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Agency in Health Care System Modeling and Analysis

Agency in Health Care System Modeling and Analysis

Raman Paranjape, Simerjit Gill
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781605667720|ISBN10: 1605667722|EISBN13: 9781605667737
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0.ch004
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Paranjape, Raman, and Simerjit Gill. "Agency in Health Care System Modeling and Analysis." Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement, edited by Raman Paranjape and Asha Sadanand, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 45-68. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0.ch004

APA

Paranjape, R. & Gill, S. (2010). Agency in Health Care System Modeling and Analysis. In R. Paranjape & A. Sadanand (Eds.), Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement (pp. 45-68). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0.ch004

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Paranjape, Raman, and Simerjit Gill. "Agency in Health Care System Modeling and Analysis." In Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement, edited by Raman Paranjape and Asha Sadanand, 45-68. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter examines the paradigm that a health care system’s behavior may be examined using an agent simulation in order to illuminate its macroscopic characteristics and the effects of policy on its over all operation. Further, if the individual components are well articulated, the component behavior may be also studied. Health care systems in North America are generally regulated by various processes and mechanisms in order to provide orderly access to, and control of, the health care system. While all processes are designed to be fair and equitable, in many ways the system can not be examined or optimized because the risk, that making changes to the system might result in degraded services, is too great to permit making even simple changes. In this context we propose the development of a health care system model in which agents mimic the behavior of the key components of the system. These components interact and engage each other in a manor analogous to the operation of the health care system. The formulation of such a system is, by its very nature, an extremely complex process, and necessitates development in components or units. In this chapter we present the first components of such a system. Each component has unique and complex behaviors. These components will, with additional development, form the basic structure of a health care system model. Specifically we present results from the development of a diabetic patient agent model, the development of an agent-based neurosurgery ward bed allocation system, and the development of an agent-based scheduling system that may be used to allocate resources within the health care system.

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