Information Retrieval System Based on Multi-agent for Healthcare

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.