CfP: Focus Theme Section on "Mobile Health" - Deadline October 1, 2010

Guest Editors:

• Doug Vogel (City University of Hong Kong)
• Dennis Viehland (Massey University, New Zealand)
• Nilmini Wickramasinghe (RMIT University, Australia)
• Joseph Mula (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

Theme:
Mobile devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, smartphones, wireless laptops) and wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, RFID, NFC) are now commonplace and support a rapidly growing set of applications.  The topic of Mobile Health (mHealth) seeks to capture the dynamics of using mobile devices for various aspects of health.  This includes access to government resources as well as social networking.  Interactions within as well as between organizations, institutions, individuals and interested parties are all relevant.  Societal as well as personal impacts are in force and paramount to wide-ranging appeal.  Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Mobile solutions for delivery of superior healthcare
• Management of information and knowledge in healthcare systems using mobile devices and wireless technologies
• Designing systems and processes to incorporate mHealth solutions
• Emergency and disaster relief systems that utilize mHealth solutions
• Evaluation and assessment of mHealth solutions
• The role of regulations on the diffusion of e-knowledge in healthcare using mobile devices
• Mobile techniques and tools that facilitate e-knowledge initiatives
• Mobile user interface requirements analysis and standardisation in a healthcare context
• Business models for mobile services in mHealth
• Convenience versus security in mHealth systems
• Implications for social change from widespread deployment of mHealth
• mParticipation: mobile interaction with public health institutions
• Mobile knowledge worker innovations in healthcare
• Usability implications for design of mHealth systems
• Mobile service platforms for healthcare
• Healthcare in the home that utilizes mobile devices or wireless networks
• Promotion of good health and illness prevention by mobile solutions
• Adaptation of healthcare delivery and practice to enable and facilitate more mHealth initiatives

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards.
Methodological and theoretical pluralism (e.g., empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes) is welcomed by the journal.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.

Contact addresses:
 isdoug@cityu.edu.hk
 D.Viehland@massey.ac.nz
 nilmini.work@gmail.com
 Joseph.Mula@usq.edu.au
 or editors@electronicmarkets.org

All papers should be original, not published elsewhere. Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:

• Submission Deadline: October 1, 2010
• Feedback to authors: November 24, 2010
• Revision deadline: December 15, 2010
• Acceptance decision: January 19, 2011