Extending a VEPR System Institutional Boundary
Pedro Vieira‐Marques, Arthur Cunhad, Luís Filipe Antunes, Ricardo Joao Cruz-Correia, Altamiro Costa‐Pereira · Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems · 2007
Information availability is a major concern when the provision of care is at stake. Physicians make their decisions based on the information at hand. Several Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems have been developed in order to make available to physicians structured and helpful information. However most of these systems are unarticulated and usually address only the specificities of a single medical specialty. Virtual Electronic Patient Records (VEPR) such as MAID (Multi Agent system for the Integration of Data) system provide for the necessary means for intra-institutions departmental information integration. Nevertheless, patients are mobile entities, visiting multiple institutions during their life time and leaving a trail of information scattered around. In this paper is presented a mobile agent based extension to the agent based MAID system in order to enable inter-institution patient data integration.