TY - GEN
T1 - Healthcare applications based on software agents
AU - Mazzi, Christian
AU - Ganguly, Pronab
AU - Kidd, Michael
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Healthcare has been recognised as one of the most important areas for enterprise applications and services. Presently, information technologists and systems engineers all over the world are working towards achieving better efficiency and quality of service in various sectors of healthcare, such as telemedicine, hospital management, patient-care, and treatment. This paper addresses the issue of more effective and efficient handling of doctor patient relationship. The idea is to use Software Agent technology to extend the patient-doctor relationship beyond the physical and logistical limitation of face-to-face consultations in patient management. Software agents can provide an extension of the doctor by interacting with the patient via a computer and the Internet. The agent is visualised as an anthropomorphic figure to further enhance the patient interaction.
AB - Healthcare has been recognised as one of the most important areas for enterprise applications and services. Presently, information technologists and systems engineers all over the world are working towards achieving better efficiency and quality of service in various sectors of healthcare, such as telemedicine, hospital management, patient-care, and treatment. This paper addresses the issue of more effective and efficient handling of doctor patient relationship. The idea is to use Software Agent technology to extend the patient-doctor relationship beyond the physical and logistical limitation of face-to-face consultations in patient management. Software agents can provide an extension of the doctor by interacting with the patient via a computer and the Internet. The agent is visualised as an anthropomorphic figure to further enhance the patient interaction.
KW - and patient monitoring
KW - chronic disease management
KW - diabetes
KW - doctor-patient relationship
KW - Healthcare
KW - software agents
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869443275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-136
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-136
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 11604721
AN - SCOPUS:84869443275
SN - 1586031945
SN - 9781586031947
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 136
EP - 140
BT - MEDINFO 2001 - Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics
PB - IOS PRESS
T2 - 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO 2001
Y2 - 2 September 2005 through 5 September 2005
ER -