Agentbased execution of personalised home care tr

Authors: David Isern Antonio Moreno David Sánchez Ákos Hajnal Gianfranco Pedone László Z Varga

Publish Date: 2009/06/24

Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-180

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Abstract

Home Care services are notoriously difficult to deliver efficiently due to the heterogeneity of the involved actors and the usual comorbidity of the patients assisted at home The K4Care platform proposes an agentbased threelayered architecture aimed at addressing these two issues and facilitate the provision of these services The development of the platform was supported by a methodology to help the automation of the modelling and implementation of the multiagent system The intelligent agents of the platform which personify the Home Care domain actors have the capability to guide the execution of administrative and medical processes driving the flux of knowledge and control among all the involved professionals simplifying their interactions and capturing new medical knowledge emerging from physicians The platform also provides tools that allow medical practitioners to develop personalised treatments adapted to the clinical and social circumstances of each patient and based on the standard international recommendations for the most frequent Home Care pathologies The paper describes the architecture of the system how personalised treatments are created and how they are executed through the coordinated work of agents A comparison with other relevant guideline execution systems and an evaluation of the actual state of the work are also provided

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