Digital healthcare innovation and health information systems
Track 12
Track chairs
Samir Chatterjee
Claremont Graduate University
Denis Dennehy
Swansea University
Huanhuan Xiong
University College Cork
Track description
Healthcare encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of illness while promoting physical and mental well-being. The integration of AI, analytics, and telehealth platforms are transforming the traditional reactive healthcare model into a proactive, data-driven system for enabling algorithmic decision-making, faster diagnostics, personalised treatment and continuous patient monitoring
With increased investment in digital healthcare innovation and health information systems, policy agencies, healthcare professionals and service provider are focusing on the cost-effectiveness of care, better patient engagement, and improved quality outcomes. However, as healthcare continues to digitalise, it brings challenges such as data privacy and ethical concerns, and the responsible design of AI-based systems. Adopting a socio-technical perspective is vital to ensure that technological advancement breaks down digital borders in healthcare, by removing geographical, technological, and administrative barriers that prevent seamless access to healthcare, patient data, and health information.
This track invites submissions that advance our understanding of the multifaceted role digital healthcare innovation and health information systems play to create a more equitable, accessible, and efficient global health ecosystem. We welcome a diverse range of methodological approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, business analytics, conceptual, and design science research, offering insights from multiple perspectives within the healthcare IS domain. Kindly note that submissions not related to IS will be desk rejected.
In addition to the information provided in the author bios below, our collective history with previous ECIS conferences or other AIS conferences includes Track Chair (ECIS, ICIS, AMCIS, DESRIST), AE roles, reviewing manuscripts, author presentations, keynote lecture (ICIS SIG events), participation at the ECIS Doctoral Consortium, and recipient of the AIS Impact Award.
This track builds on long-standing conversations within the ECIS and AIS communities on digital innovation, information systems value creation, and socio-technical challenges in healthcare research. This track continues and extends these discussions by explicitly integrating recent technological developments such as generative and agentic AI systems, while strengthening the focus on governance, ethics, and real-world impact. It also connects to prior AIS conference streams that have addressed health informatics, digital platforms, and AI-enabled decision support systems, while simultaneously facing challenges related to trust, safety, regulation, cybersecurity, and equitable access.
This track aligns with the ECIS 2027 conference theme of “Bridging Digital Borders” by emphasising the interplay between technology, organisations, and individuals to create a seamless, secure, and interoperable system for sharing health data across national borders to improve patient safety, continuity of care, and medical research. From a practice-perspective, the track aligns with the European Health Data Space (EHDS Regulation) to ensure EU citizens can access and control their health data while enabling its secondary use.
We anticipate 30-40 high-quality submissions to this track. Accepted papers are expected to include a mix of empirical, design science, qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual contributions.
Topics of interest
- Cross-border electronic health record (EHR) data sharing and interoperability within the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation – the first EU-wide legal framework governing both the primary and secondary use and exchange of electronic health data across the European Union.
- Digital health platforms and their impact on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
- Digital healthcare innovation in low-resource settings and their measurable impact on accessibility, and capacity building.
- Adoption, diffusion, and assimilation of health information systems within healthcare institutions and beyond.
- Wearable health technologies for remote monitoring and their health outcomes.
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of remote monitoring and diagnostic systems in non-clinical and home-based environments.
- Integration and impact of telehealth and mobile health applications in clinical and community settings.
- Healthcare analytics and their impact on care coordination, and data-driven decision-making.
- Regulatory frameworks and governance for ethical and trustworthy digital health innovation.
- Cybersecurity and risk management for the security and resilience of healthcare data and systems.
- Trust, privacy concerns and personal health record (PHR) engagement and patient empowerment.
- Digital health equity and inclusive access to healthcare technologies and services.
- Augmented reality (AR) applications for clinical training, surgical support, and patient care enhancement.
- Health Information Systems applications for trust, transparency, and traceability in healthcare supply chains and data exchange.
- The future of healthcare and clinical work practice in the age of human-AI collaboration.
Associate editors
John O’Donoghue
University College Cork
Dan Rees
Swansea University
Oteng Ntsweng
Arizona State University
Derjung Mimi Tarn
UCLA
Elizabeth Baker
Virginia Commonwealth University
Johanna Habib
Aix-Marseille University
Rebekah Eden
Queensland University of Technology
Ruairi O’Reilly
Munster Technological University
Richard Harris
University College Cork
Kayode Philip Fadahunsi
Imperial College London
Joseph Gallagher
University College Dublin
Yao Xie
University College Dublin
Arin Brahma
Loyola Marymount University
Bengisu Tulu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Geir Inge Hausvik
University of Agder
Ransome Bawack
Audencia Business School
Rana Nripendra
Queen’s Business School
Tamilla Triantoro
Quinnipiac University
Pavankumar Mulgund
The University of Memphis
Yubo Fu
California State University at San Marcos
Benjamin Schooley
Brigham Young University
Nagla Alnosayan
Claremont Graduate University
Mousa Albashrawi
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Yogesh Bhatt
Graphic Era Deemed to be University
Eva Turk
University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
