title: A multi-agent approach to the design of an e-health system.
abstract: E-medicine covers the whole range of medical process and service. Multi-agent approach is suitable for the development of e-medicine systems. In this paper, firstly the requirements of e-medicine are analyzed and taxonomy is proposed for e-medicine systems. Secondly multi-agent approach is introduced for developing e-medicine systems, and the design of agents and the design of multi-agent structure are presented for e-medicine systems. Finally a case study is presented on a telemedicine for diabetes to illustrate the development of e-medicine systems. Then, our future work is to implement the proposed system.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Research, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy, Via Antonio Nibby 18, 00161 Rome, Italy. Paola.Digiacomo@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Giacomo
authors.forename: Fabrizio L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Ricci
mesh_terms: D007558:Italy; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development