Abstract

Measuring the supply and demand for access to and wait-times for healthcare is key to managing healthcare services and allocating resources appropriately. Yet, few jurisdictions in distributed, socialized medicine settings have any way to do so. In this paper, we propose the requirements for a jurisdictional patient scheduling system that can measure key metrics, such as supply of and demand for regulated health care professional care, access to and wait times for care, real-time health system utilization and provide the data to compute patient journeys. The system is also capable of tracking new supply of providers and who does not have access to a primary care provider. Benefits, limitations and risks of the model are discussed.

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