Tactical capacity planning in hospital departments

Optimal allocation of MRI scan capacity among competing hospital departments

We consider an MRI scanning facility run by a Radiology department. Several hospital departments compete for capacity and have private information regarding their demand for scans. The fairness of the capacity allocation by the Radiology department depends on the quality of the information provided by the hospital departments. We employ a generic Bayesian game approach that stimulates the discl...

Guerrilla capacity planning - a tactical approach to planning for highly scalable applications and services

Data Envelopment Analysis Improves Hospital Capacity Planning

We report on an application of data envelopment analysis to hospital capacity planning in Germany. This work was carried out as part of a ministry report prepared by a major German health care consulting company. Our input into this report is a first attempt to incorporate the relative economic efficiency of hospitals into the capacity planning process. The application develops a general approa...

Tactical Planning using Heuristics

Modern transportation problems are highly dynamic and time critical. A planning system for transportation problems must therefore include efficient and flexible planning and replanning strategies. In this paper we introduce a general agent-based framework for highly dynamic order-based transportation planning problems where a tactical planner and several operational planners (one for each trans...

Capacity planning in the hospital queueing network with blocking: simulation-based optimization approach

Introduction: Hospital administrators have always faced the challenge of providing the best possible health services in a resource-limited environment. The patient flow throughout the hospital is affected by lack of the capacities that can lead to bed-blocking among the hospital units. In this research, the patient flow in the hospital is modeled as an open queueing network with blocking. Then,...