Distributed Resource Allocation for Healthcare Systems
Healthcare costs in most developed economies have grown dramatically over the last few decades.It is widely believed that the inefficiency of healthcare institutions has contributed to this rise.In response to this belief,much scholarly attention has been devoted to allocating resources for efficient operation of healthcare institutions.Traditionally,centralized methods are applied to such problems.However,the inherent,decentralized nature of many hospitals for the same healthcare corporation drives the investigation on decentralized or distributed methods.This paper explores the application of a linear and a nonlinear pricing model for healthcare resource allocation in specific,staffing configurations.A simulation model for hospital Emergency Room (ER) is developed to collect the performance data.The data is then analyzed to construct Linear Programming (LP) model for each ER staffing configuration problem.Two pricing models are employed to find the equilibrium solutions between two ERs.
resource allocation healthcare simulation
Shao-Jen Weng Teresa Wu Gerald Mackulak John Fowler
Department of Industrial EngineeringArizona State UniversityAZ,85287,USA Department of Industrial Engineering Arizona State University AZ,85287,USA
国际会议
北京
英文
2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）