Agents acting and moving in healthcare scenario - a paradigm for telemedical collaboration

Author

Mea, V.D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Pathology, Udine Univ., Italy

Volume

5

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

This paper describes a novel approach to the analysis and development of telemedicine systems, based on the multi-agent paradigm. An agent is an autonomous, social, reactive and proactive entity, and is sometimes also mobile. Since telemedicine is grounded on communication and the sharing of resources, agents are suitable for telemedicine systems analysis and implementation, and we adopted them for developing a prototype telemedical agent.

Keywords

groupware; health care; medical expert systems; multi-agent systems; systems analysis; teleconferencing; telemedicine; autonomous social reactive proactive entity; biomedical communication; cooperative systems; healthcare; mobile agents; multi-agent system; prototype telemedical agent; resource sharing; telecommunication; telemedical collaboration; telemedicine systems analysis; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Cooperative systems; Education; Medical services; Mobile communication; Prototypes; Telematics; Telemedicine; Italy; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4233.908354

Filename

908354