PoleSat_2018: an optimized, automated, geomatics IT tool based on a gravitational model: strategic decision support in hospital catchment area planning

PoleSat_2018: an optimized, automated, geomatics IT tool based on a gravitational model: strategic decision support in hospital catchment area planning

In France and elsewhere, decision-makers, healthcare professionals and health planners need to better understand and specify the provision of medical care. To this end, a hospital-based research project on a gravitational health planning modelling process was initiated in 2002. Since then, geomatics...

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Published in:SN applied sciences Vol. 2; no. 5; p. 992
Main Authors: Quesnel-Barbet, Anne, Soula, Julien, Gamichon, Mathurin, Ben Gayed, Ismahane, Dufossez, François, Bazile, Pierre, Sauleau, Eric-André, Parrend, Pierre, Hansske, Arnaud
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-05-2020
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects:
6. Interdisciplinary (general)
Algorithms
Applied and Technical Physics
Automation
Blood & organ donations
Catchment areas
Chemistry/Food Science
Computer Science
Decision making
Decision support systems
Delaunay triangulation
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Engineering Sciences
Environment
Geography
Graphical user interface
Gravity
Health care
Health planning
Health services
Hospital systems
Hospitals
Humanities and Social Sciences
Informatics
Interfaces
Internet resources
Materials Science
Mathematics
Medical personnel
Methods
Planning
Public health
Research Article
Research projects
Simulation
System theory
User interface
France
Gravitation
Marketing of health services
Computer simulation
Diagnosis-related groups
Decision support systems (clinical)
Catchment area (health)
Gravitation Marketing of health services
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Summary:In France and elsewhere, decision-makers, healthcare professionals and health planners need to better understand and specify the provision of medical care. To this end, a hospital-based research project on a gravitational health planning modelling process was initiated in 2002. Since then, geomatics has emerged as a major scientific field for facing new challenges in medical informatics and health planning, thanks to the use of attractive interfaces, new methods and user-friendly IT technologies. Our initial 2002 model has recently been enhanced, optimized and automated as part of a spatial decision support system (PoleSat_2018). These decisive improvements and optimizations were mainly based on Delaunay triangulation, the replacement of human expertise with a heuristic dominance rule that provides a complete automated algorithm, and an online graphical user interface. Rapid, easy planning scenarios (by grouping and/or closing hospitals) give a quasi-instantaneous, strategic visualization of hospital catchment areas for decision-makers who are not experts in geomatics via ready-to-use maps and spreadsheets. This new implementation achieves our main objective, since the proposed deterministic method provides a completely automated, stable algorithm. A custom version of this tool is now being used by the French Ministry of Health for real planning issues. Consequently, PoleSat could be easily generalized as a prospective, strategic decision support tool for various health planning issues.
ISSN:2523-3963
2523-3971
DOI:10.1007/s42452-020-2735-y