Intelligent agent based hospital search &amp; appointment system

Edwards, Tyrone; Sankaranarayanan, Suresh

doi:10.1145/1655925.1656027

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“…Examples of multi-agent toolkits are Concordia, Gossip, FarGo, IBM Aglets and JADE (with the LEAP add-on).The most suitable of the five toolkits above would be the JADE powered by the LEAP add-on (JADE-LEAP). According to the literature JADE-LEAP is the only multi-agent toolkit capable of creating agents that can execute on a mobile device with limited resources [3], [4. ] B.…”

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“…These areas include patient data management, organ transplant and patient monitoring [10], [11] but to date there existed none which addresses the issue of hospital search and appointment scheduling via intelligent agents on mobile devices such as the cell phone. So an intelligent agent based hospital search and appointment system [3], [4] was developed for mobile phone which would allow users towards searching the best hospital and also fixing appointment. Even in the system developed there existed a drawback in scheduling the appointment with the doctors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These mobile technologies, combined with the use of the internet have pushed mankind to a new frontier of information distribution and gathering. Recently there has been system developed for health care service towards searching and appointment using J2Me mobile handset [3], [4]. The drawback of this system in respect of appointment fixing is that it only gives confirmation for the available date requested or next available date [3], [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recently there has been system developed for health care service towards searching and appointment using J2Me mobile handset [3], [4]. The drawback of this system in respect of appointment fixing is that it only gives confirmation for the available date requested or next available date [3], [4]. Literature shows no research has yet been reported in fixing the priority level of patients towards scheduling appointment with the doctor.…”

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Application of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Appointment Scheduling System

Hylton¹,

Sankaranarayanan²

2012

IJCTE

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Normally when we want to make an appointment with the hospital staff, it becomes really tedious and time consuming. Over the past considerable amount of work have been done by using software Agents in areas like m-commerce, e-commerce, telemedicine etc. Agent based systems have also been developed for the hospital service, for searching and fixing appointment over mobile phones which gives a direct reply when the appointment is made or the next available date(s) or cancelled. However, no facility like priority appointment of patients has been developed. Also the appointment does not take into consideration emergency situations like Accidents and so on and the scheduling reported is only for general patient appointment only. Taking these important aspects into consideration, we here have developed an intelligent agent based system towards negotiating and collaborating with the agents of doctors and the hospital for the appropriate appointment time for the patient which would take the above factors into consideration. In addition the meetings of the junior staff like the duty doctor and nurse with the chief doctor regarding patients would also carried out again while taking into consideration the medical condition of the patient admitted and so on. These agents developed would function based on fuzzy preference rules, to make a proper decision regarding making an appointment for patient and other hospital staff , which is very unique and first of its kind. The system validated uses ANDROID 2.2 and JADE-LEAP, for providing a robust, user friendly solution for the patient and doctor.

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Section: A Intelligent Agentsmentioning

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Application of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Appointment Scheduling System

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Sankaranarayanan²

2012

IJCTE

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“…It may be mentioned here that the use of software agents (Franklin & Graesser, 1996) to mimic the behavior of a human agent can alleviate this problem particularly in the critical field of health care where one may need to access a doctor/hospital for treatment. There has been a quite an amount of research work carried out in the use of software intelligent agents in the healthcare industry towards hospital search and appointment (Edwards & Suresh, 2009 and these have been explained in Section 3.1 of the paper. In spite of these, there still exist some deficiencies in those proposed systems and these are the motivations for this research and this paper.…”

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Smart Agent-Based Hospital Search, Appointment, and Medical Diagnosis

Smith

Sankaranarayanan

2012

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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Various areas of the healthcare industry have seen some progress in the use of ICT to aid in the treatment of patients including some amount of automation in the key areas. The authors infer that some pitfalls exist in the healthcare administration. To obviate these, the use of Agent technology as a practical solution to solve some hospital related issues with particular emphasis on hospital search and appointment allocation has been researched. The authors explore the use of agent technology to assist patients seeking treatment for their ailment at a hospital chosen, and priority is provided based on treatment. The patients have been given the facility to select an appropriate hospital based on their preferred selection criterion, achieved through the use of their mobile phone by exactly replicating the job of a human being agent. The authors study first how smart agents can be used to search for hospitals based on user selection criteria in combination with the Google Map facility and fairly diagnose their medical ailments using Layman language. The Agent proposed here, also facilitates verification of doctor’s license before the appointment with him is confirmed. Lastly, the proposed system provides the rating and the popularity factors of the selected hospital in respect of ailment based and on number of persons visited. The system also alerts the hospital for poor rating/popularity enabling working towards improvement. The Smart agents proposed for action act autonomously and have the ability to intelligently use the available knowledgebase and user parameters to make appropriate decisions on behalf of the user. The system uses ANDROID 2.2, JADE-LEAP and the Google API to provide a robust, user friendly solution.

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