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.

根据我们去年完成的参与项目EGP 462181-13，我们发现人员调度方面存在许多挑战，包括数据标准化，数据评估，人员分配和约束理由。在为可用的医生分配可用的时间段时，有许多不同的限制。事实是，没有一次安排可以满足所有约束。只有手动工作，人类的调度程序可能需要几天甚至数周的时间来调整参与人员的不同要求，以获得令人满意的调度计划。建立医师调度助理工具是满足此要求的一种有希望的方法。交互式人员调度助理工具的目的是建立一个系统，以特定的约束来考虑特定的性能度量，并根据特定参数进行优化。 一般调度是一个非常具有挑战性的问题，通常称为非多项式（NP） - 硬问题。因此，世界上的研究人员努力研究各种方法以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种实用的调度软件的原因。提出的工具是公制公司的绝对增值产品。挑战是：1）算法本身耗时； 2）某些优化工具太复杂了，无法理解和学会应用于现实管理的管理； 3）与人类调度程序的有效且用户友好的互动； 4）人类调度员接受的权衡以考虑尽可能多的 医师的要求固有地相互冲突。