A Game Theory Approach for Deploying Medical Resources in Emergency Department

Wu, Cheng Kuang; Wu, Dachrahn

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6753-2_2

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“…Researchers eager to understand the behavior of different agent representations within the healthcare system use AI [30], game theory [1,28], multiagents system [5] and big data [16] which are used to predict and understand behaviors within systems. However, little effort has been made to study the dynamics of cooperation and other decision making in the healthcare domain, which usually involves different actors in the decision making processes.…”

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Toward Understanding the Interplay between Public and Private Healthcare Providers and Patients: An Agent-based Simulation Approach

Alalawi

Zeng

2020

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligen

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Few modelling studies have been carried out to investigate patients' involvement in the decision-making process in a healthcare system. Here we perform theoretical and simulation analysis of a healthcare business model involving three populations: Public Healthcare Providers, Private Healthcare Providers and Patients. The analysis contributes to healthcare economic modelling by analyzing the dynamics and emergence of cooperative behavior of agents within the three populations. Resorting to agent-based simulations, we examine the effect of increasing behavioural mutation and providers' capacity on patients' cooperative behaviour. We show that the former introduces more randomness in agents' behaviors enabling cooperation to emerge in more difficult conditions. Moreover, when the providers' capacity to meet patients' demand is limited, patients exhibit low levels of cooperation, implying a more difficult cooperation dilemma in a healthcare system that needs addressing.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Understanding the Interplay between Public and Private Healthcare Providers and Patients: An Agent-based Simulation Approach

Alalawi

Zeng

2020

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligen

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“…(Brekke and Sørgard, 2007) argued that having a blurred line between the private and public healthcare providers within the NHS might lead to imbalances in the costs of provided health services and a drift towards privatisation. While (Wu et al, 2016) developed their proposed set of various noncooperative and cooperative games for the Emergency Department response based on different types of patients. Another research investigates different dilemmas based on a three-population EGT framework involving the cost for prescribed antibiotics via healthcare providers (Bettinger, 2016).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%