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Agents Working on the Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources in Distributed Healthcare Environments

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2000, SBIA 2000)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 1952))

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Hospital information infrastructures integrate today complex mosaics of heterogeneous systems, often dependent on legacy systems. The integration of disparate information sources in healthcare is an essential effort since physicians, and other hospital personnel, use to analyze and combine data provided by different sources distributed along the hospital facilities. Day-after- -day their needs for effective means and tools to support such integration of data increase significantly. In order to fulfill such requirements we designed and developed an extensible multi-agent system that physicians may use to access multiple medical data sources available at the hospital, in a transparent way. This paper presents an overall description of the system giving special attention to its architecture and community of software agents. The agents were specially planned for clinical information gathering, cleaning, integration and presentation in healthcare environments.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, 4700-320, Braga, Portugal

    Ilídio Castro Oliveira

  2. Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro, IEETA — Instituto de Eng., 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Orlando Belo & João Paulo Cunha

  3. Dep. de Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    João Paulo Cunha

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Statistics Computational Intelligence Laboratory, University of São Paulo, Avenida Trabalhador Sãocarlense 400, 13566-590, São Carlos, Brazil

    Maria Carolina Monard

  2. Computer Engineering Department Intelligent Techniques Laboratory, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158, tv. 3, 05508-900, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jaime Simão Sichman

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Oliveira, I.C., Belo, O., Cunha, J.P. (2000). Agents Working on the Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources in Distributed Healthcare Environments. In: Monard, M.C., Sichman, J.S. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. IBERAMIA SBIA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1952. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44399-1_15

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