New e-Health technology is often regarded as promising or even inevitable in order to modernize the delivery of care under growing budget restrictions. The latest report of the UK National Information Board outlines how latest Information Communication Technology might be used in the health and care domain in order to enable lower skilled individuals to complete routine tasks, which would typically require a higher skilled individual. In accordance with work published by Christensen “Disruptive Technologies” could increase effectiveness and efficiency in the health and care domains – if it was not for social aspects and a global resistance to change.
Although the global digital health market is currently one of the fastest growing industrial domains with lots of opportunities for products for mobile devices and novel technological ecosystems the associated risks for developers have been quite substantial and many products seem to fail on the last mile not because of technological deficiencies, but because of lack of acceptance by the user.
However, the application of technology to complex contexts such as healthcare, governance, or education, is often doomed. Stakeholder-take-up remains below expectations of technology providers and the concern of lack of return of investment frequently stops projects already in the planning stage.
This workshop is dedicated to look into the interdependencies of technological and social determents and is seeking to contribute to the theory building and the concrete improvements in the field of Social Technological Alignment. This includes social, technical, economical, ethical, legal and political aspects. The workshop addresses medical practitioners, social workers, nurses and therapists, scientists, developers, engineers, IT system administrators politicians, etc.
Topics:
- Social-technological alignment best practices and lessons learned
- Requirements engineering for public domain information systems
- Application of theory on public domain action
- Future internet for the public domain
- E-health & m-health
- E-governance
- Empiric study outcomes in the field
- Qualitative study results in the field
- Management
- Uptake analysis and analytical models
- SWOT Analysis models
- Case studies
- Legal aspects
- Ethical considerations
- Smart health and smart care services in smart cities
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission: August 10th, 2015
- Acceptance Notification: August 20th, 2015
- Final Camera Ready Submission: August 30th 2015
- Workshop : 14th – 17th October 2015
Programme Committee (Chair: Dr Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria):
- Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Ai Keow Lim Jumelle, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Larissa, Greece
- Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA
- Shahzad Basit, King Saud University, KSA
- Armin Schneider, TU Munich, Germany
All submissions must be made through the conference website:
http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/
Social-Technological Alignment @ IEEE Healthcom 