IDG Contributor Network: Robotic process automation for healthcare

Autonomics ultimately aims to develop computer systems capable of self-management and was started by IBM in 2001. These self-regulating autonomic components are driving the research of multi-agent systems (MAS). MAS are computerized systems composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents within an environment. Robotic process automation (RPA) is capable of automating activities (by creating software agents) that once required human judgment. This is the evolution of automation: the automatio