Discrete nature of relational trust networks: A multilayered model for healthcare systems

Abstract

Medical Trust-Network is one of the most promising fields of study in network science. Establishment of trust within medical entities ensures better treatment and increases better medical facilities. The word 'Trust' signifies a very important behavioral aspect between any human entities, especially among doctors and patients. To represent such relationships Trust Network Models are built to express the interactions between human entities within such networks. Though the idea of a Trust-Network has traditionally been one of the major areas of research, yet the concept of a medical trust network model is relatively a new domain. In this paper, we introduce an overall multilayered Trust Network to represent the entire healthcare architecture. More specifically our model is based on an evolutionary graph system with a discrete relationship between the three most important entities of any healthcare system, namely -- Doctors, Departments, and Hospitals. Observations indicate that based on our model, the medical healthcare system is a multilayered model unlike a feed-forward model as indicated by previous studies.

A Multilayered Healthcare Architecture Using Relational Trust Network

“…Our model consists of multilayered interaction between the network entities unlike the previous feed-forward model proposed by (Guo et al) [29], thus reducing the computational complexity. Due to this, our model also shows all possible interactions between the network entities, namely -doctors, their departments, and their workplace hospitals or medical centers.…”

“…Though they laid a foundation to a complex medical network, they also failed to explore the inter-relation between these medical entities, which can be explored by only a multilayered network model. We have already described a basic relational or discrete overview of trust in medical system in our study previously [29]. The novelty of this work is to propose a multilayered network model with a simple discrete relationship incorporating all the entities in a well built medical Trust-Network.…”