On November 26, 2023, the "2023 China Information Economics Society Academic Annual Meeting" was successfully held at Zhejiang University. The winners of the "2023 China Information Economics Society Innovation Achievement" were announced at the event. The research titled "Rural-Urban Healthcare Access Inequality Challenge: Transformative Roles of Information Technology" published in "MIS Quarterly" (UTD-24) by the team of Associate Professor Shi Yani from the School of Economics and Management at Southeast University was honored with the 2023 China Information Economics Society Innovation Achievement Award (Information Management category).
It is reported that the China Information Economics Innovation Achievement Award is established by the China Information Economics Society to commend the annual outstanding achievements in the fields of China's information economy and information management. This award has become one of the most academically influential awards in the fields of China's information economy and information management. The 2023 China Information Economics Society Innovation Achievement Awards were divided into two categories: information economy and information management, with each category selecting six winning papers. The winning papers all come from top domestic and international journals.
Introduction to the Winning Paper
The research by Associate Professor Shi Yani's team focuses on the challenge of accessibility differences in urban and rural healthcare services caused by the lack of medical resources. Addressing this complex social challenge, the important theoretical innovation of the achievement lies in: Starting from smart healthcare applications based on social transformation theory and technology affordance theory; it extracts various mechanisms and evolutionary paths through which smart healthcare applications can alleviate the differences in accessibility to urban and rural healthcare services, and deeply elaborates on the internal mechanisms by which medical information technology alleviates the uneven distribution of healthcare resources between urban and rural areas.
(Contributed by: Department of E-Commerce)
Translated by: Li Zhaoting
Reviewed by: Tang Feng
