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Holonic Systems for Decision-Making in Hospital Mergers

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Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA 2023)

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Abstract

Health crises, such as epidemics, require a precise decision-making and control process between the different components of the health system in order to manage patients effectively. In this context of improvement, governments in various countries create GHTs, i.e., hospital mergers or, in French, “Groupement Hospitalier de Territoire”. The purpose of this article is to discuss three more or less (de-)centralised decision-making scenarios within a GHT. In this article, these different decision-making models have been applied to a specific GHT located in the Loire region of France. These scenarios are proposed through the incorporation of the agent concept into the decision-making system of this GHT because the introduction of this concept through holonic systems is a way to efficiently integrate data into systems while considering various constraints. Before proposing these scenarios, this article first reviews the literature on GHTs from 1980 to 2021. The review shows that decentralized decision-making seems to be a key factor in the success of a GHT.

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    Supplementary material presents the different combinations of keywords searched in the literature review, exclusion criteria, a figure presenting the percentages of countries in which the GHT concept is mentioned in the articles found, and articles not referenced in this article: https://github.com/disp-lab/centr_vs_decentr/blob/master/SOHOMA2023.pdf.

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  1. University Lyon, INSA Lyon, Univ Lyon 2, University Jean Monnet, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, DISP UR4570, Villeurbanne, France

    Nouha Jlassi, Thierry Moyaux, Guillaume Bouleux & Yacine Ouzrout

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  1. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science (Automatica), University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Theodor Borangiu

  2. UPHF, LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes cedex 9, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  3. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Braganca, Portugal

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Jlassi, N., Moyaux, T., Bouleux, G., Ouzrout, Y. (2024). Holonic Systems for Decision-Making in Hospital Mergers. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Berrah, L., Jimenez, JF. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2023. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1136. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53445-4_10

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