Management of E-Health Networks for Disease Control: A Global Perspective

While network management has been intensively and thoroughly investigated in the past, research on and developments in the area of E-Business management is still evolving. E-Health, being one of the most significant and complex types of E-Business, offers some interesting scenarios from the perspective of layered management frameworks. This paper examines one aspect of E-Health, namely public health as illustrated from the viewpoint of pandemic control. We present a five-layered framework to address the management issues of e-health based on the example of a pandemic control system.