Joseph Tan 
E-Health Care Information Systems 
An Introduction for Students and Professionals

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and e-health intelligence. E-Health Care Information Systems also covers strategies in e-health care technology management, e-security issues, and the impacts of e-technologies. In addition, this book reviews new and emerging technologies such as mobile health, virtual reality and nanotechnology, and harnessing the power of e-technologies for real-world applications.

Table of Content

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

The Editor.

The Contributors.

PART ONE: E-HEALTH OVERVIEW.

1. E-Health: The Next Health Care Frontier (Joseph Tan).

The Telebaby® Case (Ronald Spanjers, Anne F. Rutkowski).

2. E-Health Vision: Drivers of and Barriers to E-Health Care (Joseph Tan).

Cyber-Angel: The E-Robin Hood Case (Joseph Tan, Joshia Tan).

PART TWO: E-HEALTH FOUNDATIONS.

3. E-Health Perspectives: General Systems Concepts, Chaos and String Theories, and Social Science Thinking (Joseph Tan).

Multicommunity E-Health Promotion Programming Case (Joseph Tan).

4. E-Health Records: The Lifeblood of E-Health Care (Joseph Tan).

E-Primary Health Care and E-Health Records Cases (Penny Grubb).

5. E-Public Health Information Systems: E-Technologies for Public Health Preparedness and Surveillance (Joseph Tan, Francisco G. Soto Mas, C. Ed Hsu).

E-Profiling of Community Health Performance Indicators Case (Lee Kallenbach, Joseph Tan).

6. E-Networking: The Backbone of E-Health Care (Joseph Tan, Winnie Cheng).

Mobile Health Networks Case: Unconfined Mobile Bluetooth Technology for E-Medical Services (Qiang Cheng, Huyu Qu, Yingge Wang, Joseph Tan).

PART THREE: E-HEALTH DOMAINS AND APPLICATIONS.

7. E-Health Domains: Surveying the E-Health Landscape: Cases and Applications (Pam Forducey, Kawaljeet Kaur, Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, Joseph Tan).

E-Speech Therapy for Children in a Rural Oklahoma School Case (Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, Pam Forducey, Sharon S. Smeltzer, Avery Clouds, Bob Hodge, David Prouty).

8. Diffusion of E-Medicine: E-Medicine in Developed and Developing Countries (Joseph Tan, Mengistu Kifle, Victor Mbarika, Chitu Okoli).

E-Medicine Development in Taiwan Case (Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Chih-Ping Wei, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng, Joseph Tan).

9. E-Home Care: Rejuvenating Home Health Care and Tele-Home Care (George Demiris, Joseph Tan).

The Oliver Home Case (Joseph Tan, George Demiris, Joshia Tan).

10. E-Diagnosis Support Systems: An E-DSS for Lower Back Pain (Lin Lin, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Joseph Tan).

Teleradiology Case: Present and Future (Yao Y. Shieh, Mason Shieh).

11. E-Health Intelligence: A Multiple-Level Clustering Approach for E-Health Data Mining (Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Liang-Ming Kung, Joseph Tan).

E-Patient Image Retrieval Case: Incremental Neural Net Learning (Lin Lin, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Joseph Tan).

PART FOUR: E-HEALTH STRATEGIES AND IMPACTS.

12. E-Health Strategies: Reshaping the Traditional Health Care System (H. Joseph Wen, Joseph Tan).

E-Health Technology Strategies and Impacts Case (Jung P. Shim, William E. Sorrells).

13 .E-Health Care Technology Management: A Multifactorial Model for Harnessing E-Technologies (George Eisler, Sam Sheps, Joseph Tan).

Evidence-Based Medicine Case (Barry P. Markovitz).

14. E-Security: Frameworks for Privacy and Security in E-Health Data Integration and Aggregation (Joseph Tan, Patrick Hung).

Integrated Selective Encryption and Data Embedding for Medical Images Case (Qiang Cheng, Yingge Wang, Joseph Tan).

15. E-Health Impacts on the Health Care and Health Services Industry: Surfing the Powerful Waves of E-Technologies (Joseph Tan, David C. Yen, Sharline Martin, Binshan Lin).

E-Communities Case: Scalability Challenges in Information Management (Harris Wu, Joseph Tan, Weiguo Fan).

PART FIVE: E-HEALTH PROSPECTS.

16. E-Health Prospects: Mobile Health, Virtual Reality, and Consumer-Driven E-Health Systems (Joseph Tan).

Virtual Reality Case (Joseph Tan, Pency Tsai).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

About the author

Joseph Tan, Ph.D., currently on leave from the University of
British Columbia, is professor and head of the Information System
and Manufacturing Department at Wayne State University. He serves
as guest editor and editorial board member for various journals and
sits on key organizing committees for local, national, and
international meetings and conferences. Tan’s
research–which has enjoyed significant support from local,
national, and international funding agencies and other
sources–has been widely cited and applied across a number of
major disciplines, including health care informatics and clinical
decision support, health technology management research, human
processing of graphical representations, ergonomics, health
administration education, telehealth, mobile health, and e-health
promotion programming.