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Chapter 6
An Integrated System for
E-Medicine (E-Health,
Telemedicine and Medical
Expert Systems)
Ivan Chorbev
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia
Boban Joksimoski
European University, Republic of Macedonia
INTROdUcTION
E-medicine can be viewed as a symbiosis between
medicine, informatics and telecommunication
technologies. Basically, e-medicine incorporates
the use of computer technologies, multimedia
systems and global networking in the provision of
medical services. It is an area of great scientific and
research interest, followed by fast implementation
of novel commercial functionalities. A common
simple definition describes e-medicine as the use of
multimedia technologies like text, pictures, speech
and/or video for performing medical activities.
The goal of our research is to define a prototype
of an integrated system for e-medicine that enables
ABsTRAcT
This chapter presents an overview of an integrated system for eMedicine that the authors propose and
implement in the Republic of Macedonia. The system contains advanced medical information systems,
various telemedicine services supported by modern telecommunication technologies, and decision sup-
port modules. The authors describe their telemedicine services that use wireless broadband technologies
(WiMAX, 3G, Wi-Fi). A signifcant part of the chapter presents a web based medical expert system that
performs self training using a heuristic rule induction algorithm. The data inserted by medical personnel
while using the e-medicine system is subsequently used for additional learning. The system is trained
using a hybrid heuristic algorithm for induction of classifcation rules that we developed. The SA Tabu
Miner algorithm (Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search based Data Miner) is inspired by both research
on heuristic optimization algorithms and rule induction data mining concepts and principles.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-777-0.ch006