Patient assignment scheduling in a cloud healthcare system based on petri net and greedy-based heuristic

ABSTRACT

Integrated system has been identified as one of must-do strategies in future healthcare. This paper focuses on a cloud healthcare system, which is a novel integrated healthcare system by the technique of Internet in very recent years. A Petri net is presented to describe the relationship among medical process and resources in this integrated healthcare system. To allocate the bottleneck medical resource of this system efficiently, a patient assignment scheduling problem is investigated and studied, in detail, a mathematical model is established and a greedy-based heuristic algorithm is designed. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm.

KEYWORDS:

• Integrated healthcare system
• cloud healthcare system
• patient assignment scheduling
• Petri net
• greedy-based heuristic

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [61703290,71671032];the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [N160402002];