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Transforming Healthcare Through Information Systems

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems Development

  • Presents new thinking on theoretical and methodological issues for developing and managing information systems
  • Provides relevant research focusing on the confluence of information systems, technologies and management
  • Features current research on the transformation of healthcare through information systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation (LNISO, volume 17)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. A Method for Systematic Adaptation and Synchronization of Healthcare Processes

    • Álvaro E. Prieto, Adolfo Lozano-Tello, Roberto Rodríguez-Echeverría, Fernando Sánchez-Figueroa
    Pages 1-15
  3. A Monitoring Infrastructure for the Quality Assessment of Cloud Services

    • Priscila Cedillo, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Silvia Abrahao, Emilio Insfran
    Pages 17-32
  4. Community-Based Message Opportunistic Transmission

    • Sheng Zhang, Pengliu Tan, Xiaoling Bao, William Wei Song, Xiaodong Liu
    Pages 79-93
  5. Educational Artefacts as a Foundation for Development of Remote Speech-Language Therapies

    • Tihomir Orehovački, Dijana Plantak Vukovac, Tatjana Novosel-Herceg
    Pages 95-109
  6. Optimal Requirements—Dependent Model-Driven Agent Development

    • Joshua Z. Goncalves, Aneesh Krishna
    Pages 135-151
  7. Supporting People to Age-in-Place: Prototyping a Multi-sided Health and Wellbeing Platform in a Living Lab Setting

    • Wally J.W. Keijzer-Broers, Lucas Florez-Atehortua, Mark de Reuver
    Pages 153-165
  8. Understanding Problematic Smartphone Use and Its Characteristics: A Perspective on Behavioral Addiction

    • Chuang Wang, Matthew K. O. Lee, Chen Yang, Xiaodong Li
    Pages 215-225

About this book

This book introduces ongoing reflections within the research community on established information systems development topics and emerging concepts, approaches and ideas in the field of healthcare information systems. By promoting research on theoretical and methodological issues related to both information systems development in general and healthcare information systems in particular, it presents current research in order to promote improved practice. It comprises a selection of the best papers presented at the 24th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) held in Harbin, China, August 25 – 27, 2015.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

    Doug Vogel, Xitong Guo

  • Caulfield School of IT, Monash Univ, Caulfield East, Australia

    Henry Linger

  • Cairnes School of Business & Econonomics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  • Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

  • City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Christoph Schneider

About the editors

Doug Vogel is professor of Information Systems (IS) and Director of the eHealth Research Institute in the School of Management at the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests reflect a concern for encouraging efficient and effective utilization of computer systems in an atmosphere conducive to enhancing the quality of life.

Xitong Guo is Professor of Information Systems at the Harbin Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on eHealth and IT enabled innovation.

Henry Linger is a senior researcher in the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research is at the intersection of information systems, knowledge management, and project management, with a focus on the design of information systems to support knowledge work.

Chris Barry works with the Cairnes School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He lectures and researches a range of areas in information systems including systems analysis and design, information systems management, and ethics in information systems development.

Michael Lang is a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the Cairnes School of Business and Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests are business systems analysis and design, information systems privacy, and information systems education.

Christoph Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the effects of user interface design on cognition, affect, and behavior, in particular in the context of Web-based user interfaces.

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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