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Abstract — This paper proposes to combine Medical Guidelines with Multi-Agent Systems in order to obtain a system that could be used in a real medical environment for improving the current use/management of the resources. We propose in this paper an agent-based architecture, which allows to represent different entities in a medical centre and the relationships between them. A medical guideline specifies sequences of actions that could be performed in front of a particular pathology. The proposed system allows doctors to follow these guidelines when performing medical visits, and to access the results of clinical tests stored in an electronic medical record. Several service agents are connected to the physical resources providing clinical data of patients, which is added automatically to the medical record. All agents (internal of the system and user’s personal agents) have their own knowledge and some roles to accomplish. This paper is focused on a healthcare domain, but this approach could be adapted to other domains. Moreover, another goal of this work is to illustrate that our system is flexible and scalable, and it could be improved with new services/features if required. I.

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