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Dear Colleagues,

the 10^th conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems will be held at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan (http://www.unibocconi.eu) on December 14^th 2013, as an ancillary event of ICIS 2013 (http://www.itais.org/itais2013).

Submissions will undergo a double blind peer review and a selection of the best papers will be published in a Springer volume indexed on Scopus. We are also arranging agreements for fast access to journals. Formatting rules and submission guidelines are available on conference website (www.itais.org/itais2013).

Please consider submitting your work to the following track:

IT-based innovation in Healthcare

The implementation of healthcare information systems and technologies (IT) is nowadays at the heart of the successful provision of healthcare services. Quality, appropriateness, and efficiency are all relevant performance dimensions on which IT-based innovation have significant impact. Whereas IT-based innovation is in principle desirable, its adoption and implementation poses a number of challenges and complexities for organizations in this field. First, multiple organizational dimensions of providers are subject to significantly change since the activities of a wide range of professionals and the way they provide services to patients are affected by the implementation of new information systems and technologies. However, professionals are often reluctant to change, and IT effectiveness may be hindered by the high degree of autonomy they held in organizations. The presence of various subcultures and the long-lasting conflict between administrators and professionals may also hamper IT effectiveness. The economic impact and sustainability of IT-based innovation is another major issue in this field, where resource constraint has progressively urged organizations and systems to accurately assess the cost-effectiveness of IT-based interventions. Because of the performance of healthcare organizations is multidimensional in nature, additional concerns regard the complete and accurate assessment of IT benefits in healthcare settings. In the last few years, health technology assessment functions, roles and tools have proliferated providing robust support in decision-making regarding IT adoption and implementation. The objective of the track is to seek original research contributions on IT-based innovation within healthcare systems and organizations. The track welcomes papers (work in progress as well as research ready to be published) that address issues related, without being limited, to the following areas:

• Design, implementation and management of healthcare information systems
• Diffusion of IT-based innovation in health care
• Adoption of IT-based innovation and organizational change in health care
• Barriers to the adoption and implementation of information systems in healthcare organizations
• Large-scale IT integration projects in health care
• Economic and organizational impact of IT-based innovation in healthcare
• Cross-country comparison of healthcare information systems
• Alliances and cooperative organizational arrangements for the development of innovative healthcare information systems
• Performance of IT-based innovation in health care organizations
• IT-based innovation and health technology assessment
• Data and systems standardisation and integration
• Accelerating value and innovation in healthcare through "big data" analysis

Keywords: healthcare organizations, health systems, organizational change, health technology assessment, e-health, telemedicine, IT-costs and IT-benefits, patients, big data analysis.

Below you will notice the important dates and the titles of the tracks.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for encouraged abstract submission: June 30th, 2013

Deadline for full paper submission: September 8^th, 2013
Notification of acceptance: October 15^th, 2013
Final paper or poster submission: November 18^th, 2013   

Conference: December 14^th, 2013

Best regards,

Daniele Mascia, PhD

Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Health Economics and Management

UNIVERSITA' CATTOLICA del Sacro Cuore

Largo F. Vito 1, 00168 - Rome (Italy)

Tel. +39.06.30156100

Fax. + 39.06.30155779