About this Research Topic
Now more than ever, health happens everywhere. Though healthcare has traditionally been contained to predefined environments, health prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and ongoing monitoring is taking place at home, work and school. Healthcare is in high demand outside the walls of traditional healthcare facilities. A wide range of organizations (e.g., home health providers, pharmacies, retailers, tech firms, large employers, and payers) are filling gaps in the marketplace that current care delivery providers are not meeting. Such examples are functional medicine enterprises, at-home diagnostic kits, remote patient monitoring, convenient on-premise-on-demand primary care, and synchronous or asynchronous virtual visits. Rapidly changing delivery models are shaping the new healthcare landscape far beyond a COVID-19 world.
A key focus of this Research Topic is on the ever-changing nature of business, financial and care delivery models and the role of information systems and technology (IS&T) as enablers. This issue seeks to highlight novel research on emergent digital health IS&T, including their design, field testing, evaluation, and broader impacts. We welcome submissions that present innovative models, frameworks, and technologies that delve into how IS&T supports health to happen everywhere. Studies are encouraged that report on a range of technology artifacts including mobile devices, wearables and other IOT devices, sensors, telehealth applications, tele-monitoring, mHealth apps, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tech, blockchain applications, EHR extension apps for non-traditional healthcare environments, and integrations with these technologies and EHRs – that address how designs, implementations, methodologies, and theories are affecting healthcare delivery models and challenging current models to improve access, patient engagement, costs, and population health.
The following topics are of particular interest:
Ubiquitous Healthcare Innovations:
- Innovations supporting “in place” healthcare (eg. aging in place, rehabbing in place, disease monitoring, etc.)
- Remote screenings and diagnostics
- Demonstrations of information systems to further ubiquitous healthcare across populations and regions
- Social networking approaches to achieving ubiquitous healthcare
- IS&T as an enabler in equitable healthcare delivery across populations
Users, Stakeholders, and Policy:
- Pandemic policies and information system stakeholders
- Use cases for special populations (eg. Persons with disabilities, incarcerated people, youth, fitness, etc.)
- Integration of ubiquitous healthcare in graduate medical or other clinical education environments
- Challenges to the business model of traditional healthcare
Infrastructure Requirements and Developments for Ubiquitous Healthcare:
- Interoperability requirements and frameworks
- COVID-19 product/service supply-chain and modeling
- Approaches and methods for achieving next generation delivery models
- Infrastructure needs or advances to improve current state healthcare delivery
A key focus of this Research Topic is on the ever-changing nature of business, financial and care delivery models and the role of information systems and technology (IS&T) as enablers. This issue seeks to highlight novel research on emergent digital health IS&T, including their design, field testing, evaluation, and broader impacts. We welcome submissions that present innovative models, frameworks, and technologies that delve into how IS&T supports health to happen everywhere. Studies are encouraged that report on a range of technology artifacts including mobile devices, wearables and other IOT devices, sensors, telehealth applications, tele-monitoring, mHealth apps, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tech, blockchain applications, EHR extension apps for non-traditional healthcare environments, and integrations with these technologies and EHRs – that address how designs, implementations, methodologies, and theories are affecting healthcare delivery models and challenging current models to improve access, patient engagement, costs, and population health.
The following topics are of particular interest:
Ubiquitous Healthcare Innovations:
- Innovations supporting “in place” healthcare (eg. aging in place, rehabbing in place, disease monitoring, etc.)
- Remote screenings and diagnostics
- Demonstrations of information systems to further ubiquitous healthcare across populations and regions
- Social networking approaches to achieving ubiquitous healthcare
- IS&T as an enabler in equitable healthcare delivery across populations
Users, Stakeholders, and Policy:
- Pandemic policies and information system stakeholders
- Use cases for special populations (eg. Persons with disabilities, incarcerated people, youth, fitness, etc.)
- Integration of ubiquitous healthcare in graduate medical or other clinical education environments
- Challenges to the business model of traditional healthcare
Infrastructure Requirements and Developments for Ubiquitous Healthcare:
- Interoperability requirements and frameworks
- COVID-19 product/service supply-chain and modeling
- Approaches and methods for achieving next generation delivery models
- Infrastructure needs or advances to improve current state healthcare delivery
Keywords: mhealth, healthcare innovation, remote patient monitoring, telehealth, design science
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