Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement

Modeling healthcare components and systems to understand component interactions is considered one of the more challenging simulation and modeling problems for software agent systems. This extensive reference provides theoretical frameworks and the most current empirical research medical professionals use to implement multi-agent systems. Among the topics covered are: agency in healthcare system analysis, agent-based healthcare modeling, and collaborative environments in mental health, economic efficiency in healthcare, healthcare multi-agent simulation systems, healthcare systems, operating room simulation, physician-patient support system, population modeling system, and probabilistic neural network. The book will interest medical professionals, information systems designers, application developers, and others such as academic, research, and medical libraries. Editors Paranjape (electronic systems engineering, U. of Regina) and Sadanand (economics, U. of Guelph) and 27 co-authors contributed to the book. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)