Research Article
An Agent Based Pervasive Healthcare System: A First Scalability Study
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_19, author={Johannes Krampf and Stefano Bromuri and Michael Schumacher and Juan Ruiz}, title={An Agent Based Pervasive Healthcare System: A First Scalability Study}, proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, M\^{a}laga, Spain, November 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-HEALTH}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Personal Health Systems Agents Pervasive Healthcare}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_19} }- Johannes Krampf
Stefano Bromuri
Michael Schumacher
Juan Ruiz
Year: 2012
An Agent Based Pervasive Healthcare System: A First Scalability Study
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_19
Abstract
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) occurs during pregnancy due to an increased resistance to insulin caused by the growth of the baby. It appears after the 24th week of pregnancy and it is treated with diet counselling and insulin treatment. In this paper we present the complete implementation of a Pervasive Healthcare System (PHS) based on intelligent agents to support continuous monitoring of pregnant women affected by GDM. Our infrastructure is composed of a mobile interface connecting to a distributed multi-agent system which in turns is connected to a patient management system. This stores the data produced during the monitoring phase and present them to the doctors in charge of the patient. Our system’s scalability is then evaluated to show the strong and weak points of our approach.