Consortium Topics
Although a wide variety of topics and interests are welcomed in the consortium, they must revolve or be linked to organizational or social issues. For instance, the issue of knowledge management should be approached from an organizational not technical perspective.
The topics for submissions include (but are not limited to):
- Technology Adoption and Use
- Support for Cooperative Work
- Governance issues related to technology
- Knowledge Management
- Information Needs and Seeking
- Application implementation issues
- Clinicians' and patients' perceptions and attitudes towards health informatics
- Dynamics of project and evaluation teams
- Evaluation and research methods for studying information systems in health care
- Implications of telehealth
- Reasons for patterns of acceptance, diffusion, and use of information and communication technologies in health care
- Records and rationalization in health care
- Key ethical, legal, social and policy challenges related to healthcare technologies
- Sociotechnical issues related to healthcare technologies