Intelligent Agent Framework for Secure Patient-Doctor Profiling and Profile Matching

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a promising technology for improving services and reduction of cost in health care. Accurate almost real time data acquisition and analysis of patient data and the ability to update such a data is a way to improve patient’s care and reduce cost in health care systems. This article employs wireless radio frequency identification technology to acquire patient data and integrates wireless technology for fast data acquisition and transmission, while maintaining the security and privacy issues. An intelligent agent framework is proposed to assist in managing patients’ health care data in a hospital environment. A data classification method based on fuzzy logic is proposed and developed to improve the data security and privacy of data collected and propagated.

Computational Intelligence for User and Data Classification in Hospital Software Development

“…The profiling of patient doctor model [7] is based on the patient / doctor information is used in this research study. In the patient / doctor profiling the intelligent agent software [2] will make distinctions in attribute values of the profiles and match the profiles with highest value.…”

“…There is a need for more research into applications and innovative architectures for secure access, retrieval and update of data in healthcare systems [1,5,7,8]. This research study considers a framework using RFID and Intelligent Software Agents for managing patients' health care data in a hospital environment.…”

“…Next section describes the patient to doctor profiling and the intelligent software agents developed [7]. Section three discusses the important issue of maintaining patients' data security and integrity and explains the use of RFID.…”

“…To this end the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been shown to be a viable and promising technology in the health care industry [1,5,7,8]. RFID technology has the capability to penetrate and add value to many areas of health care.…”

“…There are several areas where using RFID in the role of data collection can have significant positive benefits for hospitals. These include care tracking to provide the right care to the right patient at the right time; quality of care provision; cost of care reduction by providing effective use of available resources to reduce the cost of the resources; and improved service of care by providing timely information to enable a more informed decision about an individual's need for care [7].…”