A Distributed E-health Model Using Mobile Agents

In this paper, a 3-layer agent-based model is proposed. The proposed model is supposed to be used as a general framework for e-health systems to facilitate health care processes. This 3-layer model consists of patient layer, clinic layer and central-hospital layer. These layers are hierarchically and horizontally related together. This relationship is defined in order to establish more accuracy in treatment recognition, quick treatment, and diagnosis. It facilitates the relationship between different parts of e-health procedure and reduces the workload and complexity to connect different interfaces. Mobile Agents technology is used to distribute the processing load as well as to support a more flexible peer-to-peer model, scalability and decentralization of control.