Ubiquitous Healthcare: The OnkoNet Mobile Agents Architecture

Abstract

This paper introduces ubiquitous healthcare, addressing the access of health services by individual consumers applying to mobile computing devices. This access requires knowledge about the individual health status, which may involve (as far as available) the current personal situation (e.g., accident), relevant recent diseases etc., current symptoms or already available diagnosis. Addressing the related IT challenges -e.g., patient-centric knowledge processing, situation awareness, local control -we develop in detail the OnkoNet Mobile Agents Architecture involving architectures on the macrolevel and microlevel as well as cooperation protocols, inference models controlling system behaviour, and a health ontology.

Towards a distributed mobile agent decision support system for optimal patient drug prescription

“…Examples of the use of computer innovation in the health sector include: patient monitoring, interpretation of scans using image processing and pattern recognition technology and eprescription systems. There has also been a keen interest in the use of mobile intelligent agents in many areas including health [7], [6], [8]. This is as a result of the number of proposed benefits and the inherent features of mobile agents [9].…”

“…Furthermore, there have been many applications of computer innovation in other areas in the health sector in recent years which have resulted in many lives being improved, extended and even saved [4], [5], [6]. Examples of the use of computer innovation in the health sector include: patient monitoring, interpretation of scans using image processing and pattern recognition technology and eprescription systems.…”

“…We see this strategy being more useful in our domain, by integrating it with other decision making strategies. Several researchers have explored the use of intelligent agents in the medical field [19], [6], [8], [7]. One reason for this interest, is that medical systems are becoming more distributed as with many other systems today.…”

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“…Research is currently underway to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) [1] and to improve the services offered in the Healthcare Industry. Mobile agents [2][3][4][5][6][7] have gained considerable attention over the years in the area of ICT and have been successfully applied in areas such as m-commerce, e-commerce [8][9][10] and Telemedicine [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Mobile devices have also gained popularity over the years and many persons now own at least one mobile phone and also it is becoming cost effective.…”

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“…Mobile healthcare is considered the next generation of healthcare system and it is changing healthcare services. The move towards modern healthcare is influenced by the growth in healthcare spending fuelled by an ageing population, limited financial and human resources as well as an increase of chronic diseases (such as heart failure, hypertension, obesity, mobility or impairment and chronic heart and lung diseases) [3]- [4]. Various statistics reports indicate that 133 million people, or almost half of all Americans live with a chronic condition.…”