title: Organizational & medical ontologies for co-operative patient management.
abstract: A new research paradigm is emerging based on the Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectural framework, allowing human and software agents to interoperate and thus cooperate within common application areas. In this paper, we discuss an ontological foundation for a prototypical health care MAS, that is, a so-called Distributed Healthcare Information System (D-HIS), viewed as an organization of cognitive agents and making use of an ontological library written in the standard language Ontolingua.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Systems Science, University of Pavia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Falasconi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic