Personal Health Records, Agents Technology and Ontologies for Homecare Monitoring of Chronic Patients

This article proposes the use of agent technologies, ontologies and rules-based monitoring, which represents medical knowledge as tools to support home monitoring of chronic patients, evaluating their data and generating alerts. It also presents a case study with patients on oral anticoagulant treat...

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Published in:Revista IEEE América Latina 2014-12, Vol.12 (8), p.1581-1589
Main Authors: Perez Carreiro, Roberto, Javier Samper Zapater, Jose, Chagas do Nascimento, Rogerio Patricio, Milton Mendes Neto, Francisco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agent Technology
Biomedical monitoring
Chronic Patients
Google
Hospitals
Java
Monitoring
Ontologies
Ontology for Homecar Monitoring
Personal Health Records
Unified modeling language
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Summary:This article proposes the use of agent technologies, ontologies and rules-based monitoring, which represents medical knowledge as tools to support home monitoring of chronic patients, evaluating their data and generating alerts. It also presents a case study with patients on oral anticoagulant treatment in Spain, showing how to the monitoring is performed into repositories of Personal Health Records for patients through the use of software agents and ontologies, allowing the extraction and integration of data.
ISSN:1548-0992
1548-0992
DOI:10.1109/TLA.2014.7014531