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.

加拿大人口迅速老龄化，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方法。在本研究中，每个服务的可用时隙数量有限。这些时间段会发布在网站上，并向所有门诊患者发送一组电子邮件。该电子邮件指示这些人通过使用该网站来表明他们的服务要求。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。每个捆绑包由多个时隙组成。每个门诊患者都有一个组合的服务优先级值，以指示相对于所有患者的紧急程度。事实上，优先权值类似于投标人愿意在拍卖中支付的价格。为了竞标时段，门诊患者必须考虑与其需求相关的特殊限制，例如捆绑包的长度、时段数量和偏好。