E-Health calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers on the Topic of Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Deadline: July 15 2012

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
CALL FOR PAPERS: Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century
March 2013 (Volume 45 No 1)

Health information systems (e.g., nursing information systems, electronic health record systems, personal health record systems, telehealth/telenursing systems) are being implemented globally to improve the quality, efficiency, and safety of patient care. Increasingly, nurses are involved in the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of health information systems to support patient care, nursing, and the work of health professionals.

For this issue of CJNR we invite papers that focus on issues in nursing informatics and health/biomedical informatics as they relate to nursing. We welcome reports on completed qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and syntheses. Papers on theoretical, methodological, and current trends in nursing informatics are also welcome. Examples of topics include the following: competencies in nursing terminologies; competencies in nursing informatics; implementation of electronic health record systems and its effect on nursing work; patient-nurse use of personal health record systems; disease management systems; systems usability as it relates to nursing personnel and nursing care; impacts of systems on nursing workflow; decision-support systems for nurses; importance of health and information literacy; and mobile health and nursing. We welcome submissions from nurses (e.g., nursing informatics specialists, nurse administrators), health informatics specialists, and nursing/health and biomedical informatics researchers whose focus is nursing informatics. Manuscripts describing international approaches to nursing informatics issues are welcome.

Guest Editors: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki and Dr. Noreen Frisch
Submission deadline: July 15, 2012

Please submit papers online Using CJNR E-journal Press at http://cjnr.msubmit.net

For assistance: cjnr.nursing@mcgill.ca

Call for Papers: Journal of Applied Gerontology

The Official Journal of the Southern Gerontological Society

The Journal of Applied Gerontology (JAG) provides an international forum for information that has clear and immediate applicability to the health, care, and quality of life of older persons.
Each issue brings you the latest research and analysis from the field—and helps you apply it to your everyday practice.

Comprehensive Coverage
The Journal of Applied Gerontology publishes articles in all subdisciplines of gerontology whose findings, conclusions, or suggestions have clear and sometimes immediate applicability to the problems encountered by older persons as well as articles that inform research and the development of interventions. With JAG you'll have access to original studies by distinguished authors on a wide range of gerontological issues.

The Journal of Applied Gerontology particularly invites manuscripts featuring the systematic evaluation and outcomes assessment of programs, services, and initiatives targeting older populations.

JAG brings you comprehensive coverage of all areas of gerontological practice and policy, such as:

• Caregiving
• Exercise
• Death and dying
• Physical activity
• Ethnicity and aging
• Technology and care
• Advanced directives
• Housing
• Long-term care
• Mental health
• Retirement planning
• Sexuality
• Volunteering

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology: Using Technology to Facilitate Chronic Disease Management

Guest Editors:
Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia

Chronic disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and economic loss in most countries today. Hence, it has become a central problem for healthcare and many are looking for solutions.

Early detection and prevention of chronic disease is one of the preferred strategies for reducing the incidence of chronic disease and address escalating cost issues. It has been widely documented that assisting chronic disease management through information technology tends to facilitate better health outcomes. We are therefore seeing several health IT projects being initiated and successfully supporting chronic disease management.

This special issue aims to host a discussion and discourse on the possible applications of IS/IT (information systems/information technology) to facilitate better chronic disease management.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Facilitating standardisation via including care plans and guidelines for health information systems and developing decision support systems for assisting healthcare providers' decision making

Technology for delivery of care, e.g. artificial pancreases, implants, telemedicine, radiology, smart devices such as insulin pumps and implants

Electronic health records; health information systems; computerised guidelines; prevention; patient education; care and assistance for elderly people; lifestyle modifications such as physical activities, nutrition, weight management and mental health

Design and development of portals, communication platforms and/or the role of online social networks

Applications for mobile solutions to facilitate monitoring and/or management

Specific technology solutions to address better monitoring and management of asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease, arthritis, chronic pain and obesity

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Papers due: 20 October, 2012

Review results: 31 January, 2013

Final paper due: 20 April 2013

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an email (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. Khin Than Win
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Informatics
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Email: win@uow.edu.au

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
RMIT University
College of Business
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
E-mail: nilmini.wickramasinghe@rmit.edu.au

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

Call for Manuscripts on Health Education and Promotion for the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health

The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health is soliciting manuscripts for the 2013 continuing education theme issues on Health Education and Promotion. We invite submissions that address optimizing women’s health and reproductive health outcomes. Potential topics include:

· Health education: beyond patient handouts

· Use of social media in health education and promotion

· Promoting healthy habits

· Health promotion recommendations by age group

· Obesity

· Cardiovascular disease prevention

· Diabetes prevention

· Cancer screening

· Health disparities

· Types of psychotherapy/counseling

· Exercise

· Smoking cessation

· Substance abuse

· Sexual health

· Contraception, particularly long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)

· Health promotion for postmenopausal women

· Management of unintended pregnancy

· Preconception care

· Interconception care and/or birth spacing

· Genetics

· Prevention of birth defects

· Environmental health

· Preventing teratogenic exposures during pregnancy

Other relevant topics are welcome. All types of articles will be considered, and descriptions of the article types can be found on the next page. The deadline for initial manuscript submission is August 1, 2012.

Please send your proposed topic, type of article, and contact information to JMWH Editor-in-Chief Frances E. Likis, CNM, NP, DrPH, FACNM, at flikis@acnm.org.

Call for Papers: Health Policy and Technology

Health Policy and Technology (HPT), a new journal from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), has been launched in March 2012 as a cross-disciplinary journal, which will focus on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments. HPT is published on the FPM's behalf by Elsevier, a major international scientific, technical and medical publisher (see the Elsevier press release about the new journal).

The FPM continues to publish its first international publication, the Postgraduate Medical Journal, launched in 1925. HPT provides a further excellent way for the FPM to continue to make important national and international contributions to development of policy and practice within medicine and related disciplines. The aim of the FPM in establishing this new international journal is to publish relevant, timely and accessible articles and commentaries to support policy-makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in health policy and technology.

Topics covered by HPT will include

- Health technology, including drug discovery, diagnostics, medicines, devices, therapeutic delivery and eHealth systems
- Cross-national comparisons on health policy using evidence-based approaches
- National studies on health policy to determine the outcomes of technology-driven initiatives
- Cross-border eHealth including health tourism
- The digital divide in mobility, access and affordability of healthcare
- Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical health technologies
- Health and eHealth indicators and benchmarks (measure/metrics) for understanding the adoption and diffusion of health technologies
- Health and eHealth models and frameworks to support policy-makers and other stakeholders in decision-making
- Stakeholder engagement with health technologies (clinical and patient/citizen buy-in)
- Regulation and health economics

For more information about the new journal go to: http://www.healthpolicyandtechnology.org

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cognitive Technology Journal: Designing Educational Games

The use of computer games as common vehicles for impacting cognition, as opposed to pure entertainment, has recently gained immense popularity. Games may be developed to educate children about their health condition or to improve their understanding of math or history, examine economic policies, encourage the discussion of public health policy for individuals, or to encourage change in user's lifestyle. The proliferation of games has profound implications not only for the entertainment industry, but also for the research community interested in studying the impact of using such games on cognitive abilities of the users.

In this Special Issue, Cognitive Technology will bring together researchers from across the world to consider new research that illustrates the potential of computer games as a cognitive technology for teaching and learning. Guest editors, Dr. Nilufar Baghaei and Dr. Aaron Chen, are seeking original research papers that illustrate the capacity or potential of games for enhancing the users' learning experience and increasing their knowledge of any domain ranging from health-related issues to math and languages.

Topics of Interest

The international journal of Cognitive Technology is planning a special issue on designing educational games (expected publication Spring 2013). Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research (applied or theoretical), that deal with innovative approaches of using game technologies as cognitive tools for increasing the learning outcome of the users and/or enhancing their learning experience.

We invite papers that address one of the following topics, or a closely related one:

Educational games as a cognitive technology for learning

Designing educational games for people with disabilities and/or health conditions

Integrating games with health care applications

Intelligent Tutoring Systems and adaptive educational games

Designing, developing and evaluating educational games on mobile devices

Understanding the problems and limitations of using games as cognitive technologies

Best practices for designing educational games based on cognitive science

Empirical or case studies of increasing users' motivation for learning using educational games

Empirical studies of educational games and their effectiveness in increasing users' domain knowledge

Empirical or case studies of perceptual and cognitive advantages and disadvantages of educational games

Future directions of designing, developing and deploying educational games in instructional settings

Submission and Format

Research papers submitted for this journal should be original and must not exceed 15 double-spaced manuscript pages inclusive of title page, abstract page, references, figures, tables, and appendices. The papers should be submitted to Dr. Baghaei or Dr. Chen via email. They should be prepared in line with the formatting guidelines of Cognitive Technology Journal. Additional details about final manuscript format requirements will be sent upon notification of acceptance.

For queries regarding the special issue, the guest editors can be contacted at: nbaghaei@unitec.ac.nz or achen2@unitec.ac.nz
Important Dates

August 24, 2012: Paper submission deadline
September 28, 2012: Peer reviews completed
October 26, 2012: Re-submission of revised papers
November 23, 2012: Submission of camera ready versions
Spring 2013: Journal publication

Guest Editors

Dr. Nilufar Baghaei, Dept of Computing, UNITEC, New Zealand
Dr. Aaron Chen, Dept of Computing, UNITEC, New Zealand
Dr. Paul Pivec, CranberryBlue R&D (UK/NZ) Ltd, New Zealand

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research: Smartphones, Sensors, and Social Networks: A New Age of Health Behavior Change

Submission Deadline November 30, 2012

For submission information: http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/13142

Traditional health behavior change interventions have long been limited by high expense, patient burden, and poor adherence. As health professionals, our access to intervene upon patients’ behavior is constrained by current models of health care which limit care provision to face-to-face visits provided on a weekly schedule or less frequently. Limited access to patients limits our ability to gain an accurate understanding of the antecedents and consequences of behavior, and to intervene in the moments when patients most need help. Computing technology including mobile phones, sensors, and online social networks – by being available in real time – are being explored as ways to enhance our ability to understand health behavior and more effectively intervene upon it. mHealth, the application of mobile technology to health, has reached its tipping point. A rapidly growing body of research evidence demonstrates the efficacy of mHealth approaches across a wide range of conditions, populations, and settings. mHealth has also attracted a parallel explosion of industry attention. An extremely diverse group of companies are capitalizing on the mHealth market, which is projected to reach $23 billion in revenues by 2017. Sensing technologies are also rapidly being developed to gather behavioral, physiological, and contextual data that can then be used to predict behavior or deliver “just-in-time” interventions. Finally, online social networking, a service that allows individuals to interact and communicate with other users without geographical, physical, or logistical barriers has now been used for health surveillance, disseminating information and innovations, and health behavior intervention. The potential of these technologies to impact health behavior change has yet to be fully realized. The purpose of this special issue is to draw papers from academicians, clinicians, and industry professionals who are developing, testing, and/or researching the efficacy of these technologies for health behavior change.

Given that opportunities for academic-industry communication and collaboration have been too infrequent, we have seen relatively limited translation of evidence-based mHealth approaches into the real-world settings that are largely served by industry. We suspect that collaboration between industry and the research community might accelerate the growth of the mHealth market and improve the health of patients and populations. There are important barriers to such collaborations which we hope are explored and discussed further in this special issue. We hope to attract high quality contributions relating to the opportunities and challenges associated with stimulating academic-industry partnerships and creating evidence-based technology-based approaches to health behavior change. We acknowledge differences in the type of data that is collected by academics and industry professionals and aim to be a forum for both types of data, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of each. Traditional research reports are sought, but also case studies characterizing real world translation efforts, implementation challenges, and academic-industry partnerships are strongly encouraged. Additionally, synopses of practical tools and strategies, applications, and approaches are of interest. Selected manuscripts will be published together with commentaries in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Editors of the Special Section:
Sherry Pagoto, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Gary Bennett, PhD, Duke University

Editor-in-Chief:
Bonnie Spring, PhD, Northwestern University

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of School Psychology Forum: Technology and School Psychology

This issue will contain innovations and research in the use of technology in school psychology and education, in general. Examples include the value of computer-based test scoring, using social media in the practice of school psychology, approaches to intervening with cyber-bullying, and using technology for distance learning.

Guest Editor: Dr. Dan Florell

Deadline: May 20th, 2013
 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Media Psychology: The Role of Media in Health Communication

Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2012.

Guest Editors:
Dagmar Unz (Communication in Social and Economic Contexts, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)
Bettina Friedrich (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK)

The Journal of Media Psychology is calling for papers for a special issue about the role of media in health communication.

Media is a powerful tool to communicate knowledge and attitudes regarding diverse health issues, and can therefore impact on health behavior as well as understanding and appraisal of health issues. Media can be used to educate general and specific target audiences about health issues, link health workers to the public, connect people with similar health issues and persuade audiences to adopt new behaviors.

This special issue aims to enhance understanding of the role of media in health communication processes. A broad range of topics are welcome, although suggested topics should shed light on the role of media in health communication from a psychological perspective. A variety of media applications at a diversity of populations, technologies, content and contexts can and should be considered. Papers can explore how meanings about health issues are generated, investigate how health issues and coping with them are portrayed in different forms of media, explore how media use affects the physical, mental, or behavioral health, explore the ways in which diverse audiences engage with media and negotiate health issues. We invite papers in but not limited to the following areas:

media audiences and health communication
popular media and health images effects
using media campaigns for health promotion
using the Internet as a source of health information
using entertainment media / electronic games for health issues
using electronic games, as Wii or Kinect, for sports / physical well-being

Manuscript preparation and submission: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines (available on the journal’s website at http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/journal-of-media-psychology/). Papers should be clearly labelled as submissions intended for this special issue and must be submitted through the journal’s online manuscript management system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmp/).

All submissions will be anonymously reviewed, using the normal Journal of Media Psychology review criteria while also taking into account the contribution of the paper to understanding the role of media in health communication.

Deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2012

Informal enquiries on the special issue can be made to

Dagmar Unz (dagmar.unz(at)udk-berlin.de) or to the
Editorial Office (contact-jmp(at)uni-koeln.de).

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Patient-Centered E-Health

Guest Editors: Vance Wilson and Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Patient-Centered E-Health (PCEH) is an emerging discipline that would benefit from receiving much more research attention. As a starting point, we use Wilson’s (2009) definition of PCEH as the combination of three themes:

Patient-focus: PCEH applications are developed primarily based on needs and perspectives of patients.
Patient-activity: PCEH application designs assume that patients can participate meaningfully in providing and consuming information about, and of interest to, them.
Patient-empowerment: PCEH applications assume that patients want to, and are able to, control far-ranging aspects of their health care via a PCEH application.

Although e-health applications have become common, most applications focus on the needs of healthcare providers and organizations, rather than the e-health services that patients actually desire. This is not surprising because most Health IT and health and medical informatics research has necessarily started with the development and integration of electronic records and related systems, rather than delivering e-health to patients.

Our objectives in creating this special section are to explore, clarify, and expand the emerging PCEH field. We are soliciting papers from all research perspectives and disciplines and from all parts of the world.

Conventional research articles are welcome, as are submissions that support research and researchers, a key mission of the CAIS Information Systems and Healthcare Department (Wilson, 2004). We specifically invite submissions in the following areas.

Submissions of PCEH Research

Conceptual articles, including those that build on, critique, or replace the working definition of PCEH presented by Wilson (2009)
Review articles assessing the status or trajectory of PCEH research
Application of theories, methods, design principles, and/or practices of user-centered design and other relevant disciplines to the PCEH context
Qualitative and quantitative empirical studies of PCEH
Design research
Case studies
Teaching cases

Submissions Supporting PCEH Research and Researchers

Instrument development and adaptation of instruments to the PCEH context
Literature reviews and annotated bibliographies
Tutorials related to PCEH
Panel discussions related to PCEH
Timetable

Submit abstract for comment by June 30, 2012 (recommended but not required)
Submit paper by October 1, 2012
Reviews returned to authors by November 10, 2012
Revise and resubmit by January 7, 2013*
Final decisions by February 11, 2013*
Special section papers published during March 2013*

*Papers that are not revised and returned by January 7, 2013 or are not accepted for publication by February 11, 2013 will be invited to continue in the review process for publication within the Information Systems and Healthcare Department of CAIS.

Review Process: Papers will have two rounds of peer review by scholars with knowledge of, and interest in, e health. The first round will provide developmental guidance for improving those papers that show potential to be accepted for the special section. Final selections for the Special Section will be made from the second-round submissions.

Submission Instructions: Submissions to the special section will be handled outside the CAIS ScholarOne review system. All submissions should be delivered in MSWord format, following APA guidelines. Submit as an email attachment to vancewilson@gmail.com.

References

Wilson, E. V. (2004). Editorial statement: Information systems and healthcare department. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 13(27), 456-458
Wilson, E. V. (2009). Patient-Centered E-Health. Hershey, PA, IGI Publications