Provenance in Agent-Mediated Healthcare Systems

Author

Kifor, Tamás ; Varga, László Z. ; Vázquez-Salceda, Javier ; Álvarez, Sergio ; Willmott, Steven ; Miles, Simon ; Moreau, Luc

Author_Institution

Comput. & Autom. Res. Inst., Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest

Volume

21

Issue

6

fYear

2006

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

46

Abstract

People are increasingly cooperating to share electronic information and techniques throughout various industries. In healthcare applications, data (a single patient´s healthcare history), workflow (procedures carried out on that patient), and logs (a recording of meaningful procedural events) are often distributed among several heterogeneous and autonomous information systems. Understanding a patient´s treatment history can help healthcare providers make treatment decisions. Provenance-aware applications can facilitate this process by tracing events, event dependencies, and provider decisions across various healthcare institutions

Keywords

decision making; distributed processing; health care; medical information systems; multi-agent systems; object-oriented programming; patient treatment; software agents; agent-mediated healthcare system; electronic information sharing; event dependency; event tracing; healthcare provider decision; heterogeneous autonomous information system; patient healthcare history; patient log; patient treatment history; patient workflow; provenance-aware application; Automation; Computer industry; Documentation; Electronics industry; History; Hospitals; Industrial electronics; Information systems; Medical services; Medical treatment; Internet applications; artificial intelligence; computer applications; computing methodologies; data dependencies; database management; distributed artificial intelligence; healthcare; information technology and systems; information technology and systems applications; intelligent agents; life and medical sciences; medical information systems; provenance; workflow management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2006.119

Filename

4042534