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The global expansion of information technologies in every sector and industry made the use of computers in Health-care increasingly common since long time ago. Recently new and innovative applications of information technologies in Healthcare are going up in several areas.
Authors would like to acknowledge support from the SHARE-it: Supported Human Autonomy for Recovery and Enhancement of cognitive and motor abilities using information technologies (FP6-IST-045088). The views expressed in this paper are not necessarily those of SHARE-it consortium.
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Villar, A., Federici, A., Annicchiarico, R. (2007). Agents and Healthcare: A Glance to the Future. In: Annicchiarico, R., Cortés, U., Urdiales, C. (eds) Agent Technology and e-Health. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8547-7_8
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