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Authors: Chung-Ho Choi 1 ; William K. Cheung 1 ; Jiming Liu 1 and Ian T. Cheung 2

Affiliations: 1 Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ; 2 Quality and Safety Division, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

Keyword(s): Multi-agent systems, Patient journey optimization, Scheduling algorithms, Health information systems.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Biomedical Engineering ; Health Information Systems ; Healthcare Management Systems ; Support for Clinical Decision-Making

Abstract: With the increasing expectation from patients and the regulations enacted by the government, exploring ways to shorten patient journey has caught increasing attention. Patient journey optimization typically involves the coordination of treatment scheduling at multiple medical units. This decentralized nature of the problem makes conventional centralized operation research methods hard to be applied and motivates the use of the multi-agent approach. In this paper, we focus on cancer patient treatment. We model patients and medical units as autonomous agents which interact locally via a bidding process and a coordination process for patient journey optimization. With reference to a dataset containing more than five thousand cancer patient journeys, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm under different settings of implementation has been evaluated via experimental simulations.

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Paper citation in several formats:
Choi, C.; K. Cheung, W.; Liu, J. and T. Cheung, I. (2010). PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics (BIOSTEC 2010) - HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-674-016-0; ISSN 2184-4305, SciTePress, pages 181-186. DOI: 10.5220/0002693901810186

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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics (BIOSTEC 2010) - HEALTHINF
TI - PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
IS - 2184-4305
AU - Choi, C.
AU - K. Cheung, W.
AU - Liu, J.
AU - T. Cheung, I.
PY - 2010
SP - 181
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0002693901810186
PB - SciTePress