Sistema basado en reglas para determinar el campo de aplicación de la simulación en el Sistema de Salud Colombiano

Abstract

The Healthcare System in Colombia has been the source of numerous issues generated by the inequality in access to health services that the Colombian population has, the poor provision of health services, corruption and others, situations that are widely known that have been occurring in recent years but it is not possible notice the change of this. In this context, this research aims to offer a window in the academic field to address some of the challenges of the Colombian Health System through simulation techniques. These techniques provide robust tools for the improvement and decision-making process, which means that their evaluation is faster and cheaper than carrying out such experiments on the real system. The simulation paradigms used in this research are discrete simulation, continuous simulation and agent-based simulation, techniques that have specific characteristics in their state variables, the interactions between them and their performance measures, which leads to facing the challenge of deciding which is the best technique to use. In this sense, the present investigation intends to design a Rule-based system through interaction with the user, allows determining which is the most appropriate simulation technique to address the problem of interest to the user and indicates the main performance measures, variables, causal relationships and/or behaviors.