Soft computing agents for e-Health: A prototype for glaucoma monitoring

This paper proposes an e-Health framework as a medical holarchy that extends our previous telehealth implementation [1] enabling remote medical entities (physicians, medical devices, etc.) to work together to provide a needed medical service. The proposed extension opens the possibility to develop a generic e-Health expert system framework as a versatile template applicable to the improvement and easy accessibility of guidelines of care for any long term degenerative disease. Particularly we target the mining, retrieval, modification management, and synchronization of various databases used by doctors while ensuring the security requirements associated with web services in the context of e-Health applications are met. Although the proposed framework is applicable to the monitoring of any long term degenerative disease, here we resume ourselves to its application for glaucoma monitoring with particular focus on the workflow used by ophthalmologists monitoring glaucoma.