A Systematic Literature Review of Agents Applied in Healthcare.

Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of multi-agent systems. The purpose of this review is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents i...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15
Autores principales: Isern, David, Moreno, Antonio
Formato: meta analysis research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2016
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Sumario:Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of multi-agent systems. The purpose of this review is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents in the healthcare domain and use the findings to provide a discussion of current trends and devise future research directions. A review of the most recent literature (2009-2014) of applications of agents in healthcare is discussed, and two classifications considering the main goal of the health systems as well as the main actors involved have been investigated. This review shows that the number of published works exhibits a growing interest of researchers in this field in a wide range of applications.