Querying social practices in hospital context

Querying social practices in hospital context

Larsen, John Bruntse (Technical University of Denmark)
Dignum, M.V. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
Villadsen, Jørgen (Technical University of Denmark)
Dignum, Frank (Universiteit Utrecht)

2018

Understanding the social contexts in which actions and interactions take place is of utmost importance for planning one’s goals and activities. People use social practices as means to make sense of their environment, assessing how that context relates to past, common experiences, culture and capabilities. Social practices can therefore simplify deliberation and planning in complex contexts. In the context of patient-centered planning, hospitals seek means to ensure that patients and their families are at the center of decisions and planning of the healthcare processes. This requires on one hand that patients are aware of the practices being in place at the hospital and on the other hand that hospitals have the means to evaluate and adapt current practices to the needs of the patients. In this paper we apply a framework for formalizing social practices of an organization to an emergency department that carries out patient-centered planning. We indicate how such a formalization can be used to answer operational queries about the expected outcome of operational actions.

Decision Support
Hospital Staff Planning
Multi-Agent Goals
Social Practices

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5668eb42-4412-4f8d-8281-5533e4dbb26a

https://doi.org/10.5220/0006580904050412

SciTePress

9789897582752

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, ICAART 2018, 2

ICAART 2018, 2018-01-16 → 2018-01-18, Villa Galé - Santa Cruz, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

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© 2018 John Bruntse Larsen, M.V. Dignum, Jørgen Villadsen, Frank Dignum