An Agent Based Framework for Healthcare Teamwork

As team-based healthcare delivery becomes more ubiquitous we need to develop approaches that characterize different contexts of teamwork to enable us to better design HIT to support healthcare teams. This research helps address that need by using the O-MaSE method to develop a multi-agent framework for healthcare teamwork. Our framework enables us to characterize a patient case as needing a multi or interdisciplinary team and then describes the structural, behavioral and interface configurations needed to support healthcare teamwork for the patient case. The research presented in this paper helps us understand the complex nature of healthcare teamwork and HIT design to support it.

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