Agents applied in health care: A review

Isern, David; Sánchez, David; Moreno, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.01.003

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“…Agent technology is adopted in designing the pathway engine. Agent technology has been approved as a good option to be used in developing health-care applications (Isern et al, 2010). In comparison to classical software paradigms, agents offer a natural way of tackling inherently distributed problems with heterogeneous sources, by cooperating and coordinating their activities, and also acting pro-actively to perform tasks that may be beneficial for the user (Nealon & Moreno, 2003).…”

Section: System Modules and Interaction Mechanism Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated clinical pathway management for medical quality improvement – based on a semiotically inspired systems architecture

Liu

Yang

et al. 2014

European Journal of Information Systems

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Clinical pathway is an approach to standardise care processes to support the implementations of clinical guidelines and protocols. It is designed to support the management of treatment processes including clinical and non-clinical activities, resources and also financial aspects. It provides detailed guidance for each stage in the management of a patient with the aim of improving the continuity and coordination of care across different disciplines and sectors. However, in the practical treatment process, the lack of knowledge sharing and information accuracy of paper-based clinical pathways burden health-care staff with a large amount of paper work. This will often result in medical errors, inefficient treatment process and thus poor quality medical services. This paper first presents a theoretical underpinning and a co-design research methodology for integrated pathway management by drawing input from organisational semiotics. An approach to integrated clinical pathway management is then proposed, which aims to embed pathway knowledge into treatment processes and existing hospital information systems. The capability of this approach has been demonstrated through the case study in one of the largest hospitals in China. The outcome reveals that medical quality can be improved significantly by the classified clinical pathway knowledge and seamless integration with hospital information systems.

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Section: System Modules and Interaction Mechanism Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated clinical pathway management for medical quality improvement – based on a semiotically inspired systems architecture

Liu

Yang

et al. 2014

European Journal of Information Systems

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“…Because of potential capabilities of agent technology like mobility [44], autonomy, interoperability, scalability and re-configurability, integrating disparate systems, improving distributed data and resources management, handling the complexity of solutions, modeling and organizing the interrelationships between components [31][32][33][34][35][36][46][47][48][49][50][51], is very valuable tool for telemedicine and telecare.…”

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Mobile Health Monitoring

Mohammadzadeh¹,

Safdari²

2016

Mobile Health Technologies - Theories and Applications

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Chronic diseases impose heavy burden and costs on the health industry in many countries. Suitable health procedures, management, and prevention of disease by continuous monitoring through modern technologies can lead to a decrease in health costs and improve people empowerment. Applying remote medical diagnosis and monitoring system based on mobile health systems can help significantly reduce health care costs and correct performance management particularly in chronic disease management. In this chapter, mHealth opportunities in patient monitoring with the introduction of various systems specifically in chronic disease are expressed. Also mHealth challenges in patient monitoring in general and specific aspects are identified. Some of the general challenges include threats to confidentiality and privacy, and lack of information communication technology (ICT), and mobile infrastructure. In specific aspect, some difficulties include lack of system interoperability with electronic health records and other IT tools, decrease in face-to-face communication between doctor and patient, ill-functioning of system that leads to medical errors and negative effects on care outcomes, patients, and personnel, and factors related to the telecommunication industry include reliability and sudden interruptions of telecommunication networks.

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“…To address this issue, many social welfare services, and supporting machines or systems for them, have been developed [1][2][3]. In particular, the responsibility of providing healthcare for the elderly and handicapped is now being shared by the families and various organizations.…”

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Real-Time Heart Rate Monitoring System based on Ring-Type Pulse Oximeter Sensor

Park¹,

Kim²,

Ko³

et al. 2013

Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology

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-With the continuous aging of the populations in developed countries, the medical requirements of the aged are expected to increase. In this paper, a ring-type pulse oximeter finger sensor and a 24-hour ambulatory heart rate monitoring system for the aged are presented. We also demonstrate the feasibility of extracting accurate heart rate variability measurements from photoelectric plethysmography signals gathered using a ring-type pulse oximeter sensor attached to the finger. We designed the heart rate sensor using a CPU with built-in ZigBee stack for simplicity and low power consumption. We also analyzed the various distorted signals caused by motion artifacts using a FFT, and designed an algorithm using a least squares estimator to calibrate the signals for better accuracy.

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Agents applied in health care: A review

Cited by 159 publications

References 26 publications

Integrated clinical pathway management for medical quality improvement – based on a semiotically inspired systems architecture

Integrated clinical pathway management for medical quality improvement – based on a semiotically inspired systems architecture

Mobile Health Monitoring

Real-Time Heart Rate Monitoring System based on Ring-Type Pulse Oximeter Sensor

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