9th Annual Conference on Health IT & Analytics (CHITA)go.umd.edu/chita2018
Chair : Ritu Agarwal
Program Co-Chairs : Guodong (Gordon) Gao and Jeffrey S. McCullough
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions to CHITA 2018. CHITA is an annual research summit and doctoral consortium that gathers prominent scholars in a multi- disciplinary setting. CHITA focuses on the increasing role, importance and impact of analytics and health information technology in improving individual and population health, and health system quality and performance. Each year, the conference attracts over 100 scholars and thought leaders from more than 40 institutions. CHITA provides a forum for researchers to disseminate their work and network within a growing and vibrant community. This conference fosters collaboration between academia, government, and industry to bridge research, policy, and practice.
CHITA will be held in Washington DC, center of health policy debates, on Friday and Saturday, October 19th - 20th, 2018 with a pre-conference doctoral consortium on Thursday, October 18th. The conference is hosted by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. CHIDS was established in 2005, and is the first academic research center focused on health information and decision systems in a leading business school. CHITA is produced in partnership with the University of Michigan School of Public Health with support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Papers are solicited on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: Health IT's adoption and impact; Healthcare analytics and big data; Health information exchange and interoperability; New IT-enabled organizational forms and delivery models; Market competition and health insurance exchange; mHealth and patient empowerment; and Quality transparency and public reporting. There is special interest this year in the following emerging topics: AI applications for healthcare; Adoption and integration of analytics; Opioids; Priority populations: Population health management: Cybersecurity; Behavior (both of providers and patients); and, Policy modeling.
Please submit either a brief abstract (one page), an extended abstract of no more than 5 pages (11-pt font, one-inch margins on four sides, double-spaced) or a full manuscript at
https://app.conferency.com/chita2018 by
Friday, July 20, 2018 . Submissions will be reviewed for novelty, rigor, and policy impact. Decisions will be sent to authors no later than Friday, August 17, 2018. The conference will include full presentations, research round tables, and research panels (which feature several brief presentations). As in the past, CHITA will give awards for Best Paper, Best student-authored Paper, and Young Researcher. The latter two awards are given to papers with either a student or junior researcher as the lead author. To be considered for awards, full papers should be submitted at
https://app.conferency.com/chita2018 by Friday, September 21, 2018.
For further information and updates, including about the Doctoral Consortium program, please check go.umd.edu/chita2018 . A limited number of graduate student and early investigator small travel grants will be made available. Programs and photo albums of previous years are available on the conference website for your perusal. We look forward to your participation.
*Note: CHITA does not assume copyright over work accepted for presentation. Conference abstract Proceedings will be indexed, with authors able to optionally participate or not.
About the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems
The Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS) is an academic research center in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park. CHIDS works in collaboration with industry, clinical and government partners to develop solutions to the challenges surrounding the design, adoption and integration of information technologies into the healthcare system. The research at CHIDS seeks to understand how digital technologies can be more effectively deployed to address outcomes such as patient safety, healthcare quality, efficiency in healthcare delivery, and a reduction in health disparities. CHIDS draws on the expertise of the Decision, Operations & Information Technologies Department (DO&IT) at the Smith School and the University of Maryland Schools of Engineering, Public Health, Medicine, and Pharmacy. DO&IT is acknowledged by several publications as a Top 5 performer in research production worldwide and the Information Systems group ranks in the top 10 worldwide in Business Week and U.S. News and World Report. Since its inception in 2005, CHIDS has served as a focal point for thought leadership around the topic of digitally-enabled health transformation.
Contact:
Kenyon Crowley
Deputy Director, CHIDS
(301) 405-9593
chids@rhsmith.umd.edu------------------------------
Guodong (Gordon) Gao
Associate Professor
University of Maryland
College Park MD
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