Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas
in Artificial Intelligence. In the last ten years there has been a
growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in
health care. Moreover, a growing European community of researchers
interested in the application of intelligent agents in health care
emerged as a result of the activities within the AgentCities.NET
European network and the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on
Healthcare Applications of Intelligent Agents. And specially in
R&D projects funded during the FP6. Thus, this book reports on
the results achieved in this area, discuss the benefits (and
drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains
and society, and also to provide a list of the research topics that
should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of
health-care agent-based systems a reality. Current topics of
research include communication and co-operation betweendistributed
intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that
retrieve medical information from the Internet, and multi-agent
systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and
diagnosis. A lot of methodological and technical problems are
beginning to be discovered by the researchers that attempt to
deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few,
there does not exist a universally accepted standard medical
ontology, it is difficult to integrate new agent systems with
legacy software, and these new agent-based systems should take into
account rapidly changing national and international laws and
regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security
of the transaction of patient information between agents. The
reader will find a comprehensive view of the field and up-to-date
state-of-the-art of the research in this field in Europe.
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