4) HOSPITAL AUTOMATION

4 Patient choice of hospital

Patient choice is not new to the National Health Service (NHS). The nationalisation of hospitals at the founding of the NHS made it possible for a patient to go to any NHS hospital with a referral from a general practitioner (GP). In practice, however, GPs made these decisions on behalf of their patients and, for the majority of the 60-odd years since the inception of the NHS, patient flows to ...

Array Algebra Automation of 4-d Imaging and Range Sensing

Mathematical photogrammetry and geodesy pioneered some early applications of matrix and tensor calculus in the general theory of estimation and statistics. This theory together with fast transforms of signal processing was expanded since 1968 in author’s inventions of array algebra and loop inverses in Finland and Sweden, leading to 1975 employment with Duane Brown and other US pioneers of this...

Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

Test Automation Architectures: Planning for Test Automation

Designing a practical test automation architecture provides a solid foundation for a successful automation effort. This paper describes key elements of automated testing that need to be considered, models for testing that can be used for designing a test automation architecture, and considerations for successfully combining the elements to form an automated test environment. The paper first dev...

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