Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)
Contributors: Antonio Moreno (Editor); John L. Nealon (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: January 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9783764326623
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Information technology industries; Information Technology; Computer Books: General; Computers; Technology & Industrial Arts; Acoustics & Sound; Administration; Computer Science; Applied AgentTechnology; Artificial Intelligence; Computers / Computer Science; Health Care Administration; Health Informatics; Data processing; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Medical informatics; Medicine
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.