Edgar S Huang

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Based on a convenience sample of 2,092 participants from across all 50 states of the United States, a survey was conducted to explore Americans' mask-wearing behaviors during COVID-19 according to their political convictions, religious beliefs, and ethnic cultures from late July to early September, 2020. The purpose of the study is to provide evide...

This study examined U.S. hospital websites to find out how they have used interactive tools to engage and serve their patients. The findings and recommendations from this study will provide guidance to the development of the U.S. hospitals and even beyond for at least the next decade. A content analysis was conducted to compare The Most Wired Hospi...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a major subtype of diabetes and is usually diagnosed at a young age with insulin deficiency. The life expectancy of T1DM patients has increased substantially in comparison with that three decades ago due to the availability of exogenous insulin, though it is still shorter than that of healthy people. However, the...

Objective: We investigated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as a risk factor for brain atrophy and glucose hypometabolism in older adults with or at risk of cognitive impairment. Methods: Participants with the T2DM were identified from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI-1/GO/2 cohorts). Analysis of covariance models were used t...

With the rapidly expanding evidence on brain structural and functional changes in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, there is an increasing need to update our understanding on how T2DM associates with dementia as well as the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. A literature search of T2DM and dementia or cognition impairments was carrie...

Background Diabetic nephropathy has a high cardiovascular risk with a low-level HDL(high density lipoprotein) in epidemiologic studies. Glycated HDL in diabetes can diminish the capacity to stimulate endothelial cell migration, but the mechanism has not been adequately explored in diabetic nephropathy. We performed this study to find out whether HD...

This study aims to find out how Chinese hospitals have used online videos as marketing and patient education tools. The findings from this study can help Chinese hospital administrators better understand how to best take advantage of the up-to-date online video delivery technology to conduct contemporary marketing and efficiently help their patient...

Based on a census of the 2015 Most Wired Hospitals, this content analysis aimed to find out how patient education has been integrated on these best IT hospitals' Web sites to serve the purposes of marketing and meeting online visitors' needs. This study will help hospitals to understand where the weaknesses are in their interactive patient educatio...

This user study aims to find out what Chinese patients want most from their hospitals’ Web sites. With the Delphi technique, two online survey questionnaires were designed to collect data from 183 qualified participants, as a purposive sample, recruited through the snowball sampling method. The study has found that what these Chinese patients need...

In this case study, based on six criteria, four Chinese hospitals were chosen from a national sample to showcase, through content analysis and in-depth interviews, the best practices of serving patients online. The extensive findings have addressed the following three questions: what these hospitals have in common in their Web development, what pro...

This study aims to find out how Chinese hospitals have used online videos as marketing and patient education tools. The findings from this study can help Chinese hospital administrators better under-stand how to best take advantage of the up-to-date online video delivery technology to conduct contemporary marketing and efficiently help their patien...

This study has investigated how Chinese hospitals have embraced e-health as reflected in the adoption of interactive e-health tools on their websites. The literature review shows that this is the first serious study regarding the implementation of e-health in China. A content analysis was conducted based on a systematic probability sample drawn fro...

Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, this research has examined three best-practice hospitals in terms of their approaches to implementing interactive e-health tools on their Web sites. The study has demonstrated hospital administrations’ visions of and insights into developing e-health. It concludes that the implementation of interactiv...

International medical graduates (IMGs) comprise 26% of the U.S. physician work force. While IMGs bring all their knowledge and expertise, their pronunciation and intonation patterns often become a barrier in their ability to be understood. This breakdown in communication can affect physician-patient or physician-staff understanding and hence patien...

Based on a systematical probability national sample of US hospitals that have taken advantage of YouTube™ videos, this study has investigated, with the content analysis approach, how hospitals have used YouTube™ videos to market themselves and to connect to users. The study has found that, though hospitals have not implemented YouTube™ videos as a...

International medical graduates (IMGs) comprise 26% of the U.S. physician work force. While IMGs bring all their knowledge and expertise, their pronunciation and intonation patterns often become a barrier in their ability to be understood. This breakdown in communication can affect physician-patient or physician-staff understanding and hence patien...

Although healthcare professionals have done much to take advantage of social media for healthcare purposes, few empirical studies have investigated such practices. It is not known whether hospitals are using social media mainly as a marketing tool or as a way to friend, listen to, and interact with their visitors. Through a content analysis of 23,3...

The purpose of this study is to provide evidence for strategic planning regarding e-health development in U.S. hospitals. A content analysis of a representative sample of the U.S. hospital Web sites has revealed how U.S. hospitals have taken advantage of the 21 patient-oriented interactive tools identified in this study. Significant gaps between va...

Purpose Healthcare is becoming an important part of people's online content consumption, with people searching for information on diseases or medical problems, treatments or procedures, particular doctors or hospitals, or about parking. This paper aims to investigate what users deem essential on patient‐oriented interactive e‐health tools on hospit...

Purpose While hospitals have done much over the last five years to push new media marketing, little research has been done to find out whether such endeavors are justified by users' healthcare online information consumption. This study attempts to find evidence for or against such endeavors. Design/methodology/approach Using the Delphi technique,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the adoption of videos on US hospital web sites in an attempt to find out how this new medium had been used by hospitals for marketing purposes. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic probability sample of the 6,456 US hospital web sites, a content analysis is conducted to measure the effe...

Using content analysis and survey, this study examines how the teaching of thinking skills and that of technological skills have been balanced in US new media programs to produce both employable graduates and life-long learners. Findings show that most programs have balanced the two skill sets but that more effort should be made to integrate the te...

Based on the uses and gratifications theory and the Delphi technique, this study did an in-depth investigation among 28 college and high school students on youths' rationales behind their news consumption behavior. The study concludes that, in years to come, the news industry needs to realize a true convergence online by providing to the younger ge...

While more and more hospitals are getting on the Web 2.0 bandwagon for marketing, e-health videos as a marketing tool on hospital Web sites have been largely ignored. This study examines six hospital Web sites selected from more than two thousand U.S. hospital Web sites based on their uniqueness. The case study aims to find out why and how these ho...

This comparison shows top media sites in top markets have adopted rich media at a high rate. Yet, the overall sample shows newspapers lag behind television in some smaller markets.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has made ripping Macrovision- or CSSprotected DVDs illegal, but university instructors and students need accessible videos in a digital format for pedagogical purposes. This legal analysis has compared the DMCA with the TEACH Act and the fair use doctrine in the Copyright Act in an attempt to find a viabl...

This study has provided empirical evidence that will help journalism educators make informed decisions about how to teach media convergence in their curricula and courses. A national survey was conducted among college professors, news professionals, and news editors. The study found strong support for training generalists and teaching new technolog...

This article examines some top concerns in the media industry brought up by media convergence including the need to update news staff, production quality, compensation for multi-platform productions and the legitimacy of media convergence. An online national survey was conducted both among merged and non-merged daily newspapers and commercial TV st...

A content analysis, coupled with an in-depth interview, was done in this case study on The Tampa Tribune, a component of The News Center in Tampa, in an attempt to answer the question whether converged journalism has jeopardised journalistic quality. After comparing the quality factors shown in the Tribune stories before, at the beginning of, and t...

With the advent of online dailies, the role of news photography is undergoing fundamental changes. Many online dailies use small photos, use as few photos as possible, or use no photos at all. Can news photos attract reader attention to online newspapers as they do in print newspapers? Do readers expect photos online? This study provides guidance o...

At the beginning of the millennium, almost all of the images that we see in our daily newspapers and news magazines are digitized. However, no scholars have asked readers what they think about the appropriateness of digitally altering images. The purpose of this study is to examine how much readers trust digital images used in documentary contexts...

With the advent of Internet technology, scholars have begun to examine the role this new communication technology can play as a mass medium in promoting democracy in Third World countries. This paper did a case study by examining the impact of diffusion of Internet technology on the democratic development in China at grassroots level. Using a combi...

Based on the uses and gratifications theory and the Delphi technique, this study did an in-depth investigation among,28 college and high school students on youths’ rationales behind their news consumption behavior. The study concludes that, in years to come, the news industry needs to realize a