Modeling and simulation have been shown to be useful tools in many areas of the Healthcare operational management, field in which there is probably no area more dynamic and complex than hospital emergency departments (ED). This paper presents an ongoing research, an Agent-Based modeling and simulation to design a decision support system (DSS) for the operation of Healthcare Emergency Department...

Motivated by a proposal of the local authority for improving the existing healthcare system in the Parana State in Brazil, this article presents an optimization-based model for developing a better system for patients by aggregating various health services offered in the municipalities of Parana into some microregions. The problem is formulated as a multi-objective partitioning of the nodes of a...

background: increasing hospital costs and its social and cultural problems has led to the idea of providing healthcare services at home. because of infrastructural and implementation problems, providing healthcare at home in iran has not been initiated yet. therefore, this study set out to elaborate the need for a comprehensive system in order to provide this service in iran. methods: all artic...

Received Mar 23, 2017 Revised Jun 18, 2017 Accepted Sept 11, 2017 With advent of Big Data Analytics, the healthcare system is increasingly adopting the analytical services that is ultimately found to generate massive load of highly unstructured data. We reviewed the existing system to find that there are lesser number of solutions towards addressing the problems of data variety, data uncertaint...

Nowadays, working alone on a context is not sufficient and reaching good and worthy results demands cooperation of multi sciences. Healthcare supply chain is one of these sciences that bridges engineering and healthcare sciences. This paper proposes a new multi–objective model for organ transplant supply chain, which is one of consequential fields in Healthcare supply chain, by aiming at having...