Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare Settings
Guest Editors:
* Madhu Reddy, PhD, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
PA, USA
* Jakob Bardram, PhD, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
* Paul Gorman, MD., Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical
Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Sciences University,
Portland, OR, USA
Healthcare is among the most complex and highly collaborative domains of
work in the world. For instance, with the increasing complexity and
specialization of medical care in settings such as hospitals, individual
care has given way to multidisciplinary patient-care processes. The
National Institute of Medicine in its landmark Crossing the Quality
Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century states that patient care
teams will become central to the delivery of high-quality medical care.
Clearly, collaboration is a central component to effective patient care
teams as well as central aspect of the healthcare delivery. With the
focus on patient-centered care, collaboration also plays an essential
role in informal care settings such as the patient's home. For these
reasons, it has become critically important that health information
technologies are understood, designed, built, and deployed with
collaboration in mind.
This special issue calls for original research and methodology papers on
the role of health information technologies in supporting collaboration
in healthcare. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together a
set of research papers that will (1) advance our understanding of
collaboration in healthcare, (2) discuss the role of technology in
supporting/hindering collaboration, and (3) provide examples of
effective collaborative health information technologies. Through this
special issue, we hope to increase the awareness of the importance of
understanding and supporting collaboration in this important domain.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
* Empirical studies exploring collaboration around the use of health IT
in both traditional (e.g., hospitals) and non-traditional
settings (e.g., health websites)
* Methodologies for conducting research on collaboration in the
healthcare domain
* New designs and technologies that support collaboration in healthcare
* Evaluation techniques for collaborative technologies in healthcare
* Evaluation studies of Health IT with respect to how well they support
collaboration and coordination needs
* Case studies on the deployment and long-term use of collaborative
technologies in healthcare
There will also be a workshop <http://sites.google.com/site/cscwinhc/>
related to this special issue to be held in conjunction with the 2010
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
<http://www.cscw2010.org/> . You do *not* have to attend the workshop to
submit to the special issue but we would welcome your participation if
interested.
Important Dates:
* Papers to be submitted: March 31, 2010
* Peer reviews completed: June 31, 2010
* Revisions completed and submitted: August 1, 2010
* Publication date: October/November 2010
Length of the paper: 15-30 manuscript pages (double spaced)
If you intend to submit a paper to this special issue, you are strongly
encouraged to send a brief email to Dr. Madhu Reddy
(mreddy@ist.psu.edu) at your earliest convenience. The email should
include the tentative title of the paper, the list of
authors, and the institutions of the authors. Also, if you have any
questions concerning submitting to the special issue,
please contact Dr. Reddy.
Information about International Journal of Medical Informatics
Editors-in-Chief: C. Safran and J. Talmon
Journal web site http://ees.elsevier.com/ijmi/
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