Evaluating the Dispatching Policies for a Regional Network of Emergency Departments Exploiting Health Care Big Data. Aringhieri, R., Dell'Anna, D., Duma, D., & Sonnessa, M. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data, MOD 2017, Revised Selected Papers, volume 10710, pages 549–561, 2017.
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The Emergency Department (ED) is responsible to provide medical and surgical care to patients arriving at the hospital in need of immediate care. At the regional level, the EDs system can be seen as a network of EDs cooperating to maximise the outputs (number of patients served, average waiting time, ...) and outcomes in terms of the provided care quality. In this paper we discuss how quantitative analysis based on health care big data can provide a tool to evaluate the dispatching policies for the regional network of emergency departments: the basic idea is to exploit clusters of EDs in such a way to fairly distribute the workload. We present a simulation model based on the case study of the Piedmont in Italy. The model is powered by the knowledge provided by the analysis of the regional health care big data.

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