Patient Care Management Using A Multi-Agent Approach

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

10-2000

Abstract

Patient management and medical decision making involves collaboration between a number of health professionals such as nurses, laboratory analysts, general practitioners, specialist consultants and the patients. This is particularly true for chronic diseases where the follow up takes place over a long period of time involving a number of people. We present our ongoing research effort in the application of multi-agent systems to support patient care management through effective collaboration between health professionals. We present a conceptual model of our approach and then describe a prototype system for diabetic patient care management that has been implemented using the Java Agent Development Environment (JADE)

Keywords

JADE, Java Agent Development Environment, chronic diseases, diabetic patient care management, health professional collaboration, medical decision making, multi-agent systems, prototype system

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software Systems

Publication

IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics

First Page

564

Last Page

567

Identifier

10.1109/ICSMC.2000.886373

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Nashville, USA

Comments

ISBN: 0-7803-6584-4, Pages 564 - 567,

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2000.886373

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