Method for adaptive transportation services scheduling for healthcare cost reduction
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsJin LIU, Eran SIMHON, Reza SHARIFI SEDEH
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Abstract
A method for scheduling patients for medical appointments, including: predicting the no-show risk and no-show cost for the patients; forecasting the cost of a transportation assistance service for the patients; optimizing the scheduling of patients based upon cost of the transportation assistance service, the no-show risk, and the no-show cost; selecting a population of patients to receive the transportation assistance service; and scheduling the population of patients for their medical appointment and transportation assistance service.
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A method for scheduling patients for medical appointments, comprising:
- predicting the no-show risk and no-show cost for the patients;
- forecasting the cost of a transportation assistance service for the patients;
- optimizing the scheduling of patients based upon cost of the transportation assistance service, the no-show risk, and the no-show cost;
- selecting a population of patients to receive the transportation assistance service;
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- scheduling the population of patients for their medical appointment and transportation assistance service.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for scheduling patients for medical appointments, comprising:
- instructions for predicting the no-show risk and no-show cost for the patients;
- instructions for forecasting the cost of a transportation assistance service for the patients;
- instructions for optimizing the scheduling of patients based upon cost of the transportation assistance service, the no-show risk, and the no-show cost;
- instructions for selecting a population of patients to receive the transportation assistance service;
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- instructions for scheduling the population of patients for their medical appointment and transportation assistance service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.