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As co-chairs of a mini-track to explore global models of Virtual Hospitals in HICSS ’58 conference, taking place from January 7 – 10, 2025 in Hawaii Big Island at the Hilton Waikoloa Village (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/), we would like to invite you to submit an abstract on this topic, and engage an international group of like-minded colleagues to explore the different dimensions of this conceptual model which is rapidly attracting attention globally.

Title of mini-track: “Applying Digital Technologies and AI in Virtual Hospitals: Exploring Global Innovative Models” (full mini-track description:  https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-58/minitrack)
The key deadline for Paper submission: June 15th, 2024
For full information on submission, click the following:  https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Health systems globally are experiencing challenges, and many are turning to new models of acute care to deliver necessary services to improve equity of access to high quality care. Innovative solutions using health technologies and data sciences offer opportunities to address emergency departments (ED) and hospital overcrowding through virtual hospital models, for example: virtual triaging and ED, virtual beds to treat patients at home (Hospital at Home), post-admission discharges using remote patient monitoring to support convalescence. Virtual hospitals can deliver safe and cost-effective care to reduce unnecessary ED visits, reduce hospitalization and treat acutely ill patients in the comfort of their own homes. This minitrack is to showcase and explore different virtual hospital models being designed, tested, evaluated, and implemented in various health systems in different countries, identifying their strengths, challenges, and future directions. We endeavour to understand why and how virtual hospitals function in these contexts, common success factors, and contextual variations and differences to promote knowledge exchange and establish good practices of virtual hospitals through this global exchange.

We are inviting you to consider submitting a paper to this mini-track due to the work that you are advancing in this field of virtual hospital.  We are hoping to have a strong collection of papers globally and explore this subject together in person at this conference to help each other to advance this work, and find potential synergistic research and implementation opportunities together. We will also explore opportunities to co-publish our papers together and build academic evidence and momentum to advance this work. After the submission process, we are considering proposing the series of papers to a medical journal for consideration as a special issue also.