS-53, Maui) Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 09:59:41 -0700 From: Virginia Ilie ilie.virginia@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Dear colleagues,

We are offering a new mini-track this year at HICSS - *Unintended, negative consequences of IT implementations in healthcare -* and invite you to submit your work.

Research on the *positive aspects* of Information Technology (IT) implementations in healthcare abounds. Electronic medical record systems (EMR) and other advanced IT solutions have the potential to reduce healthcare costs, increase quality of care, standardize best practices and allow physicians and patients access to inter-operable medical records globally. However, there are many potential *negative aspects* and consequences associated with complex IT implementations in healthcare that remain under-researched. While some challenges are technological in nature, others are internal, organizational as well as external, regulatory.

*2020 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-53)*

January 7-10, 2020, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA

*http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ http://hicss.hawaii.edu/*

*Track: Information Technology in Healthcare*

*Mini-track**: Unintended, negative consequences of IT implementations in healthcare*

In the era of smart devices and usable interfaces, many commercially available EMRs offer a user experience with often sub-optimal usability. Medical practitioners work under severe time constraints and are much less understanding and forgiving of system limitations. Patients also expect flawless access to their medical records.

This mini-track calls for research associated with any *unintended or negative aspects *of IT implementations in the healthcare domain at various levels of analysis, individual, organizational or societal. Such research should help inform both academics and practitioners of unintended negative consequences from complex IT implementations and introduce possible solutions to alleviate such impacts.

We seek research on topics such as:

· Misuse of EMR systems by clinical staff, patients or other entities.

· Lack of innovation in EMR interface design.

· Impacts on clinical workflows and provider-to-provider communication patterns.

· System design issues and associated consequences.

· Challenges in obtaining complete information at the point of care or information overload.

· Increased difficulties in information sharing among providers or healthcare entities.

· Dehumanizing of the patient-provider interaction.

· User workarounds and new types of medical errors.

· Physician/nurse/patient dissatisfaction with clinical systems.

· Security attacks and hospital data hacking and ransoming.

· Patient privacy issues.

· HIPAA violations and recommendations to stay compliant.

· Increased hospital costs.

· Challenges for smaller clinical practices in selecting and working with an EMR vendor.

· Abandonment of costly EMR projects.

· Any other unintended or negative EMR impacts.

Completed papers or research in progress with all types of research methodologies are welcome.

Please contact Dr. Virginia Ilie with any questions or if you’d like to discuss a paper concept before submitting

*Important Dates*:

April 15, 2019: Beginning of Submission Period

June 15, 2019: Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST)

August 17, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

September 22, 2019: Deadline for Final Manuscript

October 1, 2019: Deadline for at least one author to register for the conference

January 7, 2020: Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials

January 8-10, 2020: Paper Presentations

*Co-chairs** of the “**Unintended, negative consequences of IT implementations in healthcare” mini-track:*

Virginia Ilie, Ph.D. (primary contact), vilie@callutheran.edu

Sweta Sneha, Ph.D. ssneha@kennesaw.edu

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