Role of Mobile Agent in Medical Information Retrieval in Mass Casualty Scene – A Performance Study in Web Environment

Addressing health disorders at the early stage during mass casualty is one of the important issues to be thrown light nowadays. If mass casualty occurs in remote locations where proper health care equipments or analysis of medical information is not available, a special team must be appointed to monitor and control it. When an emergency occurs, especially in mass casualty incidents, lots of victims need medical attention. It is obvious that the faster and accurate the acquisition and analysis of data, the more effective the answer could be given. That is, the needs will be attended as early as possible and the affected population could be reduced. The common point in all cases is the analysis of information. Around it lies, the importance of responding to the emergency. Mobile agents play a vital role in communication between different remote locations. If the special team needs information from these locations or the remotely located medical officers needs information from the special team, mobile agents are useful. This paper discusses the use of mobile agent technology as an enabler of open distributed e-Health applications. More precisely, it describes the experiences based on this technology: concerning emergency scenarios. Key-Words: Mass Casualty, Emergency, Mobile Agents, Client-Server, Web Environment, Response Time, Throughput.