Literature Review on Patient Scheduling Techniques

Patients need to undergo several checkups, tests, surgery and treatments according to their illness. This paper describes the challenges of patient scheduling and patient scheduling techniques. An efficient scheduling technique is needed to minimize the waiting time of patients and to improve the resource utilization. The patient treatment processes are not completely decided at the beginning of treatment. The goal of the patient scheduling is to develop a scheduling system that manages patient-focused schedules and treat the patients immediately. Patient scheduling is difficult to deal because of the complexity involved in the problem. Software agent based-scheduling system is a good option to schedule the patients efficiently in the hospital.