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.
| System | Mass-customized production system | Personalized healthcare delivery system |
| (A) System form | | | Resources | Buffer () [Transformation () | Buffer () [Transformation () | Independent buffer ()] | Decision () Measurement ()] | Transportation () | Transportation () | Resource classification | Fixed | Transform > Decide > Measure > Transportation |
| (B) System function | | | Processes | Transformation () 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 model | Product net ( | Health net () | Places | Product places ( | Health state () | Transitions | Product event () | Health event ( | Transition duration | Infinitesimal | Fixed duration ( | Arcs | | | Arc weight | | Stochastic (“Fuzzy”)() |
| (E) Coordinating system and operand | Production | Healthcare | Operand Transformation Feasibility Matrix | Product Transformation Feasibility Matrix of size | Individual Transformation Feasibility Matrix of size |
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