Wayne State University School of Business Administration

Joseph Tan

Professor of Information Systems Management

an9188@wayne.edu
(313) 577-9144

Academic Degrees

  • PhD (Business/Psychology) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,1989
  • MS (Industrial & Management Engineering/Ergonomics) University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1982
  • BA (Mathematics/Computer Science) Wartburg College, Waverly, IA, 1981

Teaching Interests

  • MIS Leadership Issues
  • Advanced Health Informatics

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interface
  • eHealth

Publications & Presentations

  • A Metric for Health Care Technology Management (HCTM): E-Surveying Key Executives and Administrators of Canadian Teaching Hospitals? (with Eisler, G. & Sheps, S.) International Journal of Health Information Systems & Informatics, 1(1): 1-21, January-March, 2006. Presented at 2002 International Conference on The Hospital of the Future in Chicago, Best Paper/Presentation Award.
  • Health Care and Services Delivery Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems (with Wen, J. & Awad, N.) Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48 (5): 36-44 (2005).
  • e-Health Information Systems: Introduction to Students & Professionals, San Francisco, CA:Jossey-Bass, May 2005.
  • Strategic IT Applications in Health Care (with Raghupathi) Communications of the ACM, 45(12): 56-61 (December 2002).
  • Selecting A Computerized Patient Information System: A Delphi Approach (with Chocolik, J., Bouchard, S., & Ostrow, D.) Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 6(3): 219-233 (May/Jun 1999).
  • Graduate Education in Health Decision Support Systems (HDSSs): Reconfiguring the Health Information System Basket or Putting HDSS Humpty Dumpty Together Again? The Journal of Health Administration Education, 16(4): 267-291 (1998).
  • A Model for Achieving A Total Quality Management Information Technology Infrastructure Within An Integrated Delivery System, Journal of Digital Imaging, 11(4) Suppl 2: 35-41 (1998). Presented at the 11th IEEE Symposium, Lubbock, Texas (June 1998)
  • Computerized Databases for Emergency Care: What Impacts on Patient Care? (with Pugh, G.) Methods of Information in Medicine, 33: 1423-1429 (1995). Presented at the 1992 meeting of IT Issues in Community Health, Victoria, BC.
  • The Effectiveness of Graphical Presentation for Information Extraction: A Cumulative Experimental Approach, (with Benbasat), Decision Sciences, 24(1): 167-191 (1993). Presented at IACIS conference and appeared in Betty A Kleen (ed.) IS and Technologies for the 1990's. International Association for Computer IS (IACIS), San Francisco: Ca. (1991): 147-154.
  • Processing of Graphical Information: A Decomposition Taxonomy to Match Data Extraction Tasks and Graphical Representation, (with Benbasat), Information Systems Research, 1(4): 416-439 (1990).

Professional Memberships

  • Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics, 2005-present
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Electronic Business Research, 2004-present
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2003-present
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mobile Commerce, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Member; Association for Information Systems (AIS), charter member, 2002-present
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Electronic Health, 2002-2005
  • Canadian College of Health Service Executives, Executive Member, 1998-2000;
  • Member of Leadership Research Project Advisory Committee, 2001-2002
  • Institute for Operations Research and management Sciences (INFORMS), VP,
  • Management of Health Technology (MHT) Section, 1997-2002
  • Association for Chinese Management Education (ACME), Ex-Board Member and conference coordinator, 1997-2003
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Management Theory and Practice, 1998-2002
  • Senior Guest Editor, Topics in Health Information Management, 1998 (Special Issues)
  • Editorial Board Member, Canadian Medical Informatics 1994-1997
    Associate Editor (Book Review Section), Canadian Medical Informatics, 1994-1997