Personal Health Records, Agents Technology and Ontologies for Homecare Monitoring of Chronic Patients

Author

Perez Carreiro, Roberto ; Samper Zapater, Jose Javier ; Chagas do Nascimento, Rogerio Patricio ; Mendes Neto, Francisco Milton

Author_Institution

Univ. de Valencia (UVEG), Valencia, Spain

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1581

Lastpage

1589

Abstract

This article proposes the use of agent technologies, ontologies and rules-based monitoring, which represents medical knowledge as tools to support home monitoring of chronic patients, evaluating their data and generating alerts. It also presents a case study with patients on oral anticoagulant treatment in Spain, showing how to the monitoring is performed into repositories of Personal Health Records for patients through the use of software agents and ontologies, allowing the extraction and integration of data.

Keywords

electronic health records; ontologies (artificial intelligence); patient monitoring; patient treatment; software agents; Spain; agents technology; chronic patients homecare monitoring; data extraction; data integration; medical knowledge; ontologies; oral anticoagulant treatment; personal health records; rules-based monitoring; software agents; Biomedical monitoring; Google; Hospitals; Java; Monitoring; Ontologies; Unified modeling language; Agent Technology; Chronic Patients; Ontology for Homecar Monitoring; Personal Health Records;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2014.7014531

Filename

7014531