| TopDescriptionThe Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (AHISI) Book Series aims to provide a channel for international researchers to progress the field of study on technology and its implications on healthcare and health information systems. With the growing focus on healthcare and the importance of enhancing this industry to tend to the expanding population, the book series seeks to accelerate the awareness of technological advancements of health information systems and expand awareness and implementation. Driven by advancing technologies and their clinical applications, the emerging field of health information systems and informatics is still searching for coherent directing frameworks to advance health care and clinical practices and research. Conducting research in these areas is both promising and challenging due to a host of factors, including rapidly evolving technologies and their application complexity. At the same time, organizational issues, including technology adoption, diffusion and acceptance as well as cost benefits and cost effectiveness of advancing health information systems and informatics applications as innovative forms of investment in healthcare are gaining attention as well. AHISI addresses these concepts and critical issues. TopMissionThe Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (AHISI) Book Series aims to address concepts related to advancing technologies and their clinical applications. The series endeavors to expand research and make available high-quality publications that foster greater developments and achievements of healthcare information systems and applications. TopTopics CoveredAs the purpose of AHISI is to bring together experts in public health, health information systems, and medical informatics to establish a new paradigm for developing health information systems & informatics, topics covered will span a wide scope of applications. By taking a broad scope with a multidisciplinary approach to understanding health information systems & informatics and its implications on governmental policies, public and private sector industries, and the global economies, this book series promises to cumulate and integrate the theories, methodologies and best practices in health information systems & informatics. Topics of interest to the series include, but are not limited to, the following areas: IS in Healthcare
IT security and privacy issues
Medical informatics
Clinical decision support design, development and implementation
Management of emerging health care technologies
Role of informatics specialists
IT applications in health organizations and practices, measurements, and impact of HISI on public and social policy
Telemedicine
E-health and m-health
Virtual health technologies
Decision Support Systems
Nursing Expert Systems
Pharmaceutical and Home Healthcare Informatics
IT Applications in Physical Therapeutic Treatments
Rehabilitative Technologies TopEditorial Advisory BoardAdvances in Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (AHISI) Book SeriesEditor-in-Chief: Joseph Tan, Wayne State University, USA Associate Editors:
James G. Anderson, Purdue University, USA
Marc Basson, Wayne State University, USA
Anand Desai, Ohio State University, USA
Nancy Lorenzi, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Marion Sobol, Southern Methodist University, USAInternational Editorial Advisory Board:
Guisseppi Forgionne, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Alan R. Hevner, University of South Florida, USA
Chiehwen Ed Hsu, University of Maryland, USA
Paul Hu, University of Utah, USA
Paul Keown, University of British Columbia, Canada
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA
Dave Parry, land University of Technology, New Zealand
Robert Mockler, St. John's University, USA
Ken Redekop, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
H. Joseph Wen, Southeast Missouri State, USA
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Carla Wiggins, Idaho State University, USA
Daniel Dajun Zeng, University of Arizona, USA
Dan Zhu, Iowa State University, USA TopReleases|
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TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyJoseph Tan Joseph Tan (Dip, BA, MS, PhD) holds a professional diploma in civil engineering from Singapore Polytechnic, an undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science from Wartburg College, a master’s degree in industrial & management engineering from the University of Iowa and a PhD in management information systems from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has been a tenured associate professor teaching in the Department of Healthcare & Epidemiology at UBC for many years prior to serving as a professor and Head of Information System and Manufacturing (ISM) Department at the School of Business at Wayne State University.
Joseph has published research in computing, ergonomics, information systems, health informatics, health education, e-health and e-business journals and has served as guest editor and member of various journal editorial boards. He sits on key organizing committees for local, national and international meetings and conferences. Professor Tan’s research, which has enjoyed significant support in the last several years from local, national and international funding agencies and other sources, has also been widely cited and applied across a number of major disciplines, including healthcare 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.
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