VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010)

*VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010) *
http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/a2hc2010/

*Important dates *
Workshop paper submission: *April 27th, 2010 *
Notifications on Workshop paper submissions:  *June 7th, 2010 *
Final paper submission:  *June 28th, 2010 *

*Topics *
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Co‐operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management
(e.g., distributed
patient scheduling).
• Agents that provide remote or elderly care delivery.
• Agents that provide information about medical services.
• Multi‐agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
• Agent‐based execution of clinical guidelines.
• Successful applications of agents and multi‐agent systems in health care.
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Multi‐agent systems that improve medical training or education (e.g.
tutoring systems).

• Patient‐centered agent‐based applications.
• Medical agent‐based decision support systems.
•
Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical knowledge
available on
Internet.
•
Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems
associated to the real
deployment of health‐care agent‐based systems:
   • Security, privacy of medical data.
   • Social acceptance of agent‐based systems.
   • Lack of clinical ontologies.
   • Lack of centralised control.
   • Communication standards (HL7 and EN13606).
   • Integration with other types of software.
   • Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
•
Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the
area of agents in health
care.

*Contact
Antonio Moreno* (ITAKA Research Group )
 e-mail: antonio.moreno_at_urv.cat