Agent-Based Information Management in an Emergency Room

Clinical care is characterized by the distribution of data among personnel, locations, and various types of media. Clinical information systems (CIS) should provide help in collecting, preparing and presenting data. The dispersal of information emerges as a problem in clinical information systems especially when decisions have to be made with emergency patients. The primary goal of the research project AGIL (agent based information logistics) is to develop a multiagent system that supports the clinical information flow. The secondary goal is to explore and generalize an agile development methodology for such multi-agent systems. A tool for the modeling of processes and the development of the software is developed.