A Proactive Workflow Model for Healthcare Operation and Management

Abstract– Advances in real-time location systems have enabled us to collect massive amounts of fine-grained semantically rich location traces, which provide unparalleled opportunities for understanding human activities and generating useful knowledge. Explicitly, delivers intelligence for real-time decision making in various fields, such as workflow management. Indeed, it is a new paradigm to model workflows through knowledge discovery in location traces. To that end. Important to realize, focused study of workflow modeling by integrated analysis of indoor location traces in the hospital environment. In particular, we develop a workflow modeling framework that automatically constructs the workflow states and estimates the parameters describing the workflow transition patterns.
More specifically, we propose effective and efficient regularizations for modeling the indoor location traces as stochastic processes. First, to improve the interpretability of the workflow states, Thus, geography relationship between the indoor rooms to define a prior of the workflow state distribution. This prior encourages each workflow state to be a contiguous region in the building. Second, to further improve the modeling performance, but also improve the modeling accuracy significantly. As a result,
reduce the average log-loss by up to 11 percent.