Agent-based semantic service discovery for healthcare:: An organizational approach

The significance of agent-based service in healthcare is discussed. As e-health is evolving into entities such as m-health (mobile) or u-health (ubiquitous), which focus on applications that provide healthcare to people anywhere, anytime using broadband and wireless mobile technologies, service-oriented approach based on semantics is finding its utility due to its ability to offer different description to different cases. The integration of Sematic Web services and agent technologies use the interactions' contextual information for advanced e-health applications to acquire information related to interactions using open software systems. In this system, the patient, healthcare professionals who provide on-site medical care, external emergency assistance organizations and administrators of local healthcare institutions play a key role. The system uses a taxonomy of social roles and interactions, and generalizes the social interactions to model these interactions.