An HL7-Aware multi-agent system for efficiently handling query answering in an e-health context

  • Authors:
  • Pasquale De Meo;Gabriele Di Quarto;Giovanni Quattrone;Domenico Ursino

  • Affiliations:
  • DIMET, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy;DIMET, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy;DIMET, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy;DIMET, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present a multi-agent system aiming at supporting patients to search health care services of their interest in an e-health scenario The proposed system is HL7-aware in that it represents both patient and service information according to the directives of HL7, the information management standard adopted in medical context In this paper we illustrate the technical characteristics of our system and we present a comparison between it and other related systems already proposed in the literature.