PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH

Chung-Ho Choi, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu, Ian T. Cheung

2010

Abstract

With the increasing expectation from patients and the regulations enacted by the government, exploring ways to shorten patient journey has caught increasing attention. Patient journey optimization typically involves the coordination of treatment scheduling at multiple medical units. This decentralized nature of the problem makes conventional centralized operation research methods hard to be applied and motivates the use of the multi-agent approach. In this paper, we focus on cancer patient treatment. We model patients and medical units as autonomous agents which interact locally via a bidding process and a coordination process for patient journey optimization. With reference to a dataset containing more than five thousand cancer patient journeys, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm under different settings of implementation has been evaluated via experimental simulations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Choi C., K. Cheung W., Liu J. and T. Cheung I. (2010). PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 181-186. DOI: 10.5220/0002693901810186

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Chung-Ho Choi and William K. Cheung and Jiming Liu and Ian T. Cheung},
title={PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={181-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002693901810186},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - PATIENT JOURNEY OPTIMIZATION USING A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Choi C.
AU - K. Cheung W.
AU - Liu J.
AU - T. Cheung I.
PY - 2010
SP - 181
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0002693901810186