Patent ID: 8311850

Claim:
A method to schedule a plurality of resources in delivery of healthcare to a plurality of patients, the method comprising the steps of: identifying an availability of one or more of the resources to deliver the healthcare to each of the plurality of patients; and through execution of instructions by at least one processor of at least one machine: calculating a predicted duration to deliver the healthcare to each of the patients; calculating a schedule including at least one block of time dependent on the predicted duration for at least one of the plurality of resources to deliver healthcare to one or more of the patients; calculating a confidence level in the schedule, the confidence level including a probability corresponding to one or both of a likelihood of availability or a risk of unavailability with respect to the at least one resource for the at least one block of time of the schedule; and calculating an update to the likelihood of availability or the risk of unavailability based on actual clinical operations during a period of time covered by the schedule.