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LATIS Pervasive Patient
LATIS Pervasive Patient
Abstract. The cost of maintaining a universal publicly- smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, masking
funded healthcare system has always been astronomical. Our uneven conditioning, context-awareness, natural interface
collaborative effort is aimed at applying information and more.
technology into the healthcare system with the goal of making A MAS [2] is composed of multiple interacting
the delivery of medical services more effective and more
efficient and, also to contribute to the reduction in the cost of computing elements, known as agents.
such delivery. A pervasive healthcare system is aimed at This project enables us researchers to invoke and apply
providing complete healthcare services - that of the various concepts in information technology that are outright
diagnostics, medical prescriptions, and the pervasive tracking visible in this project, such as (1) agency and MAS, (2)
of a patient. The last component provides medical service to a wired and wireless computing, (3) database and dynamic
patient whether he is in or out of the hospital or medical clinic. file structures and, (4) profiles - user, environment and user
This paper is aimed at presenting the last subsystem only. The context profiles. This research work requires the application
architecture, along with its components, is presented, analyzed of concepts in information technology for implementation in
and simulated under different scenarios. Other aspects of a social setting that we all cherish - the hospital.
artificial intelligence such as the application of multi-agent
system and pervasive computing are also applied in the system.
II. RELATED WORK
I. INTRODUCTION Pervasive healthcare is the application of PC, proactive
The overall objective of our goal in building a pervasive computing and ambient intelligence onto the domain of
healthcare system (PHS) is to alleviate the pressure that medical application and administration with the purpose of
confronts our healthcare system. We are proposing making the delivery of medical services more efficient [3].
improvements in some medical services through We believe that the wide-scale deployment of wireless
automation. Its intended effect is to improve the efficiency networks will improve communication among healthcare
in the delivery of some medical services. With improved workers, the delivery of medical services, as well as a more
efficiency of medical practitioners lessens the demand to reliable delivery of medical information between medical
hire more hospital personnel. This would mean savings to practitioners themselves or between a medical practitioner
the coffers of the government. Other benefits include easy and a patient, thus reducing errors. Important works include
availability of patients' medical records due to doing away that of Varshney's concept of pervasive healthcare [4],
with paper record keeping, and the application of the MedNet by Narasimhan et al [5], and the application of
developments in information technology to actual use in a context-aware computing in hospital work [6].
setting that has significant relevance to the society. Varshney [4] discussed the use of mobile devices,
In this paper, we propose a research work leading to a wireless networks, and middleware to provide healthcare
pervasive computing (PC) infrastructure for the delivery of services. His system intervenes in case of emergencies, and
medical services. This system is generic and can be adapted allows faster access to patient's medical data on various
easily to meet some specific needs of one hospital or clinic. portable devices. The MedNet system described by
The system is composed of three subsystems, namely: (1) A Narasimhan et al [5] is a mobile healthcare system. The
pervasive patients system (2) A subsystem for automated system is designed to provide an integrated pervasive
diagnostics and administration of patient's medication, and healthcare environment, enhancing hospital care by using
the patient's context information, and making healthcare
(3) an automated prescription subsystem. information and services available by using the network.
All the above subsystems are integrated to form one In [6], Bardram discussed his vision of applying context-
global system called the LATIS PHS. The integration of the aware computing for medical works in a hospital. A couple
three subsystems into one compact PHS requires that some of scenarios have been designed and some prototypes
areas of artificial intelligence such as the PC and multi- implementing these scenarios have been developed.
agent system (MAS) should be present in this work. Although medical services are universal, still our work
A PC [1] environment is composed of some computing differs from others in three fronts. First, ours makes use of
and communicating technologies which are so integrated caller phone number and GPS system to locate the patient's
with users that they become "invisible". PC encompasses
interrupted task. We envision that the system is designed so context information concerning the user and his device.
that it automatically adapts itself to the new user's device * Notification Agent - it manages notification message
and profile. For example, in scenario 1 (see section D), transfer to and from the logged user
when the ambulance man confirms his observations * Session Agent- manages user activities during the session.
concerning a patient to a physician, he transfers the patient * Services Agent - it manages the components needed to
record to the doctor's portable unit. A portable unit could be provide services to the logged user.
a PDA. The ambulance has no access to the complete
patient's local record due to privacy restrictions. However, Legend Access Devices (AD)
the physician, in contrast, can see the entire record since his |
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