Performance analysis on algorithms for selection of desired healthcare services

SummaryIn recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in healthcare services. Different hospitals with the support of many specialists provide a wide variety of healthcare services. The information about different hospitals and their health care service capabilities are quite not well integrated. However, IT based solutions are being developed for effective sharing of health care service capabilities and for selection of desired health care service providers. As different hospitals provide a wide variety of health care services and since different users have different criteria in selecting the health care providers, the selection of health care providers can be modelled as a multi-criteria decision making problem. In this paper, attempts were made to apply different multi-criteria solution methodologies such as ELECTRE, PROMETHEE, AHP for health care service applications. The algorithms were implemented and their performance were analyzed and investigated. The experimental results prove that the PROMETHEE method is best suited for solving multi-criteria decision making problem in the selection of desired health care services