Call for Papers: Experience Track
The purpose of the Experience Track is to establish a meaningful discourse between HIT practitioners and HIT researchers on the results (both good and bad, expected or unexpected), obstacles, and lessons learned coupled with building useful HIT solutions in various organizational environments, diverse health systems or different cultures. The Experience Track will provide descriptions of the application of HIT practices (which may be principles, projects, missions, techniques, tools, methods, processes, etc.) to a specific area in HIT or to the development of a significant and relevant HIT system.
Submissions should discuss experiences of benefit to researchers and practitioners. We invite original, unpublished submissions in two categories:
- Case studies describe the concept of or solution to one or more health IT problem(s) (e.g. hospital health record, health-ID, e-prescribing) in an organizational, regional or national setting, market or government driven. A case study provides a detailed description of how the problem was solved, which results have been achieved within the given environment, along with possible lessons learned for similar domains or problem spaces in other environments. In contrast to experience reports, case studies deal with special (often detailed) issues within HIT systems like components (health-card systems, connectors, public health-kiosks) or areas (usability, security, e-prescribing, tele-medicine).
- Experience reports of projects provide a critical review of experiences during one or more phases of an HIT development project, and draw lessons learned from that experience. A good experience report lists as completely as possible the factors that influenced those experiences and tells about the actual results as precisely as possible, so that the impact of those experiences on project success or failure can be understood. Experience reports may focus on problems run into during development along with discussions of what principles, techniques, methods, processes, or tools were used and whether they were sufficient for solving or taming the problem.
Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Transparency and clarity of the motivation for the report
- Soundness and accuracy of the report
- Relevance and significance of the lessons learned
- Quality, structure, and clarity of the text
A well-structured experience report will not only describe in detail the experiences encountered on an HIT project, but will include rationales for lessons learned.
Submissions must be complete. Papers may be up to twelve pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submission should be made electronically in .pdf format.
Contact
Experience Track Chair, experience.chair@ichit.org
Call for ICHIT Experience Reports