Agent-Based Patient Scheduling in Hospitals

Torsten O. Paulussen (), Anja Zöller (), Franz Rothlauf (), Armin Heinzl (), Lars Braubach (), Alexander Pokahr () and Winfried Lamersdorf ()
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Torsten O. Paulussen: Universität Mannheim
Anja Zöller: Universität Mannheim
Franz Rothlauf: Universität Mannheim
Armin Heinzl: Universität Mannheim
Lars Braubach: Universität Hamburg
Alexander Pokahr: Universität Hamburg
Winfried Lamersdorf: Universität Hamburg

Chapter 4 in Multiagent Engineering, 2006, pp 255-275 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Patient scheduling in hospitals is a very complex task. This complexity stems from the distributed structure of hospitals and the dynamics of the treatment process. Hospitals consist of various autonomous, administratively distinct units which are visited by the patients according to their individual disease. However, the pathways (the needed medical actions) and the medical priorities (the health condition of the patients) are likely to change due to new findings about the diseases of the patients during examination. Moreover, the durations of the treatments and examinations are stochastic. Additional problems for patient scheduling in hospitals arise from complications and emergencies. Thus, patient scheduling in hospitals requires a distributed and flexible approach. To this end, a flexible, agent-based approach to patient scheduling is developed in this chapter. After a description of the addressed patient scheduling problem, the proposed mechanism for patient-scheduling is presented and evaluated.

Keywords: Time Slot; Multiagent System; Coordination Mechanism; Emergency Patient; Patient Schedule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32062-8_14

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