**Meet the editor**

Dr. Thomas F. Heston is a practicing physician and clinical associate professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane, Washington, USA. As a nuclear medicine resident in the early 1990s, he researched the application of neural networks in transplant medicine. He subsequently started the first nuclear medicine teleradiology network to rural northern Idaho and in the

process single handedly developed the picture archiving and communication system for the network. He then went on to study positron emission tomography at Johns Hopkins University. He became an assistant professor (adjunct) in their Department of Radiology and a medical director for Johns Hopkins International. His current research focus is on the application of blockchain technology to health care.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Thomas F. Heston

**they Mean" 9**

**Data Sets 37**

**Applications 51**

**Technology 71**

Sandeep Reddy

**Section 3 Applications 79**

Alexandre Serra Barreto

Chapter 4 **Moving towards Sustainable Electronic Health**

Chapter 5 **The Practice of Medicine in the Age of Information**

Mark Dominik Alscher and Nico Schmidt

Chapter 6 **Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Delivery 81**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Making Health Care Smart 3**

Chapter 2 **Terminology Services: Standard Terminologies to Control**

Chapter 3 **Multivariate-Stepwise Gaussian Classifier (MSGC): A New Classification Algorithm Tested Over Real Disease**

Sahr Wali, Karim Keshavjee and Catherine Demers

**Medical Vocabulary. "Words are Not What they Say but What**

Daniel Luna, Carlos Otero, María L. Gambarte and Julia Frangella

**Section 1 Introduction 1**

**Section 2 Fundamentals 7**

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Chapter 6 **Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Delivery 81** Sandeep Reddy

Chapter 7 **Phoebe Framework and Experimental Results for Estimating Fetal Age and Weight 99**

Loc Nguyen, Truong-Duyet Phan and Thu-Hang T. Ho

Chapter 8 **Using Patient Registries to Identify Triggers of Rare Diseases 125** Feras M. Ghazawi, Steven J. Glassman, Denis Sasseville and Ivan V. Litvinov

Preface

are truly revolutionary.

This first edition of *eHealth: Making Health Care Smarter* provides readers with an introduc‐ tion to the wide-ranging, important applications of mathematical algorithms and electronic technology to the improvement of health and the prevention of disease. The field of eHealth is so large that any textbook, no matter how comprehensive, will exclude important areas of this revolution in medicine. The chapters contained within this book provide the reader with insights into the focus of leading world scientists in the field of eHealth. As a practicing physician for over 25 years, I have witnessed medicine as it existed before the widespread growth of the Internet and smartphones. The improvements brought forward by eHealth

**Thomas F. Heston, MD, FAAFP, FASNC, FACNM**

Clinical Associate Professor Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Washington State University Spokane, Washington, USA


## Preface

Chapter 7 **Phoebe Framework and Experimental Results for Estimating**

Loc Nguyen, Truong-Duyet Phan and Thu-Hang T. Ho

Chapter 9 **Real-Time Tele-Auscultation Consultation Services over the**

Chapter 10 **Exploring the Interrelationship of Risk Factors for Supporting**

**eHealth Knowledge-Based System 159**

**Internet: Effects of the Internet Quality of Service 139** Sinchai Kamolphiwong, Thossapon Kamolphiwong, Soontorn

Feras M. Ghazawi, Steven J. Glassman, Denis Sasseville and Ivan V.

Chapter 8 **Using Patient Registries to Identify Triggers of Rare**

Saechow and Verapol Chandeeying

Geletaw Sahle Tegenaw

**Fetal Age and Weight 99**

**Diseases 125**

Litvinov

**VI** Contents

This first edition of *eHealth: Making Health Care Smarter* provides readers with an introduc‐ tion to the wide-ranging, important applications of mathematical algorithms and electronic technology to the improvement of health and the prevention of disease. The field of eHealth is so large that any textbook, no matter how comprehensive, will exclude important areas of this revolution in medicine. The chapters contained within this book provide the reader with insights into the focus of leading world scientists in the field of eHealth. As a practicing physician for over 25 years, I have witnessed medicine as it existed before the widespread growth of the Internet and smartphones. The improvements brought forward by eHealth are truly revolutionary.

#### **Thomas F. Heston, MD, FAAFP, FASNC, FACNM**

Clinical Associate Professor Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Washington State University Spokane, Washington, USA

**Section 1**

**Introduction**

**Section 1**
