Main description:

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.

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