On the medication distribution system for home health care through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery.

Suwatcharachaitiwong, S; Lin, C-C; Huang, W; Hung, L-P

On the medication distribution system for home health care through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery.

Suwatcharachaitiwong, S Lin, C-C Huang, W

Hung, L-P

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Health informatics journal, 2020, pp. 1460458220936395
Issue Date:: 2020-08-03

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dc.contributor.author	Suwatcharachaitiwong, S
dc.contributor.author	Lin, C-C
dc.contributor.author	Huang, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-7839
dc.contributor.author	Hung, L-P
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-12T03:47:01Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-12T03:47:01Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-03
dc.identifier.citation	Health informatics journal, 2020, pp. 1460458220936395
dc.identifier.issn	1460-4582
dc.identifier.issn	1741-2811
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/144638
dc.description.abstract	Medication distribution service can be delivered based on a combination of home delivery and customer pickup. That is, medications are delivered either to customers' homes directly or to the pickup facilities (e.g. lockers) close to customers' homes. In Taiwan, there are more than 11,000 convenience stores that provide a 24-h service for customers to pick up the ordered items from e-commerce, which is unique to the world. In the medication distribution system, convenience stores can provide a unique opportunity for customers to more conveniently collect medications at stores, and also can reduce the operating cost for a logistics company providing the medication delivery service. Therefore, this work proposes a medication distribution system through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery. Under this system, this work investigates how to simultaneously determine employment of convenience store chains, the convenience store locations to be visited, locations of lockers, vehicle routes for convenience stores and lockers, and vehicle routes for customers' homes, so that the total operating cost is minimized. This work further proposes a genetic algorithm to solve the medication distribution problem. Through simulation, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to solve the problem efficiently.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartof	Health informatics journal
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1460458220936395
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Health informatics journal, 2020, pp. 1460458220936395. Copyright © 2020 SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460458220936395	en_US
dc.subject	0806 Information Systems, 0807 Library and Information Studies
dc.subject.classification	Medical Informatics
dc.title	On the medication distribution system for home health care through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.location.activity	England
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems
utslib.for	0807 Library and Information Studies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2020-12-12T03:46:53Z
pubs.publication-status	Published

Abstract:

Medication distribution service can be delivered based on a combination of home delivery and customer pickup. That is, medications are delivered either to customers' homes directly or to the pickup facilities (e.g. lockers) close to customers' homes. In Taiwan, there are more than 11,000 convenience stores that provide a 24-h service for customers to pick up the ordered items from e-commerce, which is unique to the world. In the medication distribution system, convenience stores can provide a unique opportunity for customers to more conveniently collect medications at stores, and also can reduce the operating cost for a logistics company providing the medication delivery service. Therefore, this work proposes a medication distribution system through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery. Under this system, this work investigates how to simultaneously determine employment of convenience store chains, the convenience store locations to be visited, locations of lockers, vehicle routes for convenience stores and lockers, and vehicle routes for customers' homes, so that the total operating cost is minimized. This work further proposes a genetic algorithm to solve the medication distribution problem. Through simulation, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to solve the problem efficiently.

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