An interactive physician scheduling tool

交互式医生调度工具

• 批准号: 485195-2015
• 负责人: Zhu, Haibin
• 金额: $ 0.91万
• 依托单位: Nipissing University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Plus Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=584789
• 关键词: interactive; physician; scheduling; tool

Based on the Engage Project EGP 462181-13 we completed last year, we find that there are many challenges in personnel scheduling including data standardization, data evaluations, personnel assignment, and constraint justifications. There are many different constraints in assigning available time slots to available physicians. The fact is that no one-time scheduling can meet all the constraints. With only manual work, human schedulers may take days or even weeks to adjust the different requirements from involved persons to acquire a satisfactory scheduling scheme. To build a physician scheduling assistant tool is a promising way to meet this requirement. The objective of an Interactive Personnel Scheduling Assistant Tool is to build a system for which particular measures of performance are considered with special constraints and each interaction is optimized based on specific parameters. General scheduling is a very challenging problem, normally called Non-Polynomial (NP) - hard problem. Therefore, the researchers in the world try hard to investigate variety of methods to improve the efficiency of scheduling algorithms. This is also the reason why there is no such practical scheduling software in the world until now. The proposed tool is a definitely value-adding product for the MetricAid Inc. The challenges are: 1) the algorithm itself is time-consuming; 2) some optimization tools are too complex to understand and learn to be applied to the real-world management; 3) effective and user-friendly interactions with the human schedulers; and 4) trade-offs accepted by human schedulers to consider as many as possible the physicians' requirements that are inherently conflicting with each other.

基于我们去年完成的Engage项目EGP 462181-13，我们发现在人员调度方面存在许多挑战，包括数据标准化、数据评估、人员分配和约束合理性。在将可用时隙分配给可用医师时存在许多不同的约束。事实上，没有一个一次性的调度可以满足所有的约束。仅通过手工工作，人类调度员可能需要数天甚至数周来调整来自所涉及人员的不同要求以获得令人满意的调度方案。建立一个医生调度辅助工具是一个很有前途的方式来满足这一要求。交互式人员调度辅助工具的目标是建立一个系统，该系统考虑了特定的性能指标和特殊的约束条件，并根据特定的参数优化每个交互。 一般调度问题是一个非常具有挑战性的问题，通常被称为非多项式（NP）-难问题。因此，国内外的研究人员都在努力研究各种方法来提高调度算法的效率。这也是为什么到目前为止世界上还没有这样实用的调度软件的原因。建议的工具是一个绝对的增值产品的MetricAid公司。这些挑战是：1）算法本身是耗时的; 2）一些优化工具太复杂而无法理解和学习，无法应用于现实世界的管理; 3）与人类决策者的有效和用户友好的交互;以及4）人类决策者接受的权衡，以考虑尽可能多的 医生的要求是相互冲突的。