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This paper presents results of a study conducted jointly with a regional hospital and concerned with inpatient discharge process. In an effort to see what the hospital can do to reduce alternative level of care (ALC) days (or length of stay, LOS), a simulation model of the discharge planning path was created and validated. The model was used to explore the effects of standardizing parts of the discharge...
A new system for the computerized management of the surgical path was developed by Tuscany “Gabriele Monasterio” Foundation at the Heart Hospital of "G. Pasquinucci" Massa. The system has been in operating since 2009 and manages the paths of more than 2500 surgical patients / year in cardiology. The system was developed from the need to make more efficient and flexible operating room activities,...
Fewer than one in four Canadian doctors use electronic medical record (EMR) systems, although almost all have some form of computer for scheduling and billing purposes. As a result, patient clinical records are mostly on paper, and are scattered and often inaccessible in doctors' offices, clinics, test centres, labs, and hospitals. To properly care for their patients, primary care practitioners must...
Hospitals can be viewed as service enterprises, whose products are specific sets of medical services provided to individual patients. It indicates that a hospital in theory has a product line as extensive as the number of patients it serves, however, each patient has certain diagnosis and therapeutic attributes in common with some other patients. Thus, patients with similar medical attributes could...
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