Staff scheduling at healthcare facility
AssigneeIssio Solutions, Inc.
InventorArne Brock-Utne
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Abstract
Provided are computing devices and methods for determining a total number of needed staff members at a healthcare facility for a day, which determination calculates for each scheduled patient a likelihood of presence at the healthcare facility at different time points taking as input various factors specific to the patient, and the procedure or the personnel involved.
Claims10
A system for determining a total number of needed staff members at a healthcare facility, comprising a processor, a memory, and program code which, when executed by the processor, configures the system to:
- receive a schedule for a day that comprises a plurality of patients, each having a scheduled start time and a scheduled procedure,
- compute, for each patient, a likelihood of presence at the healthcare facility at a time point, taking as input (a) the scheduled start time, (b) a distribution of duration for the type of the procedure and (c) one or more characteristics of the procedure, staff members, or the patient,
- calculate, for the patient at the time point, a number of needed staff members, taking as input the type of the procedure and the likelihood of the presence, and
- determine, for the time point, a total number of needed staff members by summing the number of needed staff members of each patient.
A method for determining a total number of needed staff members at a healthcare facility, comprising:
- receiving, at a computer, a schedule for a day that comprises a plurality of patients, each having a scheduled start time and a scheduled procedure,
- computing, for each patient, a likelihood of presence at the healthcare facility at a time point, taking as input (a) the scheduled start time, (b) a distribution of duration for the type of the procedure and (c) one or more characteristics of the procedure, staff members, or the patient,
- calculating, for the patient at the time point, a number of needed staff members, taking as input the type of the procedure and the likelihood of the presence, and
- determining, for the time point, a total number of needed staff members by summing the number of needed staff members of each patient.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code which, when executed by a computer, configures the computer to carry out a method to determine a total number of needed staff members at a healthcare facility, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a computer, a schedule for a day that comprises a plurality of patients, each having a scheduled start time and a scheduled procedure,
- computing, for each patient, a likelihood of presence at the healthcare facility at a time point, taking as input (a) the scheduled start time, (b) a distribution of duration for the type of the procedure and (c) one or more characteristics of the procedure, staff members, or the patient,
- calculating, for the patient at the time point, a number of needed staff members, taking as input the type of the procedure and the likelihood of the presence, and
- determining, for the time point, a total number of needed staff members by summing the number of needed staff members of each patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.