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.

• Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xiPreface xvAcknowledgments xixThe Editor xxiThe Contributors xxiiiPART ONE: E-HEALTH OVERVIEW 11 E-Health: The Next Health Care Frontier 3Joseph TanThe Telebaby Case 27Ronald Spanjers, Anne F. Rutkowski2 E-Health Vision: Drivers of and Barriers to E-Health Care 37Joseph TanCyber-Angel: The E-Robin Hood Case 52Joseph Tan, Joshia TanPART TWO: E-HEALTH FOUNDATIONS 573 E-Health Perspectives: General Systems Concepts, Chaos and String Theories, and Social Science Thinking 59Joseph TanMulticommunity E-Health Promotion Programming Case 82Joseph Tan4 E-Health Records: The Lifeblood of E-Health Care 91Joseph TanE-Primary Health Care and E-Health Records Cases 116Penny Grubb5 E-Public Health Information Systems: E-Technologies for Public Health Preparedness and Surveillance 127Joseph Tan, Francisco G. Soto Mas, C. Ed HsuE-Profiling of Community Health Performance Indicators Case 155Lee Kallenbach, Joseph Tan6 E-Networking: The Backbone of E-Health Care 163Joseph Tan, Winnie ChengMobile Health Networks Case: Unconfined Mobile Bluetooth Technology for E-Medical Services 190Qiang Cheng, Huyu Qu, Yingge Wang, Joseph TanPART THREE: E-HEALTH DOMAINS AND APPLICATIONS 2017 E-Health Domains: Surveying the E-Health Landscape: Cases and Applications 203Pam Forducey, Kawaljeet Kaur, Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, Joseph TanE-Speech Therapy for Children in a Rural Oklahoma School Case 224Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, Pam Forducey, Sharon S. Smeltzer, Avery Clouds, Bob Hodge, David Prouty8 Diffusion of E-Medicine: E-Medicine in Developed and Developing Countries 231Joseph Tan, Mengistu Kifle, Victor Mbarika, Chitu OkoliE-Medicine Development in Taiwan Case 260Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Chih-Ping Wei, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng, Joseph Tan9 E-Home Care: Rejuvenating Home Health Care and Tele–Home Care 267George Demiris, Joseph TanThe OliverHome Case 290Joseph Tan, George Demiris, Joshia Tan10 E-Diagnosis Support Systems: An E-DSS for Lower Back Pain 295Lin Lin, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Joseph TanTeleradiology Case: Present and Future 321Yao Y. Shieh, Mason Shieh11 E-Health Intelligence: A Multiple-Level Clustering Approach for E-Health Data Mining 330Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Liang-Ming Kung, Joseph TanE-Patient Image Retrieval Case: Incremental Neural Net Learning 352Lin Lin, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Chih-Ping Wei, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Joseph TanPART FOUR: E-HEALTH STRATEGIES AND IMPACTS 36312 E-Health Strategies: Reshaping the Traditional Health Care System 365H. Joseph Wen, Joseph TanE-Health Technology Strategies and Impacts Case 396Jung P. Shim, William E. Sorrells13 E-Health Care Technology Management: A Multifactorial Model for Harnessing E-Technologies 406George Eisler, Sam Sheps, Joseph TanEvidence-Based Medicine Case 439Barry P. Markovitz14 E-Security: Frameworks for Privacy and Security in E-Health Data Integration and Aggregation 450Joseph Tan, Patrick HungIntegrated Selective Encryption and Data Embedding for Medical Images Case 479Qiang Cheng, Yingge Wang, Joseph Tan15 E-Health Impacts on the Health Care and Health Services Industry: Surfing the Powerful Waves of E-Technologies 489Joseph Tan, David C. Yen, Sharline Martin, Binshan LinE-Communities Case: Scalability Challenges in Information Management 515Harris Wu, Joseph Tan, Weiguo FanPART FIVE: E-HEALTH PROSPECTS 52116 E-Health Prospects: Mobile Health, Virtual Reality, and Consumer-Driven E-Health Systems 523Joseph TanVirtual Reality Case 547Joseph Tan, Pency TsaiName Index 554Subject Index 562