Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies)
Contributors: Antonio Moreno (Editor); John L. Nealon (Editor)
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780817626624
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Information technology industries; Medical informatics; Data processing; Technology & Industrial Arts; Computer Books: General; Medicine; Acoustics & Sound; Intelligent agents (Computer s; Intelligent agents (Computer software)
First sentence: Health care at all levels - local, regional, national and international - is a vast open environment characterized by shared and distributed decision making and management of care, requiring the communication of complex and diverse forms of information between a variety of clinical and other settings, as well as the coordination between groups of health care professionals with very different skills and roles.