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CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
THE HOSPITAL OF THE FUTURE
Stuart Graduate School of Business
Center for the Management of Medical Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois, USA
28-30 July 2002
The first conference, held at the University of Twente, in Enschede, the Netherlands
in April 2001, generated a book: THE HOSPITAL OF THE FUTURE, forthcoming by Greenwood
Publishing Group in 2002, and a special issue of the International Journal of
Healthcare Technology and Management, forthcoming in Spring 2002.
This second conference will provide a forum for scholars across the spectrum of
healthcare management and technology. The theme of the conference is "bringing
together technology, health care, and management." The emphasis of the conference
will be on the gathering of researchers who are exploring the bridging of these
three components of healthcare delivery-with an eye toward the future - and
practitioners who are interested in these topics. How will healthcare delivery
institutions be shaped in the future? What are the trends and transformations that
await us in the coming years? How are we going to merge technology, management, and
medicine into a workable and economically feasible combination? What are the barriers
that we shall certainly encounter, and how can we overcome them? What are the
research questions that we should be addressing in this regard?
The conference will have five tracks:
- Management of technology in healthcare organisations: nature of work and skills in healthcare delivery; processes and performance; knowledge management in health care; strategies for technological positioning in hospitals; managed care and cost controls; uses of technology in primary care; logistics, infrastructure, and architecture of the hospital of the future.
- Management and organisation of information technology (IT) in healthcare organisations: applications and processes in the implementation and diffusion of IT in health care; role of standards in communication and organisation, networking by using IT; computerised medical records.
- Organisation, management, and applications of emerging medical technologies, e-health, telehealth, and telemedicine: role of these emerging technologies; processes, barriers, and organisational issues in the implementation and adoption of these technologies.
- Medical technologies and patient value: how medical technologies contribute value to patients; the role of patient confidentiality in view of technological developments; ethical issues; healthcare technologies and medical outcomes; the role of standards, regulations, government, and their impacts on medical technologies and the value to patients.
- Medical technologies and emergency medicine: how health care and medical technologies contribute and will continue to contribute to emergency medicine, crisis healthcare delivery, and health care in catastrophic situations.
Deadlines
| Abstracts due | 30 January 2002 |
| Acceptance notification | 1 March 2002 |
| Final papers due | 1 May 2002 |
| Pre-registration deadline | 15 May 2002 |
Contact
Elie Geisler
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Associate Dean for Research
Stuart Graduate School of Business
Illinois Institute of Technology
Email: geisler@stuart.iit.edu
Web site: http://hof.stuart.iit.edu
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