Workshop on “Healthcare Service Management and Modeling”

MWAIS 2010 Conference

May 21-22, 2010

Healthcare Workshop Program: Detailed

Download workshop CFP (in pdf)

Workshop Chairs:

Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA, gupta@mnstate.edu

John B. Osborn, Mayo Clinic, USA,  osborn.john@mayo.edu

Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, USA, ramesh.sharda@okstate.edu

Executive Advisory Board

Dr. Carol Brown, Stevens Institute of Technology, Distinguished Professor and Program Director Healthcare IT Management, Editor-in-Chief MIS Quarterly Executive

Dr. Ajay Aggarwal MD, FCCP, Director Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line, VA Medical Center, Fargo, ND

Keynote Speaker

M.E.T.R.I.C (Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care) Division Team at Mayo Clinic- Dr. Ogenjen Gajic, MD and research team members Dr. Yue Dong, MD and Dr. Brian Pickering, MBBCh

URL: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/gajic_lab/

Distinguished and Invited Speakers

1. Dr. Bruce G. Pitts, President,  Meritcare Medical Group

Topic: Healthcare Mergers and their effect on patient care quality

2. Dr. Tom Horan, PhD - Director of Kay E-Health Research at Claremont Graduate University and Director of Claremont Information and Technology Institute. URL- http://www.cgu.edu/pages/1525.asp  and http://www.kaycenter.org/index.php?s=overview&p=faculty

Topic: Evolution from Conceptual Modeling to Action Design: The Case of CrashHelp

3. Mark Rheault, President & CEO, IntelligentInSites - Ranked # 1  in nation as best places to work in Healthcare 

4. Dr. Ajay Aggarwal, MD, FCCP, Director Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line, VA Medical Center, Fargo.

Topic: Government Healthcare Systems- Strengths and Opportunities for Research

5.  Dr. Holly Rodin, Senior Healthcare Analyst in Healthcare Informatics at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and Dr. Amy R. Wilson, Manager in Healthcare Informatics at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

Topic: Using decision analysis to evaluate utilization review at a health insurance company

6.  Dr. Jagdish Singh, PhD –Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Science at NDSU. Extensively published with several grants from NIH, D. of Defense, etc.  http://www.ndsu.edu/pharmsci/faculty_staff/jagdish_singh/

Topic: Drug Development and Approval Process. Will also briefly discuss the new Pharmacy initiatives at NDSU and the Center of Excellence that they are planning to establish.

7.  John Osborn, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic

Topic- Operation Theater Scheduling

Workshop Description:

This workshop will have several invited speakers, panels, and research presentations from academics and various sectors representing healthcare industry such as hospitals, nursing, pharmaceutical. There will be a roundtable session at the workshop for providing feedback to authors for the journal special issue.

Workshop Scope:

Healthcare represents one of the most important sectors of any nation’s economy. US Department of Health & Human Services reports that healthcare spending forms about 17% of US Gross Domestic Product and projects that healthcare spending growth is expected to outpace the GDP growth (NHE projections 2008-2018).  Projections also suggest enormous growth and changes in various aspects of healthcare. However, healthcare is a perfect example of an extremely complex industry that is marred by poor efficiencies, rising costs, and extremely high regulation.

The complexity in healthcare often arises due to the involvement of multidisciplinary teams having interactions among several actors and stakeholders such as patients, hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, etc. Such complex interactions require us to develop decision models that can suggest improvements in information, work, material, and patient flow. Several factors contribute towards poor efficiencies within the healthcare system. Uncertain payback from the investment in healthcare technology potentially contributes towards low productivity outputs. Another factor is the presence of usually large supporting staff. There is a need for decision models that could suggest better utilization of hospital resources and a reduction in the overall patient service time per visit.  A contributing factor is the high regulation in the healthcare industry. Several government bodies and agencies such as CMS, FDA, Joint Commission, NCQA, etc. exercise tremendous control over various processes down to the very atomic level. Though such regulations generally tend to improve the quality and effectiveness of the entire healthcare system, it does potentially reduce the efficiency of healthcare systems.

This workshop invites original manuscripts (and work in progress) of high quality research that utilize various modeling,  analytical, empirical, qualitative approaches and make significant contribution towards a) improving the management or performance of any aspect of healthcare network or any of its constituents, b) using innovative approaches towards resolving problems of significant interest within the healthcare domain, c) proposing and testing decision models that suggest improvement in state-of-art healthcare practice or delivery.

Suggested Topics include, but not limited to, using various empirical, qualitative and analytical approaches that improve our decision making abilities in following areas (not an exhaustive list):

Decision models of healthcare reforms and policy analysis

Models of healthcare regulatory processes and delivery mechanisms 

Models that suggest improvement in patient care or overall quality and hospital performance

Improving decision making at various healthcare stakeholders and actors level

Social networking in healthcare

Business process and workflow management approaches as applied in healthcare delivery

Models suggesting improvement in Information, patient and material flow within and across healthcare networks

Decision models suggesting effective and efficient utilization of healthcare resources

Model based solutions to the problems in specific healthcare units such as oncology, cardiology

Decision models that help understand and control disease spread and progression, epidemic outbreak

Models of drug development and other aspects of pharmaceutical industry

Decision models related to the use (implementation, etc.) of technology in healthcare such as electronic medical records, telemedicine, RFID applications, etc.

Decision models related to the next generation healthcare cyber infrastructure

Modeling security and privacy related aspects of healthcare records

Case studies utilizing modeling and simulation approaches

Neuroscience

Latest trends in Information systems applications in healthcare

Decision models and issues pertaining to nursing

Models suggesting improvements in hospital out-patient services, surgery, and other healthcare units and resource utilization.

Proceedings and Journals Special issue

1. Accepted papers (full length and work-in-progress) will appear as proceedings in Association for Information Systems Electronic Library (AISeL). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the MWAIS conference no later than April 19, 2010, in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings and plan on presenting at the workshop.

 2. Selected papers from the workshop will be invited for submission to the special issue of Decision Support Systems Journal on ‘Modeling for Better Healthcare’. Selected authors may be invited to another follow-up workshop organized by the guest editors to provide additional feedback to the authors. Please see the DSS special issue CFP flyer (pdf).

Please note that acceptance or invitation to either workshop, though increases acceptance likelihood, does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue.

3. Another journal special issue or journal series will be announced later. Selected papers from this workshop will also be fast tracked to the special issue of this journal. More details will be announced later

Submission Instructions:

Please follow MWAIS conference submission guidelines available at http://www.mnstate.edu/schoolofbusiness/mwais2010/cfp.htm

Template for MWAIS 2010 submissions and camera-ready copy: mwais2010_paper_template.doc 

When submitting your manuscript for this workshop, please indicate that it is a 'Healthcare Service Management and Modeling workshop' submission

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline for Panels: March 1, 2010

Submission Deadline for Full-Length Papers, and Research-in-Progress: March 30, 2010

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 15, 2010

Author Registration Deadline: April 19, 2010

Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 26, 2010

Workshop Registration: There is no separate fees for this workshop. However, registration for MWAIS is required to attend this workshop. TO register for MWAIS 2010 conference, please visit:

http://www.mnstate.edu/schoolofbusiness/mwais2010/registration.htm