PART FOUR

E-HEALTH STRATEGIES AND IMPACTS

Part Three highlighted how various e-health domains and applications are interrelated, with a focus on e-medicine and associated processes (for example, e-diagnosis). Part Four shows how the management of e-health affects the health care and health services industry. Chapter Twelve provides a comprehensive review of e-health strategies and applies e-business models and e-marketing concepts to e-health services. Chapter Thirteen focuses on e-health care technology management, covering the benefits and challenges of e-surveying health administrators and executive team members in order to generate a management perspective and measure success factors in e-health care technology management. Chapter Fourteen reflects the concern that all e-health stakeholders share in regard to the privacy and security issues involved in e-health data integration and aggregation. Chapter Fifteen articulates the positive impacts of e-technologies in many areas of the health care and health services sector. Chapter Fifteen also discusses the stages of e-health evolution and the future of e-technologies in the health care industry.