IPRO 372 Spring 2004
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IPRO 372 Spring 2004
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Between 44 and 98 thousand deaths occur yearly due to medical error. In a hospital setting doctors, technicians, managers, new technology and big money all collide into a heap healthcare, data, and expenditure. Deeply buried within this pile is the concept of medical informatics. In the world of informatics, practitioners are pinned against management and new technology is handed to technicians in hopes of cutting costs and increasing performance. Patient data is everywhere; every practitioner that treats that patient must know it, ranging from doctors to nurses to the anesthesiologist or x-ray technician in another department. The hospital must also use scheduling to make use of its resources (doctors, equipment, rooms...). This requires a master schedule which must be modified frequently according to patient conditions and resource availability. All this with the pressure of making enough money to keep the business running leads to an intense, complex world which we study here.
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