Online Auction-Based Scheduling of Health Care Services for Outpatients

基于在线拍卖的门诊医疗服务安排

• 批准号: 262075-2013
• 负责人: Zhu, Haibin
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: Nipissing University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=547975
• 关键词: Online; Auction; Based; Scheduling; Health

Canada's rapidly aging population is placing ever increasing demands on limited health care services, especially in more remote regions of the country. Optimized scheduling is the only way to meet this challenge. In this research, each service has a limited number of available time slots. These time slots are posted on a website and a group email is sent to all outpatients. The email directs these individuals to indicate their service requirements by using the website. Outpatients as bidders express their requests as bundles of service time slots. Each bundle consists of several time slots. Each outpatient has a composed priority value for a service to indicate the level of urgency relative to all patients. In fact, the priority value is similar to the price a bidder is willing to pay in an auction. To bid for time slots, outpatients must consider special constraints relative to their needs, e.g., length of the bundles, number of slots, and preferences.

加拿大迅速老龄化的人口对有限的医疗保健服务提出了越来越高的要求，特别是在该国较偏远的地区。优化调度是应对这一挑战的唯一途径。在这项研究中，每个服务都有有限数量的可用时隙。这些时间段公布在一个网站上，并向所有门诊病人发送一封集体电子邮件。该电子邮件指示这些人通过使用网站来说明他们的服务要求。门诊病人作为投标人将他们的请求表达为服务时段的捆绑。每个束由若干时隙组成。每个门诊病人都有一个组成的服务优先级值，以指示相对于所有病人的紧急程度。事实上，优先权价值类似于投标人在拍卖中愿意支付的价格。为了争取时间段，门诊患者必须考虑与其需求相关的特殊限制，例如，束的长度、槽的数量和偏好。