Remote Patient Monitoring and Healthcare Management Using Multi-agent Based Architecture

Governments in under developing countries face serious problems for offering quality healthcare services at reasonable cost due to rapidly graying population and patients with chronic diseases. Due to currently healthcare resources are not sufficient, many deaths without medication are produced. Thus, this increasing important issue needs to be attended. Our approach to tackle this issue is based on Multi-agent system (MAS) architecture. Our Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system monitors patients taking into account physiological and environmental parameters. In this way, RPM provides reliable and low-cost healthcare to elderly, chronically, and acutely people either indoor or outdoor environment. Our hypothesis is that an effective use of healthcare resources, entails reduction of unnecessary hospitalizations, minimizes among others: cost, treatment, and monitoring. However, despite of RPM potential applications, it has not become an integrated part of patient care in heterogeneous environments, mainly due to the lack of knowledge and infrastructure. This paper presents the design and implemented MAS architecture for RPM, identifying barriers and providing perspectives for the future.