Towards Restraining Cost in Healthcare Domain: A Multiagent Approach Communications of the IBIMA

The proliferating cost with-in the healthcare domain is forcing the researchers and practitioners alike to revisit healthcare logistics domain again and again in order to control the cost. However, controlling healthcare cost requires that limits be placed either on prices, quantities of services or both. As prices can be easily controlled by effectively focusing on the mechanism rather then involving and arguing about the services. The prototype developed has directed its attention towards coordination and intelligence in order to effectively manage the logistics while aiming for the improvement of mechanism. Coordination and user profiling has been demonstrated in multi agent environment. The idea here is to order medicines using human expertise in the form of fuzzy logics and effective coordination of different hospital pharmacies for an efficient use of medicines.