ABSTRACT
Ubiquitous health care monitoring systems in the field of e-hcalth enable immediate analysis of individual physiological data and personalized patient feedback in real time using alarms and reminders. The systems monitor vital signs such as ECG (electrocardiography), EMG (electromyography), oxygen saturation, respiration, activity, and temperature. Patients can be remotely and ubiquitously assessed, diagnosed, and treated. In the case of rapidly deteriorating medical conditions, the systems can automatically notify associated medical staff by making mobile phone call or sending an SMS alarm to provide the patient with first-level medical suppmt. In this research we have developed a highly distributed information infrastructure for ubiquitous health care (UHC) by using Intelligent Agent paradigm, which is able to notify the responsible care-provider of abnormality automatically, offer distance medical advice, and perform continuous health monitoring for those who need it. To confront the issues of interopcrability, scalability, and openness in heterogeneous ehealth environments, a FIP A2000 standard compliant agent development platform - JADE (Java Agent Development Environment) was adopted for the implementation of the proposed intelligent multi-agent based UHC system.
