Mining Health Informatics Job Advertisements: Insights for Higher Education Programs and Job Seekers

2023 | HICSS | Citations: 0

Authors: Elnoshokaty, A.; Al-Ramahi, M.; El-Gayar, O.; Wahbeh, A.; Nasralah, T.

Abstract: This paper used web scraping and data mining to analyze 831 health informatics ... Expand

Abstract: This paper used web scraping and data mining to analyze 831 health informatics job advertisements on indeed.com. Results showed that 87% of jobs explicitly required a college degree in a related field, 41% of jobs preferred a graduate degree, while 29% preferred or required professional certification. The analysis showed that preferred skills were analytics problem solving, communication skills, oral communication, interpersonal skills, project management, statistics, and critical thinking. The analysis also showed that college degrees, certifications, and the above-mentioned skill set are in high demand for working in the field of health informatics, especially in states with large populations and strong economies. Our results inform curriculum development of health informatics programs in higher education, which helps map knowledge units across the curricula to bridge the skills gap and meet employers' expectations. At the same time, the results help job seekers familiarize themselves with what employers seek in a successful candidate. Collapse

Topics: health information system Indeed.com online labor market problem solving structured query language

Methods: qualitative interview natural language processing machine learning literature study survey

Building Strategic Partnerships for Value Co-Creation: A Conceptual Framework for Digital Service Organizations

2023 | European Conference On Information Systems | Citations: 0

Authors: Elo, Jenny; Pekkala, Kaisa; Tuunanen, Tuure; Salo, Markus

Abstract: In today's competitive, fast-paced, and technology-driven markets, digital serv ... Expand

Abstract: In today's competitive, fast-paced, and technology-driven markets, digital service organizations are increasingly forming strategic partnerships to transform their businesses, accelerate innovation opportunities, and offer customers enhanced value. How these partnerships should be built to enable value co-creation and strengthen collaboration between the partner organizations has thus become an important question for research and practice. This research develops a conceptual framework to explain value co-creation in strategic digital service partnerships and identifies its key enablers. We contribute to the literature by expanding our understanding of how value co-creation between partner organizations occurs as a dynamic and continuous process and how it is influenced by various intraand inter-organizational factors from institutional, resource integration, and service exchange perspectives. In practice, our research can aid digital service organizations in assessing and building their current and future partnerships to co-create value and sustainable growth in their service ecosystem. Collapse

Topics: participatory design digital service legal context innovation management intellectual property

Methods: design methodology qualitative interview personal interview theory development qualitative coding

Theories: service-dominant logic

Managing Continuous Digital Service Innovation for Value Co-Creation

2023 | HICSS | Citations: 0

Authors: Elo, J.; Pekkala, K.; Tuunanen, T.

Abstract: Service organizations across various industries are increasingly implementing c ... Expand

Abstract: Service organizations across various industries are increasingly implementing continuous development methods and practices to transform their digital service innovation and development processes. Consequently, continuous digital service innovation (DSI) has become a way to react to today's dynamic markets by proposing value to customers quickly while maintaining service quality. However, little is known about how organizations can enable value co-creation (VCC) in their continuous DSI processes. We fill this gap in the literature by focusing on organizational-level continuous DSI processes. Based on findings from 23 industry informants from six Finnish digital service organizations, we present a preliminary framework depicting three integral and interdependent dimensions of managing continuous DSI for VCC within organizations: managing continuous operations, managing people, and managing resources. We argue that such management insights are crucial for both research and practice for realizing the VCC potential of continuous DSI for organizations. Collapse

Topics: business process innovation innovation management digital service video conference pandemic

Methods: qualitative interview qualitative coding case study theory development qualitative content analysis

Theories: service-dominant logic

A Competency Framework for Participatory Modeling

2023 | Group Decision and Negotiation | Citations: 0

Authors: Elsawah, Sondoss; Bakhanova, Elena; Hämäläinen, Raimo P.; Voinov, Alexey

Abstract: Participatory modeling (PM) is a craft that is often learned by training ‘on the ... Expand

Abstract: Participatory modeling (PM) is a craft that is often learned by training ‘on the job’ and mastered through years of practice. There is little explicit knowledge available on identifying and documenting the skills needed to perform PM. In the modeling literature, existing attempts to identify relevant competencies have focused on the specific technical skills required for specific technical model development. The other skills required to organize and conduct the stakeholder process seem to be more vaguely and poorly defined in this context. The situation is complicated by PM being an essentially transdisciplinary craft, with no single discipline or skill set to borrow ideas and recommendations from. In this paper, we aim to set the foundation for both the practice and capacity-building efforts for PM by identifying the relevant core competencies. Our inquiry into this topic starts with reviewing and compiling literature on competencies in problem-solving research areas related to PM (e.g., systems thinking, facilitated model building, operations research, and so forth). We augment our inquiry with results from a PM practitioners’ survey to learn how they perceive the importance of different competencies and how the scope of these competencies may vary across the various roles that participatory modellers play. As a result, we identified five core competency areas essential for PM: systems thinking, modeling, group facilitation, project management and leadership, and, more recently, designing and running virtual workshops and events. Collapse

Topics: project management problem solving internet technology decision making

Methods: survey operations research literature study conceptual modelling survey design

Theories: core competency theory

An Investigation of Why Low Code Platforms Provide Answers and New Challenges

2023 | HICSS | Citations: 3

Authors: Elshan, Edona; Dickhaut, Ernestine; Ebel, Philipp Alexander

Abstract: Although the idea of low code development is not new, the market for these often ... Expand

Abstract: Although the idea of low code development is not new, the market for these oftentimes platform-based development approaches is exponentially growing. Especially factors such as increasing affinity for technology development across all user groups, consumerization of development, and advancing digitalization are opening a new target group for the low code movement. The broad application possibilities of low code, as well as the benefits, are therefore getting more important for businesses. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), low code constitutes a promising avenue to survive and succeed in the rapidly changing world. However, a clear understanding regarding the application of this paradigm of software development in SMEs is still missing. To provide a coherent understanding of the phenomenon low code in SMEs, we review extant literature and conduct interviews, identifying potential application domains and conceptualizing the benefits and challenges of low code from a holistic perspective. Collapse

Topics: low code development platform video conference business process management IT job IT skill

Methods: qualitative interview personal interview

Leveraging Low Code Development of Smart Personal Assistants: An Integrated Design Approach with the SPADE Method

2023 | Journal of Management Information Systems | Citations: 1

Authors: Elshan, Edona; Ebel, Philipp; Söllner, Matthias; Leimeister, Jan Marco

Abstract: Smart personal assistants (SPAs), such as Alexa for example, promise individuali ... Expand

Abstract: Smart personal assistants (SPAs), such as Alexa for example, promise individualized user interactions owing to their varying interaction possibilities, knowledgeability, and human-like behaviors. To support the widespread adoption and use of SPAs, organizations such as Google or Amazon provide low code environments that support the development of SPAs (e.g., for Google Home or Amazon's Alexa). These so-called low code platforms enable domain experts (e.g., business users without programming skills or experience) to develop SPAs for their purposes. However, using these platforms alone does not guarantee a useful and good conversation with novel SPAs due to non-intuitive design choices. Following a design science research approach, we propose the Smart Personal Assistant for Domain Experts (SPADE) method to address the missing link. This method supports domain experts in the development and contextualization of sophisticated SPAs for various application scenarios and focuses especially on conversational and anthropomorphic design steps. Our proof of concept and proof of value results show that SPADE is useful for supporting domain experts to create effective SPAs in different domains beyond private set-ups. Collapse

Topics: conversational agent low code development platform smart home end user development software developer

Methods: qualitative interview design artifact design science usability testing qualitative content analysis

Shopping in a Virtual Reality: A Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) based Systematic Literature Review

2023 | International Conference on Business Informatics | Citations: 0

Authors: Elsholz, Sophia Patrizia; Korbel, Jakob Johannes; Zarnekow, Rüdiger

Abstract: The virtual reality (VR) technology has become increasingly relevant in recent ... Expand

Abstract: The virtual reality (VR) technology has become increasingly relevant in recent years due to the advantages that occur through the representation of the real within a virtual world. One promising application area of VR is virtual shopping, i.e., providing customers with the ability to visit virtual stores instead of purchasing products on 2D websites or brick-and-mortar stores. To gain insights into the opportunities of the technology in the realm of shopping, we emphasize and discuss the literature on the use of VR for shopping based on a systematic literature review, thereby deepening our understanding of virtual retail concepts and synthesizing the empirical evidence on the advantages of VR. For this purpose, we developed a Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) based framework to summarize the key findings. The results comprise suggestions for VR shopping applications as well as possible future research avenues. Collapse

Topics: virtual reality database system behavioral intention electronic commerce consumer behavior

Methods: literature study structured literature research experiment literature sample

Towards A Unified Utilitarian Ethics Framework for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

2023 | Americas Conference on Information Systems | Citations: 0

Authors: Emdad, Forhan Bin; Ho, Shuyuan; Ravuri, Benhur; Hussain, Shezin

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to elevate healthcare to a pinnacle by aiding ... Expand

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to elevate healthcare to a pinnacle by aiding clinical decision support. Overcoming the challenges related to the design of ethical AI will enable clinicians, physicians, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders to use and trust AI in healthcare settings. This study attempts to identify the major ethical principles influencing the utility performance of AI at different technological levels such as data access, algorithms, and systems through a thematic analysis. We observed that justice, privacy, bias, lack of regulations, risks, and interpretability are the most important principles to consider for ethical AI. This data-driven study has analyzed secondary survey data from the Pew Research Center (2020) of 36 AI experts to categorize the top ethical principles of AI design. To resolve the ethical issues identified by the meta-analysis and domain experts, we propose a new utilitarian ethics-based theoretical framework for designing ethical AI for the healthcare domain. Collapse

Topics: artificial intelligence privacy cloud computing

Methods: survey qualitative content analysis computational algorithm chatGPT meta analysis

Logic Multiplicity in Digital Business Models – An Institutional Logics Perspective

2023 | HICSS | Citations: 0

Authors: Engert, Simon; Hess, Thomas

Abstract: Digital business models (DBM) are built upon digital technologies with complexit ... Expand

Abstract: Digital business models (DBM) are built upon digital technologies with complexity-inducing characteristics, connecting multiple heterogeneous actors seeking to co-create value. Institutional logics coordinate and constrain actors’ value co-creation interactions. Multiple, competing institutional logics can co-exist and create barriers to value co-creation. However, we argue that business model research in the information systems (IS) discipline still assumes a homogeneous concept, overlooking the possibility of logic multiplicity within DBMs. We conceptually show why logic multiplicity should be acknowledged and derive three propositions introducing logic multiplicity to the structures and practices of DBMs. By assuming an institutional logics perspective, challenging the assumption of homogeneity, and introducing a logic multiplicity lens, we call for a return to the discipline’s sociotechnical roots. We thereby enable scholars to study the complex reality of digital business and aid practitioners in turning situations of multiplicity into opportunities. Collapse

Topics: participatory design digital business model digital business IS discipline health information system

Methods: design methodology literature study

Theories: boundary objects theory

Controversies' Roots in Digital Business Models—The Case of Academic Publishing

2023 | Americas Conference on Information Systems | Citations: 0

Authors: Engert, Simon

Abstract: Digital business models (DBMs) are built on digital technologies with complexit ... Expand

Abstract: Digital business models (DBMs) are built on digital technologies with complexity-inducing characteristics. Thus, they form ever-more complex (eco)systems as they connect heterogeneous actors for value cocreation and blur the boundaries of organizations, markets, and industries. The co-existence of actors' multiple logics in pluralistic settings has been associated with tensions and controversies. However, information systems (IS) research has ignored controversies' role in DBMs in settings of logic multiplicity. Drawing on the 'orders of worth' framework, we follow the controversies over DBMs in the academic publishing ecosystem. Building on our in-depth case study data, we develop a model highlighting three roots of controversies in sociotechnical DBMs. We add to the literature by furthering our understanding of controversies' role in DBMs and enriching the community's methodological toolbox in applying a theory from French pragmatic sociology to study pluralistic contexts. Collapse

Topics: participatory design open access innovation management recommender system digital business model

Methods: qualitative interview design methodology case study personal interview company material

Theories: sociological theory