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Now in its 27th year, the Information Technology in Healthcare track at HICSS continues to evolve and expand while staying true to our founding mission: To serve as a forum at which healthcare, computer science, and information systems professionals come together to discuss the application of information technology in healthcare.
The cross-disciplinary nature of the track is clear in the wide range of minitracks and the papers within them. This year’s 12 minitracks represent 9 returning from last year and 3 new minitracks, noted with an asterisk below.
- Applying Digital Technologies and AI in Virtual Hospitals: Exploring Global Innovation Models*
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Infrastructures for Deep Learning, Generative Algorithms, and Intelligent Agents*
- Body Sensor Networks for Personalized Medicine
- Decision Support of Healthcare Processes and Services
- Health Behavior Change Support Systems
- Healthcare in Motion: Innovations in Mobility-Integrated Health Systems*
- IT Adoption, Diffusion and Evaluation in Healthcare
- Personal Health Management with Digital Solutions
- Security and Privacy Challenges for Healthcare
- Self-Management of Chronic Diseases and Conditions
- Social Media and Healthcare Technology
- Technology, Machine Learning and Bias in Emergency Care
The minitrack coordinators provide brief summaries of their minitrack and overviews of the papers in their sessions which cover a very diverse set of IT and health management related issues.
The largest minitracks continue to be those on IT adoption and diffusion, decision support for healthcare processes, and social media. Following the current IT innovation, the new minitracks bring a greater focus on artificial intelligence and remote and mobile healthcare.
We received 124 submissions to the track, with 56 accepted papers across the minitracks. Papers address a wide range of clinical, managerial, technical, social, and policy issues, and report on studies from around the world. Health issues addressed include technology assisted treatment of a range of disorders and diseases, from asthma and atrial fibrillation, to HPV, hypertension, and multiple sclerosis. Technologies investigated range from AI, to satellite and social networks. Management issues addressed include quality improvement in healthcare operations, decentralized information governance, third-party online healthcare platforms, and a variety of security issues. Taken as a whole, the papers provide insight into the continuing and future impacts of IT on health management and healthcare delivery.
Despite the diversity of topics and countries represented in this track, the papers have a common focus: How can information technologies be used to improve the quality of care, the efficiency of healthcare delivery, and the overall health and wellness of individuals and populations?
We wish to thank the people who have worked so diligently to develop this track, including our many thoughtful paper reviewers and minitrack coordinators; the high-quality collection of papers in the track is the fruit of their efforts. We look forward to the further development of this track. We also welcome, and strongly solicit, your participation in this track at future HICSS conferences. Please contact us with your ideas for new minitracks or papers.
We hope you find the proceedings useful and enjoyable.
William G. Chismar
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
chismar@hawaii.edu
Rochelle K. Rosen
Brown University
Rochelle_Rosen@Brown.edu