An Agent-Based System for Medication Adherence Monitoring and Patient Care

摘要

Modern information technology along with wireless sensors and wireless body area network (WBAN) has many applications in patient care, telemedicine and health care. We have developed an intelligent agent based mobile application for the monitoring and care of patients. The service includes continuous monitoring of body sensor values, monitoring adherence to taking medicines, controlling medicine dispensing devices, wirelessly sending data to an intelligent and secure server, condition based medical treatment by sending information to the appropriate caregiver (e.g. doctor, nurse or ambulance) and creating the effect of a doctor being always available for the patient. A network of body and medication adherence monitoring sensors, facilitates intelligent mobile agents to collect the sensor values and update the patient database. Finally, we describe an architecture solution (front end and back end) with various services and relevant technologies for implementation with intelligent glucometer and medicine dispenser equipped with RFID.