Introduction to the information technology in health care track

The information technology in health care track at HICSS serves as a forum at which health care, computer science, and information systems professionals can come together to discuss issues related to the application of information technology in health care. While the medical, technical, and managerial perspectives each contributes to particular aspects of the health care problems, the complexity of today´s problems requires more than one perspective. As a unique opportunity for cross-disciplinary interaction, we hope this track will give our conference participants and the readers of these proceedings new insights into the problems they face. This year we consolidate some of the smaller minitracks from previous years into larger minitracks. Our goal was to better integrate discussions of papers with different, but related topics. Thus, this year the track consists of four minitracks: 1. Consumer Health Informatics, Patient Safety and Quality of Practice; 2. Data and Knowledge Management in Health Care; 3. IS Adoption, Diffusion, Implementation, and Evaluation in Health Care; and 4. Process Integration and Evolution; The minitrack coordinators provide brief summaries of their minitracks and overviews of the papers in their sessions.