Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates the diverse state-of-the-art applications that combine artificial intelligence with soft computing, which has great potential for creating smart personalized healthcare services. The book showcases the myriad uses of AI and computer techniques in healthcare that employ deep learning, robotics, machine learning, blockchain, emerging cloud, edge computing, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus, CNN architecture, Splunk, genetic algorithms (GA), DurBhashan, and many more. These technologies can be used in healthcare for enhanced data sharing, remote health monitoring, tele-rehabilitation, connecting rural populations with healthcare services, identifying diseases and health issues, automated medical diagnosis, analyzing information in surgical videos, ensuring timely communication and transportation during health disasters and emergencies, for optimizing expenditures, and more.