Call for Paper

• Health information technology
• Costs and benefits of health information technology
• Problems with health information technology
• Health care quality or effectiveness
• Health care productivity or efficiency
• Medical errors and health care accuracy
• Health care costs
• Administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes
• Health informatics among health care professionals
• Types of technology
• Electronic health record
• Clinical point of care technology
• Technological innovations, opportunities and challenges
• Technological iatrogenesis
• Revenue cycle health information technology
• International comparisons through health information technology
• Patient billing
• Accounting systems
• Personnel and payroll
• Materials management
• Order entry for drugs, lab tests, procedures
• Electronic health records
• Diagnostic image archiving
• Lab results
• Clinical decision support systems
• Prescription drug fulfillment, error-alert and transcriptions
• Monitoring of patients in intensive care units
• Personal computers
• Servers and wireless network routers
• Voice recognition systems for transcription, physician orders and medical records
• Bar-coding for drugs, medical device inventory control
• Information security systems
• New paradigms and perspectives
• Engineering applications
• Future directions
• Future prospects and trends
• Application areas