PMID: 11906125Mar 22, 2002Paper

Installation and experience of an automatic scheduling system for multiple diagnostic examinations: in search of maximum utilization of regional health care resources

Osaka City Medical Journal
K HasegawaR Yamada

Abstract

We installed a scheduling system that optimally schedules multiple appointments for various diagnostic examinations for a patient based on patient characteristics, disease characteristics and conditions, characteristics of diagnostic examinations, possible interactions between two successive examinations, and features and availability of diagnostic equipment. The system consists of four client terminals, 12 laboratory terminals, and one server. After the run-in period, the system started operation in July 2000. A total of 14353 examinations involving 11447 patients were managed over 7 months. On average, approximately 82 patients per day underwent approximately 103 examinations. On average, 16.1 patients a day requested 2 or more examinations in a scheduling session (approx. 2.3 examinations/patient; maximum 5 examinations for a single patient). After reading the request sheet(s) (OCR sheet(s)), suggested time/date slots of examination(s) were displayed on the client terminal within 10 seconds. The average time required for a patient to establish his or her schedule was approximately 2 minutes. Thus, the system greatly mitigated the load on health care professionals in scheduling appointments for examinations. In general, patie...Continue Reading

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