"eHealth: Making Health Care Smarter" ed. by Thomas F. Heston

This volume is about what leaders in the field are doing to advance the use of electronic technology to improve global health.

eHealth has revolutionized health care and the practice of medicine. Internet technologies have given the most rural communities access to healthcare services, and automated computer algorithms are improving medical diagnoses and speeding up the delivery of care. Handheld apps, wearable devices, and artificial intelligence lead the way, creating a global healthcare solution that is smarter and more accessible.

Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Making Health Care Smart
2 Terminology Services: Standard Terminologies to Control Medical Vocabulary. "Words are Not What they Say but What they Mean"
3 Multivariate-Stepwise Gaussian Classifier (MSGC): A New Classification Algorithm Tested Over Real Disease Data Sets
4 Moving towards Sustainable Electronic Health Applications
5 The Practice of Medicine in the Age of Information Technology
6 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Delivery
7 Phoebe Framework and Experimental Results for Estimating Fetal Age and Weight
8 Using Patient Registries to Identify Triggers of Rare Diseases
9 Real-Time Tele-Auscultation Consultation Services over the Internet: Effects of the Internet Quality of Service
10 Exploring the Interrelationship of Risk Factors for Supporting eHealth Knowledge-Based System