Applications of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Search and Appointment System

2013 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Tyrone Edwards ◽  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Appointment System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Agent Development

Access to the correct healthcare facility is a major concern for most people, many of whom gather information about the existing hospitals and healthcare facilities in their locality. After gathering such information, people must do a comparison of the information, make a selection, and then make an appointment with the concerned doctor. The time spent for this purpose would be a major constraint for many individuals. Research is currently underway in this area on incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the services available in the health industry. This paper proposes an agent based approach to replicate the same search operations as the individual would otherwise do, by employing an intelligent agent. The proposed agent based system has been simulated and also validated through implementation on an individual’s smart phone or a PDA using JADE-LEAP agent development kit.

Applications of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Search and Appointment System

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyrone Edwards ◽  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Appointment System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Agent Development

Access to the correct healthcare facility is a major concern for most people, many of whom gather information about the existing hospitals and healthcare facilities in their locality. After gathering such information, people must do a comparison of the information, make a selection, and then make an appointment with the concerned doctor. The time spent for this purpose would be a major constraint for many individuals. Research is currently underway in this area on incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the services available in the health industry. This paper proposes an agent based approach to replicate the same search operations as the individual would otherwise do, by employing an intelligent agent. The proposed agent based system has been simulated and also validated through implementation on an individual’s smart phone or a PDA using JADE-LEAP agent development kit.

scholarly journals 60 Opening the Narrative on Deprivation of Liberty for the Older Person in Residential Healthcare Facilities: A Legal and Ethical Dilemma

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii17-iii65
Author(s):  
Florence Hogan ◽  
Adrian Ahern
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Background While many people enter residential care of their own free will and because it is their preference, the evidence tells us that there are also many who if they had the choice would remain in their own homes. Lack of appropriate community supports may provide some impetus to enter residential care. According to Care Alliance Ireland, an additional four million hours of homecare needs to be provided to cope with the successful ageing demographics, at a cost of €110 million. There is no statutory or common-law power to detain a patient in a Healthcare Facility outside of the application of the Mental Health Act 2001. This presents legal, ethical and moral dilemmas for Healthcare Providers when caring for a person who lacks capacity wishes to self - discharge. A duty of care obligates healthcare professionals to act in the best interest of the individual. Under the Health Act 2007 the requirement is to provide for a ‘safe discharge’. Pending advancement of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 which provides a statutory framework to assist and support individuals to make legally-binding agreements about their welfare, their property and affairs we are currently acting under the Lunacy Regulations (1871). Methods We developed a ‘Deprivation of Liberty’ form which enable comprehensive Interdisciplinary Team discussion and direction of care. Presumption of capacity, respect for the resident’s wishes and consideration of all possible supportive actions up to and including sourcing community support services were considered. Results This format has enabled comprehensive discussion and robust adherence to human rights for three residents thus far Conclusion The situation remains that there is no legal framework to guide healthcare providers currently. Using a Human Rights based approach is imperative to guide us while awaiting advancement of the ADMA (2015) and Deprivation of Liberty legislation to be included in this act.

Intelligent Agents in a Trust Environment

2002 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Rahul Singh ◽  
Mark A. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Distributed System ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Single Agent ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Oriented Activity

Intelligent agents and multi-agent technologies are an emerging technology in computing and communications that hold much promise for a wide variety of applications in Information Technology. Agent-based systems range from the simple, single agent system performing tasks such as email filtering, to a very complex, distributed system of multiple agents each involved in individual and system wide goal-oriented activity. With the tremendous growth in the Internet and Internet-based computing and the explosion of commercial activity on the Internet in recent years, intelligent agent-based systems are being applied in a wide variety of electronic commerce applications. In order to be able to act autonomously in a market environment, agents must be able to establish and maintain trust relationships. Without trust, commerce will not take place. This research extends previous work in intelligent agents to include a mechanism for handling the trust relationship and shows how agents can be fully used as intermediaries in commerce.

scholarly journals Applying Software Engineering to Agent Development

AI Magazine ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Cohen ◽  
Frank E. Ritter ◽  
Steven R Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Reuse ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Integrated Development Environment ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Engineering Activity ◽  
High Level ◽  
Agent Development

Developing intelligent agents and cognitive models is a complex software engineering activity. This article shows how all intelligent agent creation tools can be improved by taking advantage of established software engineering principles such as high-level languages, maintenance-oriented development environments, and software reuse. We describe how these principles have been realized in the Herbal integrated development environment, a collection of tools that allows agent developers to exploit modern software engineering principles.

scholarly journals How information and communication technologies change trends in modelling political processes: towards an agent-based approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-45
Author(s):  
Andrei Akhremenko ◽  
Alexander Petrov ◽  
Sergey Zheglov
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
The Individual

The development of information and communication technologies and computing power leads to the emergence of additional opportunities for modeling political processes. In the past decades, mathematical models have been developed mainly in a game-theoretic setting; today we witness an expanding stream of research applying agent-based (multi-agent) approach. This trend is quite natural. There have been changes in political participation and in the forms of collective interaction of individuals and groups, induced by digital technologies. Researchers have developed theoretical approaches to political participation, focusing on the network interaction and implementing the “bottom-up” logic that infers the macro-properties of the system from the characteristics and interactions of individual agents. Thus, the theoretical foundations for an agent-based modeling, most promising in its network version, have been developed. This approach, however, required a more complex description of the individual motivation and decision making in comparison to the dominant game-theoretic paradigm. One of the key points is that motivation is considered to be linked to the network position of agents, since the individual is guided by the actions of her neighbors. Thus, the course of the political process is determined not only by the properties and decisions of its participants, but also by the type of network architecture that connects them. Within this research framework, a computational experiment, assuming a controlled variation of parameters, plays a special role. Two main strategies of such an experiment are considered: the grid search and the Monte Carlo method. The prospects of agentbased modeling in its network form are related to the study of the dynamical political processes, taking into account the structures of trust and social capital, as well as the resources and mechanisms of collective action.

Applications of Policy Based Agents in Wireless Body Sensor Mesh Networks for Patient Health Monitoring

2012 ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Kevin Miller ◽  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Mesh Networks ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Hierarchical Architecture ◽  
Physiological Parameter ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Temperature Parameter

Considerable research interest in using wireless and mobile technologies in patient health monitoring exists, particularly in hospitals and nursing homes. For health monitoring, an intelligent agent based hierarchical architecture was presented in the authors’ previous work. The technique of monitoring and notifying the health of patients using an intelligent agent, to the concerned hospital personnel, was proposed. This paper presents the details of the functioning of four main intelligent agents, i.e., the nurse agent, the sensor agent, the database agent, and the ward boy agent, for intimating the health information to the concerned doctor in the hospital, based on certain policies relevant to the hospital. The policies worked based on the temperature parameter monitored by the nurse agent. This paper considers an example of the physiological parameter i.e., the body temperature monitoring, for policy based agent implementation. The implementation was carried out using JADE-LEAP agent development kit.

Development of a Technique Preparation Integration System With Agent Technology

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinhua Liu ◽  
Weida Wang ◽  
Wenjian Liu ◽  
Yue Xing
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Intelligent Algorithm ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Definition Of

This study intends to propose an intelligent system with agent technology in order to realize integration and cooperation of technique preparation process. The agent-based system framework, in which various intelligent agents worked together to perform technique preparation tasks in an autonomous and collaborative way, is put forward. The system consists of three categories of agents and functional definition of each intelligent agent is presented. Moreover, agents communication mechanism and cooperation sequence diagram are proposed. Finally, an intelligent algorithm based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is designed to resolve competition conflicts among the agents.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technology in the Role of Information System of Healthcare Facility in the Slovak Republic

Economies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beáta Gavurová ◽  
Antonio Balloni ◽  
Miriama Tarhaničová ◽  
Viliam Kováč
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Information And Communication

The study presents a general overview of the healthcare facility system of the Slovak Republic, especially in a field of the innovation process of the management information system, with a purpose of analysing the consistency and a unity of the system. The data applied in this analysis is collected as a part of the Gesiti research project. This project is developed for mapping out the management of an information system and information technology in healthcare facilities around the whole world. The main goal of the project is to identify the needs and the demands of the healthcare facilities and to create an integrated research report with a focus on a report research roadmap. The information and communication technologies that are applied are partially unsuitable in the healthcare facilities in the Slovak Republic. Information systems are used without exact plans of their future development. This makes it almost impossible to develop them according to the modern needs and to join them with the other systems that are currently used. The big issues also lie in financing these systems and the personnel responsible for them. The outcome of the analysis should create a direction for financial decision making support and for better management of the healthcare facilities, both in the public and the private sector.

Evidence-Based Design in Hospital Renovation Projects: A Study of Design Implementation for User Controls

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Evan Bingham ◽  
David Whitaker ◽  
Jay Christofferson ◽  
Justin Weidman
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
User Control ◽  
Control Factors ◽  
Bed Position ◽  
The Individual

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate and report the implementation of evidence-based design (EBD) principles relating to user controls into hospital renovation projects. Background: Progress requires the application of the most recent knowledge and technology. When it comes to the design and construction of healthcare facilities, the latest knowledge comes in the form of EBD research. EBD is the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes. The desired outcomes of EBD recommendations include improvements to enhance user control. User control factors include the individual control over bed position, air temperature, lights, sound, and natural light. Method: A list of recommendations from existing EBD literature related to user controls was compiled. Construction documents from 30 recent healthcare facility renovation projects across the United States were obtained and analyzed. Implementation levels for the EBD categories of user controls were reported. Results: The findings indicate relatively extensive industry use of EBD principles relating to user control of temperature, lights, and natural lighting. Conclusions: The findings indicate that EBD recommendations related to user controls are being adopted in practice at consistently high levels. These findings also reveal that there are still areas of potential improvement which could inform those who influence or determine building design, codes, standards, and guidelines. The results are helpful to owners, designers, and contractors by providing a glimpse into how well the industry is recognizing and implementing known best practices. The findings likewise introduce new opportunities for further research which could lead to additional improvement in the healthcare facilities of the future.

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