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 Contents:
Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xix The Editor xxi The Contributors xxiii PART ONE: E-HEALTH OVERVIEW 1 1 E-Health: The Next Health Care Frontier 3 Joseph Tan The Telebaby Case 27 Ronald Spanjers, Anne F. Rutkowski 2 E-Health Vision: Drivers of and Barriers to E-Health Care 37 Joseph Tan Cyber-Angel: The E-Robin Hood Case 52 Joseph Tan, Joshia Tan PART TWO: E-HEALTH FOUNDATIONS 57 3 E-Health Perspectives: General Systems Concepts, Chaos and String Theories, and Social Science Thinking 59 Joseph Tan Multicommunity E-Health Promotion Programming Case 82 Joseph Tan 4 E-Health Records: The Lifeblood of E-Health Care 91 Joseph Tan E-Primary Health Care and E-Health Records Cases 116 Penny Grubb 5 E-Public Health Information Systems: E-Technologies for Public Health Preparedness and Surveillance 127 Joseph Tan, Francisco G. Soto Mas, C. Ed Hsu E-Profiling of Community Health Performance Indicators Case 155 Lee Kallenbach, Joseph Tan 6 E-Networking: The Backbone of E-Health Care 163 Joseph Tan, Winnie Cheng Mobile Health Networks Case: Unconfined Mobile Bluetooth Technology for E-Medical Services 190 Qiang Cheng, Huyu Qu, Yingge Wang, Joseph Tan PART THREE: E-HEALTH DOMAINS AND APPLICATIONS 201 7 E-Health Domains: Surveying the E-Health Landscape: Cases and Applications 203 Pam Forducey, Kawaljeet Kaur, Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, Joseph Tan E-Speech Therapy for Children in a Rural Oklahoma School Case 224 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 231 Joseph Tan, Mengistu Kifle, Victor Mbarika, Chitu Okoli E-Medicine Development in Taiwan Case 260 Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Chih-Ping Wei, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng, Joseph Tan 9 E-Home Care: Rejuvenating Home Health Care and Tele–Home Care 267 George Demiris, Joseph Tan The OliverHome Case 290 Joseph Tan, George Demiris, Joshia Tan 10 E-Diagnosis Support Systems: An E-DSS for Lower Back Pain 295 Lin Lin, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Joseph Tan Teleradiology Case: Present and Future 321 Yao Y. Shieh, Mason Shieh 11 E-Health Intelligence: A Multiple-Level Clustering Approach for E-Health Data Mining 330 Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Liang-Ming Kung, Joseph Tan E-Patient Image Retrieval Case: Incremental Neural Net Learning 352 Lin Lin, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Joseph Tan PART FOUR: E-HEALTH STRATEGIES AND IMPACTS 363 12 E-Health Strategies: Reshaping the Traditional Health Care System 365 H. Joseph Wen, Joseph Tan E-Health Technology Strategies and Impacts Case 396 Jung P. Shim, William E. Sorrells 13 E-Health Care Technology Management: A Multifactorial Model for Harnessing E-Technologies 406 George Eisler, Sam Sheps, Joseph Tan Evidence-Based Medicine Case 439 Barry P. Markovitz 14 E-Security: Frameworks for Privacy and Security in E-Health Data Integration and Aggregation 450 Joseph Tan, Patrick Hung Integrated Selective Encryption and Data Embedding for Medical Images Case 479 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 489 Joseph Tan, David C. Yen, Sharline Martin, Binshan Lin E-Communities Case: Scalability Challenges in Information Management 515 Harris Wu, Joseph Tan, Weiguo Fan PART FIVE: E-HEALTH PROSPECTS 521 16 E-Health Prospects: Mobile Health, Virtual Reality, and Consumer-Driven E-Health Systems 523 Joseph Tan Virtual Reality Case 547 Joseph Tan, Pency Tsai Name Index 554 Subject Index 562

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.