MedNet/AMAs - Adaptive Medical Agents for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

Adaptive Medical Agents (AMAs, pronounced "amaze") provide robust, timely, decision support for emergency care providers in the field. These agents constantly monitor the physiological status of an at-risk population, anticipate requests for analyses and offer both probabilistic assessments and potential courses of treatment. Using a distributed, decentralized architecture, AMAs will exploit broadband communications where and when they are available, but will be capable of working autonomously, when conditions limit connections to outside resources. Development of the system architecture to support the AMA and to allow the maximum degree of flexibility, habitability, graceful degradation, and performance is the main challenge of Phase I of this proposal.