Authors:
John McGrory
1
;
Frank Clarke
1
;
Jane Grimson
2
and
Peter Gaffney
3
Affiliations:
1
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
;
2
School of Computing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
;
3
Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Incorporating the National Children's Hospital (AMNCH), Ireland
Keyword(s):
Clinical laboratory validation, patient-centred, patient-focused, agents, computer-interpretable-guideline (CIG), guidelines and protocols.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Decision Support Systems
;
e-Health
;
Expert Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Hospital Management Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Guidelines are self-contained documents which healthcare professionals reference to obtain knowledge about a specific condition or process. They interface with these documents and apply known facts about specific patients to gain useful supportive information to aid in developing a diagnosis or manage a condition. To automate this process a series of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and workflow processes are constructed using the contents of these documents in order to manage the validation flow of a patient sample. These processes decompose the guidelines into workflow plans, which are then called using condition triggers controlled by a centralised management engine. The software BDI agent offers an alternative dynamic which more closely matches the modus operandi of narrative based medical guidelines. An agent’s beliefs capture information attributes, plans capture the deliberative and action attributes, and desire captures the motivational attributes of the guideline in a sel
f-contained autonomous software module. Agents acting on behalf of guidelines which overlap and interweave in similar domains can collaborate and coordinate in a loosely coupled fashion without the need for an all encompassing centralised plan.
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