Technology for optimizing medical decision-making

The objective of the study is the development of optimization techniques for making management decisions in healthcare institutions. Material and Methods. We combined the research findings obtained earlier and interviewed two groups of healthcare managers (49 set the optimization principles for making management decisions, 79 tested the technology we designed). Methods of analytical, logical, sociological, content-analysis of official and medical documentation, flow charts, organizational experiment, statistical were used. Results. We established the optimization principles for making management decisions in healthcare institutions: goal orientation, system approach (isomorphism and multiparameter interaction), prospectivity, use of adequate criterial and diagnostic apparatus, flexibility, differentiation, competence, democratization. These enabled designing and testing of the optimization technology guided by the authors' automated multicriterial assessment of successfulness for the studied approach; it provided making and implementing the management decisions that were the most appropriate for achieving results of the medical institution (number of institutions) performance. Conclusion. The technology considered in the study enables setting the trend and implementing goal-oriented measures for optimization of the management decisions in healthcare institutions.