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even be a map of the affected area with color dots indicating the status (color) and the
position of the victim within the map, which will help the emergency organization and
management staff to have a clearer idea of the distribution of victims.
5.4.5 Medical Transportation
After the collection of the victim, personal data from him can be obtained, either be-
cause the victim was able to give any of its data or because identification documentation
has been found. In this case the new data can be reported inside the agent reading the
RFID of the electronic triage tag. Within the rescue vehicles there is a laptop which
also allows to update the personal data and/or medicines and treatments provided to the
patient.
5.4.6 Shared Medical Record
While the patient is transferred to a hospital or medical center a reservation and prepa-
ration of resources can be made. This task may be automatically done by the agent in
the area of the emergency. It can contact with the agent in charge of the hospital man-
agement and establish an agreement with the institution where the victim is transferred.
After the ambulance has picked the victim, the time it takes to get to the hospital may
be foreseen so when the victim arrives everything will be ready with the materials and
resources needed.
Moreover, if it has been able to collect patient data and added them to the mobile
agent, during transit from the collection of the victim to the hospital, he may take ad-
vantage of fixed wireless networks, for example, to pass this information to the agent in
the hospital.
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Conclusions
Along this chapter, three eHealth applications using mobile agents have been described.
They have shown how mobile agent technology can be successfully applied in this do-
main, solving some important issues such as interoperability or asynchronous commu-
nication.
The first case was based on the integration of medical information. This system
provides a global integration of agent-based VEPR systems through secure and stan-
dardized mobility and communication mechanism. The system is focused towards a
reliable intra-institution integration, allowing a medical doctor from a given institution
to have access to all the patient information that can be spread over different medical
institutions.
This system makes clear the advantages that agent mobility and agent-driven security
add to medical information gathering systems, promoting free patient roaming, up-to-
date distributed VEPR access, and other new functionalities such as inter-institution
secure information exchange.
The second analysed scenario was a practical application of mobile agents to solve
the particular problem of getting critical information about a victim before arriving
to a hospital for treatment. It makes it possible to asynchronously retrieve significant
information (Virtual Electronic Patients Medical Record for Emergencies, VEPMRE),
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