Topics of the workshop A2HC 2012
- - Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management (e.g., distributed patient scheduling).
- - Agents that provide remote or elderly care delivery.
- - Agents that provide information about medical services.
- - Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
- - Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.
- - MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).
- - Patient-centered agent-based applications.
- - Medical agent-based decision support systems.
- - Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical knowledge available on Internet.
- - Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
- - Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care.
- - Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems associated to the real deployment of health care agent-based systems:
- -Security, privacy of medical data.
- -Social acceptance of agent-based systems.
- -Integration and use of medical ontologies.
- -Lack of centralised control.
- -Communication standards.
- -Integration with other types of software.