Multiagent based problem solving in medical decision support systems
Jose Manuel Machado, António Abelha, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Neves · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2006
Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of "infor- mation highways" and "information societies" that are now being visualized. One important consid- eration for the 21st century is to create a telemedi- cal information society whereby patient’s medical data can be accessed globally and transparently of any storage and communication medium. The medical data related to a particular patient may be in various mediums from textural reports to a sur- gery planning video. This information may also be located in various databases and hospital informa- tion systems, and used in medical decision support systems.