CONTENTS

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 OliverHome 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 Ed-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