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ArticleHealthcare informatics research2015

Chronic Heart Failure Follow-up Management Based on Agent Technology.

Niloofar Mohammadzadeh, Reza Safdari

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Niloofar MohammadzadehDepartment of Health Information Management, Paramedical Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza SafdariDepartment of Health Information Management, Paramedical Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Abstract

objectivesMonitoring heart failure patients through continues assessment of sign and symptoms by information technology tools lead to large reduction in re-hospitalization. Agent technology is one of the strongest artificial intelligence areas; therefore, it can be expected to facilitate, accelerate, and improve health services especially in home care and telemedicine. The aim of this article is to provide an agent-based model for chronic heart failure (CHF) follow-up management.

methodsThis research was performed in 2013-2014 to determine appropriate scenarios and the data required to monitor and follow-up CHF patients, and then an agent-based model was designed.

resultsAgents in the proposed model perform the following tasks: medical data access, communication with other agents of the framework and intelligent data analysis, including medical data processing, reasoning, negotiation for decision-making, and learning capabilities.

conclusionsThe proposed multi-agent system has ability to learn and thus improve itself. Implementation of this model with more and various interval times at a broader level could achieve better results. The proposed multi-agent system is no substitute for cardiologists, but it could assist them in decision-making.

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Artificial IntelligenceHealth Information SystemsHeart FailureMulti-agent Systems

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PMID26618038
PMCPMC4659889

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