Abstract:
The hospital staff serve as patient registration
and appointment scheduling in today’s healthcare
domain. It makes time consuming and somehow
hectic. Usually, patients have to come to the hospital
and have to fill out patient registration forms and
have to wait appointment. Over the past, most of
works have been done by using online healthcare
appointment system like m-commerce, e-commerce,
telemedicine etc. Multi-agent system is most suitable
for healthcare paradigm, as the properties of agent
based systems deals with heterogeneous multiple
agents. This information retrieval system based on
multi-agent contains agents that have information
about the personal medical history, the hospital,
departments of each hospital and doctors of each
department. This system provides as an agent that
gives the patient by selecting desired hospital,
desired date and desired time, etc. This multi-agent
based system collaborates with the agents of hospital,
department and doctor for that appointment. The
personal agent allows the access the offered services
for appointment and view medical history. The visited
user can search and view doctor information with
time and date, hospital information and health news.
This system is implemented with PHP programming
language, for providing a robust, user friendly
appointment for the patient.