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Chapter 7 – Conclusion & Future Scope
A Methodical Approach for Communication & Co-operation between agents using Ontology for Healthcare
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7.1 Introduction
Researchers all over the world are working in either multi agents or in
ontologies for developing system in health care domain. Several
traditional systems also exist in health care domain but they have
many limitations. These limitations had motivated to carry out
research in this domain using multi agent and ontologies. So as a part
of the research work entitled ―A Methodical Approach for
Communication & Co-operation between agents using ontology for
Healthcare‖, a model for hospital activities using multi agents and
ontologies has been developed.
7.2 Conclusion
The whole systems activities are divided into three major parts like
patients, doctors, and admin. Each one has their own role to perform
and system respond accordingly. Several agents have been created
using web services and inter agent communication is done. Ontologies
in form of xml are used for storing information. Different ontologies
have been created for different purpose. For implementing the system
.Net technologies like ASP.Net, C#, jQuery, Ajax, CSS are used.
Current Dialog patient conversation and News part are dynamic and it
is a part of Content Management System (CMS). Some parts used
CMS concept and works exactly like them. In CMS also xml files are
used for managing the states and information. In this system ontology
plays similar role.
The system comprise of following features.
Management of Doctors
Management of Patients
Management of Schedules of Doctor
Management of Patients Appointments
Chapter 7 – Conclusion & Future Scope
A Methodical Approach for Communication & Co-operation between agents using Ontology for Healthcare
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Management of Patient – Doctor Dialogs
Services supported by hospitals
Managing Reports
Feedbacks Management
Inquiry Management
Specialty Management
Searching Information
Managing useful information in form of News
Management of Patient‘s previous visit and its information
7.3 Benefits of Research
Automization of several work in hospital
Efficient Data Management
Easy Data Retrieval
Automatically Reminder of Schedules
It provides features which are not supported by traditional
system
Inter agent communication has been established
Developed ontology for healthcare can be published or further
extended for other researchers
Agents can be modified individually and it can be updated at
single location, so that other agents or applications that are
using the agent get updated values. This reduces the overhead
of updating the agent details all the places.
By combining both the technologies several complex situations
can be handled easily and efficiently
User friendly Graphical User Interface
Multi User and Multi Session application
Algorithms are configurable depending on the requirement
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A Methodical Approach for Communication & Co-operation between agents using Ontology for Healthcare
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7.4 Future Scope
There are also few features which can be integrated with this system
to make it more flexible. Below list shows the future points to be
consider.
Directly getting the images for CT Scan or X-Rays from
connected device
Mapped with Insurance Companies for claim processing
Billing of patients
Blood Bank Information Management
Producing ECG using connected device
Video Conferencing facility for remote areas for treatments
Hangout for different doctors and patients at different locations