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  • Health Informatics
  • Operations Research
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Cloud healthcare systems (CHS) offer telemedicine services to overcome traditional healthcare access barriers.
  • Resource scheduling in CHS is complex due to the need to balance efficiency and quality amidst uncertain patient behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the resource scheduling problem in CHS with multi-station queueing networks.
  • To develop a model that optimizes patient-resource matching while minimizing total medical costs, considering waiting and penalty costs.

Main Methods:

  • A Markov decision model with uncertainty was developed to represent the scheduling problem.
  • A three-stage dynamic scheduling method incorporating an improved Q-learning algorithm was designed to find the optimal schedule.

Main Results:

  • The Q-learning-based scheduling algorithm significantly outperformed two traditional scheduling algorithms.
  • The proposed method effectively balanced conflicting sub-costs (medical, waiting, penalty) and improved overall service efficiency.

Conclusions:

  • The developed Q-learning approach provides an effective solution for resource scheduling in CHS.
  • This method enhances service efficiency and cost management in cloud-based telemedicine.