A multiagent system enhancing home-care health services for chronic disease management.

In this paper, a multiagent system (MAS) is presented, aiming to enhance monitoring, surveillance, and educational services of a generic medical contact center (MCC) for chronic disease management. In such a home-care scenario, a persistent need arises for efficiently monitoring the patient contacts...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 9, 4 (2005).
Main Author:	Koutkias, V.G
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Alert messages. Chronic disease management. Coordination strategy. Dynamic environment. Educational services. Healthcare. Home-care health services. Knowledge-sharing mechanism. Medical contact center. Medical contact monitoring. Medical data collection. Multiagent system. Patient contacts. Real-time information-processing task. Software agents. Surveillance. Telemedicine.