Intelligent agents technology applied to tasks control in ICU telesupervision

This work presents a telemedicine system for Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The system provides the real time acquisition and analysis of physiological data of patients, the graphical visualization of these data and their transmission to a central system charged with the collection and control of all the information concerning the patient, including knowledge based systems (KBS) for medical reasoning. For the distribution and control of various processing tasks, requested by the medical KBS or directly by physicians, we have developed a module based on intelligent agents technology that controls and distributes the tasks according to their priority and to the availability of resources between the interconnected computers.