Title :
Beyond Automation: Hybrid Human-Computer Decision Support Systems in Hospitals
Author :
Niemann, Christoph ; Eymann, Torsten
fDate :
March 31 2008-April 4 2008
Abstract :
Scheduling in hospitals is a decision problem that relies on encoded information (such as room assignments or diagnoses) as much as on non-encoded information (medical knowledge). To support clinical scheduling with information systems, both types of information and their respective carriers have to be incorporated in combination, thus always requiring a "human-in-the-loop\´\´, which prohibits full autonomy. In contrast to other proposals in Autonomic Computing, this paper makes a case for a hybrid human-computer decision support system to support scheduling in hospitals that combines humans\´ ability to improvise and to assess a situation, with computers\´ ability to communicate quickly to achieve emergent self-organization. Furthermore, the paper outlines an approach to evaluate such a system.
Keywords :
Automation; Costs; Decision support systems; Hospitals; Humans; Information systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Processor scheduling; Radiofrequency identification; Autonomic Computing; Hybrid Decision Support System; Multiagent System; Scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2008. EASE 2008. Fifth IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-3140-7
DOI :
10.1109/EASe.2008.10