Resilience of multi-hospitals network based on the collaborative scheduling

Abstract

Disasters always cause tremendous injuries and medical resources demands in a short period, while improving resilience of hospital network can help to quickly recover from disruptions. Based on biological cell elasticity theory, this paper assimilates the hospital network to the cellular tissue. And we define an indicator of multi-hospitals network resilience that quantifies the ability of hospital network to react to the medical resources demand disruptions due to natural or human-caused disaster. And a collaborative scheduling model of resources in the network is put forward as the reactive strategy to improve the resilience of the hospitals network against disasters. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the resilience concept and assess the effectiveness of the collaborative scheduling.