Research Article

Architecting a System Model for Personalized Healthcare Delivery and Managed Individual Health Outcomes

Table 3

Summary of the analogy between mass-customized productions systems and personalized healthcare delivery.

SystemMass-customized production systemPersonalized healthcare delivery system

(A) System form
 ResourcesBuffer () [Transformation () Buffer () [Transformation ()
Independent buffer ()] Decision () Measurement ()]
Transportation ()Transportation ()
 Resource classificationFixedTransform > Decide > Measure > Transportation

(B) System function
 ProcessesTransformation () Transportation ()Transformation () Decision () Measurement () Transportation ()

(C) System concept
 System knowledge base
 System constraint matrix
 Structural degrees of freedom (nodes)
 System sequence knowledge base
 System sequence constraint matrix
 System sequence degrees of freedom (edges)

(D) Operand Petri-net modelProduct net (Health net ()
 PlacesProduct places (Health state ()
 TransitionsProduct event ()Health event (
 Transition durationInfinitesimalFixed duration (
 Arcs
 Arc weightStochastic (“Fuzzy”)()

(E) Coordinating system and operandProductionHealthcare
 Operand Transformation Feasibility MatrixProduct Transformation Feasibility Matrix of size Individual Transformation Feasibility Matrix of size