The Future of Creating and Distributing Value in Digital Health Ecosystems

Call for Papers

Special Issue: The Future of Creating and Distributing Value in Digital Health Ecosystems

Journal: European Journal of Information Systems

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

About the Special Issue

The European Journal of Information Systems invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "The Future of Creating and Distributing Value in Digital Health Ecosystems."

The Special Issue explores how digital technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI), sensor-based technologies, smartphone applications, and data-driven healthcare platforms—are transforming healthcare delivery beyond traditional hospital settings into collaborative digital health ecosystems. As patients, healthcare providers, caregivers, policymakers, and technology developers increasingly interact through these ecosystems, understanding how digital technologies create, distribute, and sustain value has become a critical research priority.

The issue seeks contributions that examine not only how digital innovations generate value but also how that value is fairly distributed among ecosystem participants. It also welcomes contrarian perspectives that challenge dominant assumptions surrounding digital health, data governance, and technology-enabled healthcare.

Themes and Topics

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Digital health ecosystems and value creation

• Data management, governance, and data sharing in healthcare

• AI, machine learning, XR, Web 3.0, and emerging digital health technologies

• Digital transformation of healthcare organizations

• Digital health during pandemics and disaster management

• Inclusive, responsible, and ethical healthcare technologies

• Digital decision-support systems and healthcare process improvement

• Professional identity, institutional change, and healthcare innovation

• Healthcare burnout, patient anxiety, and unintended consequences of digital technologies

• Prevention versus intervention in digital health

• Virtual coaching and patient/provider autonomy

• Digital health data and ecosystem-wide value distribution

Submission Guidelines

• Extended Abstract / Declaration of Interest Deadline: 1 March 2026

• Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

• Extended abstracts will be considered for discussion during the ECIS 2026 Paper Development Workshop in Milan, Italy.

• Manuscripts should follow the European Journal of Information Systems author guidelines.

• Contributions from theoretical, empirical, qualitative, quantitative, and interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome.

Special Issue Editors

• Lauri Wessel, European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

• Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Maastricht University & ILS Mannheim gGmbH, Germany

• Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, University of Montpellier, France

• Hannes Rothe, Rhine-Ruhr Institute of Information Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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