Healthcare Informatics and Health IT (SIG HEALTH)

The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital platforms, automation, and data-centric innovations has had a profound impact on the healthcare sector, leading to dramatic changes in health informatics and broader health information technology innovations. The Healthcare Informatics and Health Information Technology (HIT) track seeks to promote research into ground-breaking technology innovations and applications within the healthcare sector while incorporating interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches beyond the traditional information systems (IS) and health information technology (HIT) disciplines. Information systems and technology (IT) innovations offer significant potential to transform care delivery, improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system, enhance interactions between patients/caregivers and providers, and enable greater access to the latest advancements in treatments, among other accomplishments and outcomes. Academic efforts within the Healthcare Technology and Systems track should demonstrate novel work within the IS discipline. The information systems community also draws upon computer science, economics, organizational behavior, public policy, public health, software/electrical engineering, management, and strategy. Completed research and research-in-progress topics might include, opportunities and challenges faced within the current healthcare sector; advances in healthcare information technologies (HIT), electronic health (e-health), telemedicine, and mobile health (m-health), among other innovative technological applications; as well as healthcare industry-specific issues related to traditional IS research concerns, including adoption and diffusion, systems design and implementation, as well as IS success.

Track Chairs
Rich Klein, Illinois Institute of Technology, rklein6@illinoistech.edu
Kaushik Ghosh, Suffolk University, kghosh@suffolk.edu