Title :
Health delivery systems — A case for multi-agent systems
Author :
Tian, Jiang ; Tianfield, Huaglory
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage. & Econ., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
Health delivery systems, involving patients, physicians, health service providers, medication suppliers, medicare, and policies, etc., are a typical complex distributed systems problem. This paper analyses the characteristics of health delivery systems, reviews common coordination mechanisms, and proposes the synergization of multi-agent systems to tackle the complexities of health delivery systems.
Keywords :
distributed processing; health care; multi-agent systems; distributed systems problem; health delivery system; multiagent system; Conference management; Cybernetics; Engineering management; Hospitals; Management information systems; Medical treatment; Multiagent systems; Picture archiving and communication systems; Technology management; USA Councils; health delivery systems; multi-agent system; synergization; system of systems;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2793-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1062-922X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346569
