Patient monitoring under an ambient intelligence setting

• Author(s): Gomes, Pedro Eduardo ; Marques, Alberto ; Costa, Ângelo ; Novais, Paulo ; Neves, José
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19015
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Ambient intelligence; e-Health; Patient monitoring; Multi-agent systems; Logical based reasoning; RFID
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Springer - Series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 72 In recent years there has been a growing interest in developing Ambient Intelligence based systems in order to create smart environments for user and environmental monitoring. In fact, higher-level monitoring systems with vital information about the user and the environment around him/her represents an improvement of the quality of care provided. In this paper, we propose an architecture that implements a multi-agent user-profile based system for patient monitoring aimed to improve the assistance and health care provided. This system mixes logical based reasoning mechanisms with context-aware technologies. It is also presented a case based on a scenario developed at a major Portuguese healthcare institution.