{"title":"Software agent based approach towards tele-electrocardiography","authors":"P. Ganguly, P. Ray, G. Low","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2000.856911","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"TeIemedicine involves the integration of information, telecommunications, human-machine and healthcare technologies. One of the aspects of telecardiology, known as tele-electrocardiography, deploys electrocardiography (ECG) machines to transmit ECGs over networks. Tele-electrocardiography diagnosis and ECG interpretation is simple, reliable and cost-effective. As different parts of this tele-electrocardiography system work on different computing environments, software interoperability is a major issue. Software agent technology supports a heterogeneous computing environment. As this technology reacts dynamically to adverse conditions, it is suitable for the development of fault-tolerant distributed systems. Additionally, agent technology represents the intentions, desires and resources of the participants - so it can be effectively used in online healthcare applications. The features of software agent technology are potentially suitable for the development of interoperable telemedicine systems. This paper presents a software agent-based interoperable scheme for tele-electrocardiography applications.","PeriodicalId":189930,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 13th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. CBMS 2000","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 13th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. CBMS 2000","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2000.856911","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
TeIemedicine involves the integration of information, telecommunications, human-machine and healthcare technologies. One of the aspects of telecardiology, known as tele-electrocardiography, deploys electrocardiography (ECG) machines to transmit ECGs over networks. Tele-electrocardiography diagnosis and ECG interpretation is simple, reliable and cost-effective. As different parts of this tele-electrocardiography system work on different computing environments, software interoperability is a major issue. Software agent technology supports a heterogeneous computing environment. As this technology reacts dynamically to adverse conditions, it is suitable for the development of fault-tolerant distributed systems. Additionally, agent technology represents the intentions, desires and resources of the participants - so it can be effectively used in online healthcare applications. The features of software agent technology are potentially suitable for the development of interoperable telemedicine systems. This paper presents a software agent-based interoperable scheme for tele-electrocardiography applications.