A survey of agent-based intelligent decision support systems to support clinical management and research

The research into agent-based intelligent decision support systems is important to the medical industry because these systems can be used to improve the quality of healthcare in many ways. The areas these systems can be used in are diverse from the storage of medical records to the examination and evaluation of real-time data gathered from monitors. These systems are helpful to doctors and nurses in the diagnosis and treatment of patient with all kinds of conditions. This paper is a survey of the current research into agentbased intelligent decision support systems to support Clinical Management and Research, in order to first determine the current state of research in the area, second to help derive the key features and problems with these systems in the medical industry, and thirdly to use these key features and problems to explain how the current research would effect the development of a neonatal intensive care unit agent-based intelligent decision support system.