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.

加拿大迅速衰老的人口正在对有限的医疗服务，尤其是在该国更偏远地区的有限医疗服务的需求不断提高。优化计划是应对这一挑战的唯一方法。在这项研究中，每项服务的可用时插槽数量有限。这些时间插槽发布在网站上，并将组电子邮件发送到所有门诊病人。该电子邮件指示这些人通过使用网站来指示其服务要求。竞标者时门诊患者表示他们的要求为服务时间段。每个捆绑包由几个时间插槽组成。每个门诊病人都有服务的优先级值，以指示相对于所有患者的紧迫水平。实际上，优先价值类似于投标人愿意在拍卖中支付的价格。要竞标时间插槽，门诊病人必须考虑相对于其需求的特殊限制，例如束的长度，插槽数量和偏好。