With the high-level developments in the information technologies, there is a big
movement in the e-health area both to give better healthcare services and to
reduce cost. Monitoring the patients from their home location is one of the
important branches of e-health with the aging societies. In this work, an agentbased
alert system is introduced which analyzes the alert message requests and
sends the alert messages within the appropriate structure and communication
channel to the related healthcare user. A guideline execution system produces
the alert requests based on sensor data and informs the alert agents.
A multi-agent platform is developed which proactively sends the alert messages
on behalf of the system with acknowledgement and message routing abilities.
The multi-agent platform has patient alert agents for each patient in the system.
A rule engine is cooperated with agents for the analysis of the alert message
requests to bind these requests with the healthcare user specifications. E-mail
messaging, SMS and MSN Instant messaging are used to reach the healthcare users. Additionally, web-based user interfaces are developed for healthcare users
to manage the alert system for intelligent healthcare monitoring by specifying
alert message receiving rules, personal and contact information, and some more
additional options.
The work presented in this thesis is realized as a part of the SAPHIRE project
funded by the European Commission.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12607257/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 June 2006 |
| Creators | Akcay, Bugrahan |
| Contributors | Dogac, Asuman |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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