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vhMentor: An Ontology Supported Mobile Agent System for Pervasive Health Care Monitoring

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GeNeDis 2016

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 989))

Abstract

Healthcare provision is a set of activities that demands the collaboration of several stakeholders (e.g. physicians, nurses, managers, patients etc.) who hold distinct expertise and responsibilities. In addition, medical knowledge is diversely located and often shared under no central coordination and supervision authority, while medical data flows remain mostly passive regarding the way data is delivered to both clinicians and patients. In this paper, we propose the implementation of a virtual health Mentor (vhMentor) which stands as a dedicated ontology schema and FIPA compliant agent system. Agent technology proves to be ideal for developing healthcare applications due to its distributed operation over systems and data sources of high heterogeneity. Agents are able to perform their tasks by acting pro-actively in order to assist individuals to overcome limitations posed during accessing medical data and executing non-automatic error-prone processes. vhMentor further comprises the Jess rules engine in order to implement reasoning logic. Thus, on the one hand vhMentor is a prototype that fills the gap between healthcare systems and the care provision community, while on the other hand allows the blending of next generation distributed services in healthcare domain.

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  1. Business Administration Department, TEI Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece

    Stella C. Christopoulou & Theodore Kotsilieris

  2. Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

    Stella C. Christopoulou & Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

  3. Cultural Technology & Communication Department, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

    Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos

  4. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Phivos Mylonas

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Christopoulou, S.C., Kotsilieris, T., Anagnostopoulos, I., Anagnostopoulos, CN., Mylonas, P. (2017). vhMentor: An Ontology Supported Mobile Agent System for Pervasive Health Care Monitoring. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2016 . Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57348-9_5

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