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It is critical to understand but difficult to study nursing behavior in response to safety interventions.A common nursing scenario, evidence based on appropriate nursing actions in response to patient safety risks, and a corresponding measure of nursing behavior, the Safety Action Performance Scale, were developed. These tools were content validated and tested for feasibility.The scenario was low-cost,...
In this paper, the application of genetic algorithm (GA) to energy management of isolated power system is discussed. A method to realize the simultaneous optimization of configuration and operation with emergency generators (EGs) in a hospital is proposed as an example. The simultaneous optimization of configuration and operation needs search of enormous combinations, which is generally considered...
This paper presents a comparison of optimum energy scheduling of emergency generators (EGs) of a large hospital with renewable energy system using mathematical programming methods. A large hospital has the EGs to keep a medical service when a power failure occurred in disaster In using the EGs, the hospital has to save the fuel consumption in island operation mode to drive the EGs as long as possible...
Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a developed technology used to model manufacturing and service systems. However, although the importance of modelling people in a DES has been recognised, there is little guidance on how this can be achieved in practice. The results from a literature review were used in order to identify examples of the use of DES to model people. Each article was examined in order...
The purpose of the simulation performed in this study was to assess the requirements for a point-of-care (POC) bedside robot for patient education and emotional care; the simulation also facilitates defining the essential elements and functions of a robot before robot system development. The major functionalities evaluated in the simulation were: 1) bidirectional video system; 2) support system of...
We are interested in solving the problem of locating a subset of facilities in the case of uncertainties and variations in the system parameters. Dealing with this problem using scenarios based approach needs an important computational effort. The two phases proposed method in this paper combines both exact and heuristic approaches to minimize the maximum regret of the model. We proposed and compared...
The aim of this study is to make simulations with Matlab/Simulink to be used in the production phase of the autoclave in the sterilization unit. Sterilization unit is very important in terms of hospital employees and patients for protecting from infections and accidents. The study examined autoclave equipments that are fabricated based on the EN standards, then mathematical calculations were performed...
To utilize data from hospital systems, big data analytics (BDA) has become increasingly important. BDA enable queries of large highly diverse and real volumes of patient data in an interactively dynamic way that enriches the use of the platform with data visualization for healthcare. We established a Healthcare BDA (HBDA) platform at the University of Victoria (UVic) with Compute Canada/Westgrid,...
The main objective of this study is to generate an optimum solution for capacity planning and appointment scheduling issues, which are frequently encountered in clinical flows with various route and treatment periods at dental hospitals. With this study, given the flow of different existing treatment processes belonging to patients are optimized, and also the continuity of the system is ensured by...
The introduction of new diagnosis treatment systems and devices in hospital environments presents an enormous challenge in terms of strategies and operational planning. These systems, which are generally interconnected, generate huge volumes of information of a heterogeneous nature that may be processed using resources that are external to the hospital. Correct design of hospital communications would...
Healthcare has become reliant on electronic health record systems to support patient treatment. Despite all of the benefits of these electronic systems, they have one major flaw: they can go offline, leaving healthcare workers forced to employ contingency plans and procedures. The procedures are poorly regulated and rarely practiced, introducing the potential for significant increase to patient risk...
The design of healthcare facilities involves the complex system in various spatial and temporal dimensions; it involves a wide range of functions, different kinds of users and activities, and various technical requirements. Understanding the complexity in healthcare facilities becomes important in order to ensure that the design could perform well to support healthcare services. This paper discusses...
There are some problems faced by the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial Kesehatan or “BPJS Health”) in managing community-based health insurance program. In fact, the number of patients has increased dramatically and this condition influences the available capacity of the bed in the public health care center (Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat or Puskemas) and hospital,...
In response to events and exceptional situations (e.g. health threats related to epidemics, seasonal flux, heat waves, and cold waves), hospital establishments in particular emergency departments, must be able to receive patients for medical and surgical treatments whatever the extent of the patient flow. The conventional medical resources are often outdated and ineffective in absorbing a large influx...
The work presented in this paper intends to show the impact of collaborative partnerships between the hospitals on the improvement of the healthcare supply chains configurations. In particular, we present an approach that support the implementation of new alternatives for inventory management ranging from the inventory centralization to the emergency lateral transshipment practices within a group...
Several variants of the Operating room scheduling problem are provided in literature for different contexts. In Tunisia, especially in Habib Bourguiba Hospital in Sfax, Open scheduling policy is considered to schedule elective surgeries. In the orthopedic service, operating room scheduling is carried out weekly. Three operating rooms are available and one of them is assigned to a special kind of surgeries...
A hospital in Singapore considers deploying radio-frequency identification (RFID) system and setting up a new discharge lounge to improve the patient discharge process. This study uses computer simulation in modeling and comparing the current process without the RFID system and the discharge lounge and the new process with the RFID system and the discharge lounge, and assesses the impact of the RFID...
A bio-inspired model to care for casualties in a disaster is presented and a simulation based on this model is performed and evaluated. The model uses a queuing system inspired by the behavior of immune systems and an ACO-like heuristic for routing casualties across overloaded medical centers. The simulation results are promising. Our model can be modified to be used for the evacuation of population...
The rapidly growing of the world's population makes efficient Healthcare System (HS) management more and more important to all stakeholders, from patients and healthcare providers, to insurance companies and governments. The use of advanced information and networking technologies to advance health care management has long been recognized as the most effective way. Hence, healthcare organizations are...
Ultrasound (US) examination plays a important role in diagnosis process. The goal is to improve the efficiency of US in West China Hospital of Sichuan University. This paper presents results from the use of sub-period appointment. At first, process mapping was used to identify the flow of examination and the bottleneck of it. Then the flow was modeled by the latest simulation platform-simio. Different...
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