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June 18-19, 2009 University of Copenhagen Call for Paper
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Call for Papers Second International Workshop Infrastructures for Health Care: Connecting practices across institutional and professional boundaries June 18-19, 2009, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Scope The first international workshop: Infrastructures for Health Care was held at the Technical University of Denmark in June 2006. It attracted researchers, health care professionals, IT professionals, administrators, and others engaged in the development of infrastructures and new, integrated applications and services for improving the quality of health care services. The purpose of this second international workshop is to continue this forum for discussing current issues and trends related to the integration and coordination of health care practices across institutional, organizational, and professional boundaries. The health care sector is characterized by a worsening shortage of personnel and endlessly growing costs caused by the development of new treatments in combination with rising demands for treatment, which are associated with an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases. Against this backdrop, policy makers, health care professionals and researchers show an increased interest in innovative systems of care, which improve communication, coordination and collaboration among patients/citizens, care providers in primary care and specialty services (clinics, hospitals, emergency departments, old people’s homes etc.). Concepts like shared care, integrated care and continuity of care are indicative of ambitions of creating coherent and effective health care services for patients that require complex – and often long-term – care. Although these concepts are often used in relation to projects that seek to enhance communication, coordination, and collaboration around particular patient groups, they also have bearing on more general visions of reorganizing health care. Infrastructural arrangements – such as electronic patient records, classification schemes, accounting systems, communication standards, and quality systems – play a crucial role in these new models of care, and it is increasingly hard to imagine integrative initiatives that do not have a strong IT component. This raises a multitude of questions about the – actual and imagined – role and impact of IT and other infrastructure components in the development of patient-oriented, integrated healthcare services. We wish to highlight how new infrastructures – socio-technical assemblages – simultaneously connect existing practices, influence and change these practices, and create entirely new practices in health care work (e.g. related to the maintenance of the infrastructure itself). What characterizes infrastructures in health care? What role do they play in transforming and reorganizing health care and in creating new actors in health care? How are infrastructures established and maintained? What is the impact on work practices, organizational structures, cost effectiveness, quality of care, etc.? Topics of Interest Our aim is to bring together researchers, health care professionals, IT professionals, administrators and others involved in establishing infrastructures and/or developing new, integrated models of healthcare. We seek practical case studies as well as empirical and theoretical research contributions. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following: • Infrastructures as socio-technical achievement in health care • Health care organizations and infrastructures • Infrastructures and new patient practices • Designing infrastructures for health care • Economic aspects of infrastructures for health care • Myths of infrastructures • Infrastructures and politics • Managing infrastructures We encourage potential participants to submit an abstract (3-500 words) describing the contribution before March 1, 2009. Abstracts must be submitted by email to infrastructures2009@sundhedsITnet.dk After the conference, a selection of the contributors will be invited to submit a full paper to an edited - and fully reviewed - book or special issue (to be decided). List of important date Submission of abstracts 1st of March 2009 Notification of acceptance 1st of April 2009 Deadline for registration 15th of May 2009 Conference 18th – 19th of June 2009 Workshop Co-Chairs Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jørgen P. Bansler, Technical University of Denmark Program committee Stig Kjær Andersen, Aalborg University Roland Bal, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Ole Hanseth, Oslo University Mark Hartswood, University of Edinburgh Brit Ross Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen Margit Kristensen, Århus University Henriette Langstrup, University of Copenhagen Eric Monteiro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jesper Simonsen, University of Roskilde Ina Wagner, Vienna University of Technology
We are looking forward to an exciting workshop! |