Title : 
Design and Implementation of Healthcare Support System Based on Agent-based Framework
         
        
            Author : 
Takahashi, Hideyuki ; Izumi, Satoru ; Suganuma, Takuo ; Kinoshita, Tetsuo ; Shiratori, Norio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper describes a healthcare support system based on multi-agent. This system provides wellness advice and information regarding health condition effectively and in user-oriented manner. Our system utilizes knowledge about healthcare and various information including vital sign, physical location, and video data of a user under observation from real space as a means to provide advanced healthcare support services. We propose an agent-based framework for user-oriented healthcare support system based on concept of symbiotic computing. In this paper, we describe the concept and design of the system with multi-agent-based framework and also present the prototype implementation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
health care; multi-agent systems; advanced healthcare support services; healthcare support system design; healthcare support system implementation; multi-agent-based framework; symbiotic computing; user-oriented healthcare support system; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Information technology; Large-scale systems; Medical services; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Symbiosis; Wearable sensors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications, 2009. ICUT '09. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Fukuoka
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5131-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICUT.2009.5405679