A mobile agent-based approach to building mobile systems for health care management

Mobile health care management systems are in its infancy. Research is underway to develop systems that will provide authorized users (e.g. doctors, patients, and pharmacists) with convenient, fast and reliable access to health care management using wireless mobile devices. The main research objective is to address the data communications issues in wireless mobile computing environments. In this applied research, co-sponsored by IBM and Hewlett-Packard, we have studied the issues, and explored mobile agent-based approach to address those issues. We have developed a new mobile agent-based architecture for mobile health care management systems, and built a prototype of the new system. This paper provides the latest results of this applied research. It also presents our new mobile agent-based architecture and the demonstration prototype of the new system using this architecture.