Systematic Patient Navigation Strategies to Scale Breast Cancer Disparity Reduction by Improved Cancer Prevention and Care Delivery Processes EHR and RTLS data obtained from a large cancer center in ...
Although health systems have seen some much-needed improvement to operating margins in recent quarters, these positive headlines mask a disturbing reality that illustrates the immense challenges most ...
Biomedical engineers at Duke University are developing a massive fluid dynamics simulator that can model blood flow through the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. One of the goals ...
Patient flow or patient throughput has become a major concern for most hospital CEOs because their organizations are beginning to experience the real human and financial costs of not addressing the ...
On Monday, September 30, UAB Clinical Simulation and the Center for Patient Flow hosted the Z-bed Optimization Tabletop Sim. In order to increase capacity for our patients, Z-beds or virtual beds are ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Western Pennsylvania Hospital News.Many emergency medicine departments in [Pennsylvania] and throughout the country are experiencing ...
Optimization models have been used to generate a scheduling template that improves patient flow or efficiency of resource use. 1, 6 - 9, 11 - 17 Discrete-event simulation (DES) modeling has been used ...