A Modeling and Simulation Framework for Health Care Systems

作者：Augusto, Vincent^*; Xie, Xiaolan

来源：IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems , 2014, 44(1): 30-46.

DOI：10.1109/TSMC.2013.2239640

• Health care
• modeling
• Petri nets (PNs)
• rapid prototyping
• simulation

In this paper, we propose a new modeling methodology named MedPRO for addressing organization problems of health care systems. It is based on a metamodel with three different views: process view (care pathways of patients), resource view (activities of relevant resources), and organization view (dependence and organization of resources). The resulting metamodel can be instantiated for a specific health care system and be converted into an executable model for simulation by means of a special class of Petri nets (PNs), called Health Care Petri Nets (HCPNs). HCPN models also serve as a basis for short-term planning and scheduling of health care activities. As a result, the MedPRO methodology leads to a fast-prototyping tool for easy and rigorous modeling and simulation of health care systems. A case study is presented to show the benefits of the MedPRO methodology.

• 出版日期2014-1
• 单位上海交通大学