title: A Systematic Literature Review of Agents Applied in Healthcare.
abstract: Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of multi-agent systems. The purpose of this review is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents in the healthcare domain and use the findings to provide a discussion of current trends and devise future research directions. A review of the most recent literature (2009-2014) of applications of agents in healthcare is discussed, and two classifications considering the main goal of the health systems as well as the main actors involved have been investigated. This review shows that the number of published works exhibits a growing interest of researchers in this field in a wide range of applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, ITAKA Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Països Catalans, 26, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia (Spain). david.isern@urv.cat.
authors.forename: David
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-9466
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Isern
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, ITAKA Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Països Catalans, 26, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia (Spain). antonio.moreno@urv.cat.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moreno
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016494:Computer Security; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D063025:Health Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D063005:Health Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans
keywords: Healthcare; Intelligent agents; Review