Guest Editor's Introduction: On the Evolution of Applying Agent Technology to Healthcare

This article is part of a special issue on Intelligent Agents in Healthcare. Agent technology is currently being applied to solve different kinds of problems in the healthcare domain. This special issue presents six articles that discuss different applications, in areas as diverse as automatic e-health service discovery, use of argumentation techniques in organ transplants, and the implementation of agent-based mechanisms that ensure the confidentiality and privacy of sensitive medical data.