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An Advanced Platform for Managing Complications of Chronic Diseases

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2009)

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This paper describes a generic platform for telemedicine services aimed at supporting chronic outpatients. The framework comprises a server agent and several cell phones as mobile agents through which patients and caregivers within their families may input data and receive back suggestions and advice. Mobile agents and server are endowed with domain specific knowledge in order to support users in a flexible way structured on multiple levels.

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  1. Biomedical Informatics Laboratory, Department of Computer and Systems Science, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Davide Capozzi & Giordano Lanzola

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  1. Davide Capozzi
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  1. University of Verona, Department of Computer Science, Ca’ Vignal 2, strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Carlo Combi

  2. Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Yuval Shahar

  3. Department of Medical Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105, Amsterdam, AZ, The Netherlands

    Ameen Abu-Hanna

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Capozzi, D., Lanzola, G. (2009). An Advanced Platform for Managing Complications of Chronic Diseases. In: Combi, C., Shahar, Y., Abu-Hanna, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_27

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