𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
European Journal of Information Systems

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿:
Taylor & Francis Group

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
30 November 2026

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

Digital health is transforming how healthcare value is created, shared, and experienced across increasingly complex ecosystems. With the rise of artificial intelligence, sensor-based technologies, smartphone applications, data platforms, and connected health infrastructures, healthcare practices are moving beyond hospitals into wider digital ecosystems involving providers, patients, families, caregivers, organizations, and laypersons.

This Special Issue focuses on the future of creating and distributing value in digital health ecosystems. It seeks to advance understanding of how digital technologies create different kinds of value, including financial, clinical, organizational, social, and personal value. At the same time, it asks how this value is distributed among ecosystem participants, across organizations, and over time.

The issue welcomes both cumulative and contrarian studies that challenge assumptions about data-driven healthcare innovation. Contributions may examine how digital health technologies create benefits, introduce risks, reshape professional roles, alter institutions, and influence the balance of value among stakeholders in healthcare ecosystems.

𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Data management and data sharing in digital health ecosystems
• Value creation and value distribution through digital health technologies
• Measuring value generated by XR, 5G, Web 3.0, machine learning, and hybrid learning in healthcare
• Digital health ecosystems during pandemics, natural disasters, and crisis situations
• Data-driven changes in professional roles, identities, and institutions
• Value creation for healthcare intervention versus prevention
• Inclusive and responsible design of digital technologies for healthcare and wellbeing
• Digital health data for connecting participants in healthcare service networks
• Digital tools supporting healthcare decision-making and organizational processes
• Negative consequences of healthcare digitalization, including burnout and patient anxiety
• Virtual coaching and digital tools for patient and provider autonomy
• Ethical, organizational, and governance challenges in digital health ecosystems
• Contrarian perspectives on digital health value creation and data-driven care

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

Digital health innovation is often associated with improved care, efficiency, personalization, and better health outcomes. However, creating value through digital health technologies does not automatically mean that value is fairly or effectively distributed among patients, clinicians, organizations, and society.

This Special Issue provides a timely platform to critically examine how digital health ecosystems operate, how data and technologies shape healthcare value, and how researchers can develop new perspectives on responsible, inclusive, and sustainable digital health transformation.

𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

Lauri Wessel
European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Email: wessel@europa-uni.de

Melanie Reuter-Oppermann
Maastricht University, Netherlands & 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

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Extended abstracts or declarations of interest must be submitted by 01 March 2026.
• Full paper submission deadline: 30 November 2026.
• Submissions may be discussed at a paper development workshop in the context of ECIS 2026 in Milan, Italy.
• First round decisions are expected by 31 March 2027.
• Revisions are due by 30 September 2027.
• Final decisions are expected by 31 May 2028.
• Authors should follow the European Journal of Information Systems submission guidelines.
• All manuscripts will undergo the journal’s peer-review process.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹

European Journal of Information Systems is a leading international journal publishing high-quality research on information systems, digital innovation, technology-enabled transformation, data governance, organizational change, and the societal impacts of digital technologies. The journal welcomes theoretically rigorous and practically relevant research that advances the field of information systems.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 — 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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