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The cost of services provided by public and private healthcare systems is nowadays becoming critical. This work tackles the criticalities of hospital equipments and drugs management by emphasizing its implications on the whole healthcare system efficiency. The work presents a multi-agent based model for decisional cooperation in order to address the problem of integration of departments, wards and personnel for improving equipments, and drugs management. The proposed model faces the challenge of (i) gaining the benefits deriving from successful collaborative models already used in industrial systems and (ii) transferring the most appropriate industrial management practices to healthcare systems.
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Baffo, I., Confessore, G., Liotta, G., Stecca, G. (2009). A Cooperative Model to Improve Hospital Equipments and Drugs Management. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Paraskakis, I., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Leveraging Knowledge for Innovation in Collaborative Networks. PRO-VE 2009. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 307. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04568-4_5
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