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Subject: [Sehc10-pc] CFP: Special Issue on eHealth Interoperability - Springer ISF

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CALL FOR PAPERS - INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS                                            
Special Issue on eHealth System Interoperability
http://simbioses.ca/ISF/
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/
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Guest editors
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Dr. Jens Weber-Jahnke, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, jens@uvic.ca
Dr. Liam Peyton, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada lpeyton@site.uottawa.ca
Dr. Thodoros Topaloglou, Rouge Valley Health System, ON, Canada thodoros@acm.org

Target audience
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This special issue wishes to reach researchers and practitioners in health care information systems, including academics in health information science, computer science, software engineering, management, technology policy, and IT workers and managers from the health care industry.

Topics
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to
* Methods, standards and tools to achieve eHealth interoperability
* Experience reports with interoperability methods, standards and tools
* Management issues and economics of interoperable eHealth systems
* Interoperability standards
* Engineering aspects of interoperable eHealth systems, including requirements analysis, design, construction, maintenance, and decommissioning
* Human aspects and education
* multi-jurisdictional policy development
* legal aspects
* health informatics as related to interoperability
We welcome a wide range of submissions, including research papers, surveys, tutorials and case studies of theoretical value and/or practical significance.

Schedule
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We plan two submission/review cycles in order to assure maximum paper quality.
* Abstract submission (recommended): authors are asked to submit title and abstract ahead of time to probe fit with the objective of the special issue: May 1, 2010
* Submission due date: July 1, 2010
* First round review completed: October 1, 2010
* Submission due date of revised papers: December 1, 2010ÿ
* Second round review completed: February 1, 2011
* Submission of final version of the paper: one month after notification of acceptance

Submission & Review
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The special issue will accept approximately eight articles of 7,000-8,000 words each. Papers, which have appeared previously in proceedings of conferences, may be submitted to this special issue if they are substantially revised, extended or improved from their earlier versions, due to copyright issues.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three qualified experts in a blind review process.
Submissions must be directly uploaded to Springer's Editorial Manager system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/
Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines of Information Systems Frontiers. Instructions for Contributors are available at http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796

Criteria and Evaluation for paper acceptance
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* Significance to the journal's audience
* Relevance to this special issue
* Quality of the paper including originality, technical depth, significance of results, adequacy of priori works referenced, overall organization, clarity and readability, satisfactory English writing, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract adequately summarizes the paper, introduction provides proper orientation, clear tables and figures.
* Overall reviewers recommendation on the paper