A MULTI-AGENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR BIOPROFILE COLLECTION

The huge development of the information systems in the last decades has, in many aspects, not been followed by the medical industry mainly due to legal and ethical issues that influence this specific area. Information sharing is in fact difficult and often impossible when we deal with patients data. Therefore, the creation of large centralized databases containing information about all the patients is hard to conceive and probably will never be possible. As a proposal for an alternative data sharing model we developed MAMIS Multi-Agent Medical Information System – that is a completely distributed system where each healthcare unit containing medical information is autonomous and controls entirely its data. Data sharing is achieved by request, with each agent that requiring information about a patient requesting it to the other agents trough adequate messages that when received by the peers are evaluated and replied only when adequate. This model preserves the independence of the different entities but creates the possibility for selective sharing of medical information. In this paper we will present the general architecture of the system and the first experiences on patient’s Bioprofile collection and analysis.