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New product development (NPD) has been the critical pathway to strengthening their competitive advantage for knowledge intensive organizations. This study intends to explore the impact of the customer knowledge integration capability (CKIC), customer knowledge absorptive capability (CKAC), customer knowledge creation capability (CKCC), and customer relationship capability (CRC) on NPD performance...
The SIR model of Hong Kong H1N1 epidemic disease has been established and the software Matlab was used to solve the established SIR model in this paper. The predicted result though SIR model agree with the actual epidemic well. The established SIR model can be used to further investigate and analyze the H1N1 epidemic of Hong Kong and other zone and provide the condition for the control of H1N1 epidemic.
Today, medical equipment maintenance suffers from the same ailments that traditional medicine was suffering from before. Rapid advance of medical technologies has proven that traditional maintenance is no longer enough to ensure that equipment is getting the best possible maintenance. Medical equipment industry has been following empirical approaches and very little was done on mathematical modelling...
"Hospital Information Systems" are designed for improving the health quality of people and for the management of all the hospital's medical and administrative information in order to enable health professionals to perform their jobs effectively and efficiency. However the main problem has been raising that is whether hospital personnel want to use these systems while performing their tasks...
By analyzing the factors which have impact on how the hospital arrange its sickbeds, this paper gives a evaluation index system about arranging the sickbeds and a evaluation model that based on the overall satisfaction of the patients and the hospital. From the perspective of patients, we consider their time, cost and the therapeutic effect, while from the viewpoint of the hospital, the analysis incorporates...
Waiting time in emergency department before admission is one of the most important cause of overcrowding of the department. Many difficulties are faced by the decision maker in charge of assigning a bed both to emergency patients and elective inpatients. He has to take into account many constraints and has to find a solution optimizing multiple criteria. He has to deal with the need to minimize the...
This paper presents a mathematical model for the redeployment of a specialized healthcare network in a region. Two type of stakeholders are taken into account: patients and health authorities. The problem consists in: (i) redesigning the distribution of medical services in existing healthcare centers minimizing opening costs, and (ii) assigning patients to centers providing required services minimizing...
In this paper we present a Decision Support System (DSS) aimed at forecasting high demand of admission on health care structures due to environmental pollution. The computational engine of the DSS is based on Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models (AHMM). We estimate the forecasting model by analyzing the historical daily average concentrations of pollutants and the number of hospital admissions, collected...
This paper addresses the management and performance analysis of the pulmonology department of the general hospital of Bari, Italy, focusing on the department workflow and drug distribution system. To this aim, we present a discrete event system model which can be employed as a support for taking decisions regarding the information and automation integration in order to improve the drug procurement...
An integrated evaluation system for acid-base balance is proposed based on laboratory results in medical practice. It provides degree of each disorder type in acid-base disorder based on fuzzy inference and the reason of each disorder with laboratory results except blood gas test. Evaluation experimental results for 11936 data taken in clinical laboratory of Kochi Medical School Hospital show that...
Radiology departments could benefit from the digital dashboards which integrate and visualize information reflecting workflow state. However, the heterogeneous environment in radiology prevents an integrated overall view of the process. The objective of this study is to design and develop a workflow-based dashboard in a heterogeneous environment to help the radiology administrators and managers monitor...
The impact within a known process due to the introduction of new technology may entail many factors such as workflow modification, increase of wait time, modification in service quality, and even cultural changes. The inclusion of these factors into a process affects its performance, but the implementation of innovations may counteract the impact and could even enhance the process. The objective of...
This paper is mainly a continuation of the previous study, which is based on an assessment of liver function and verifies the results. First of all, we use the grey relational grade in grey system theory and integrate the numerical results of the examiner. And then, the influence factors of liver function toward weighting value are derived by GM(0,N) weight analysis model. In addition, by using software,...
The explosive growth in technology usage has put growing pressure on organizations to serve customers electronically. Healthcare service, as one of data intensive industries, tries to serve their patients with excellent service in the timely manner when the data volume is growing faster than organizational infrastructure development. Because the hospital information system called Electronic Medical...
Using an agent based modeling and simulation (ABMS) tool, an artificial urban healthcare system (HCS) platform can help make medical services more convenient and cost effective. Although China's living standards have significantly improved in the past few decades, the overall performance and coverage of healthcare services has not advanced as fast as the country's economic growth. Therefore, the reform...
This paper mainly introduces some factors which the sickroom's environment influences Operative Rehabilitation. And the sickroom's environment has three major factors: temperature, humidity and the number of free-swimming bacteria which existed in air. All these three factors effect on Operative Rehabilitation. This paper analyzes the influence of Operative Rehabilitation by means of the method that...
High demand and poor staffing conditions cause avoidable pressure and stress among healthcare personnel which results in burnout symptoms and unplanned absenteeism which are hidden cost drivers. The work environment within an emergency department is commonly arranged in a flexible workload which is highly dynamic and complex for the outside observer. Using detailed simulation modeling within structured...
The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision has strongly recommended that all hospitals need to take action to improve the long waiting times before patients are seen by a physician in the Hospital Emergency Department. Akershus University Hospital has complied with this by introducing physician triage every weekday from 10 am to 7 pm. Because it is difficult to see the influence this has had on the...
Liver diseases and liver cancer has been the top ten causes of death among ten leading causes of death in Taiwan and always in the top. Usually, in the general liver function examination, biochemical test is the most common and a test that show the most direct reflection of the body condition. The health subject can determine the further inspection according to the inspection results. Nevertheless,...
The nurse rostering problem (NRP) is a task of assigning duties fairly among available nurses at healthcare organizations for specific periods of time defined as shifts. NRP belongs to NP-hard problems for which an optimal solution is difficult to be obtained. This paper reports on the practical nurse rostering problem and issues at Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM). A survey (questionnaire...
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