Automated material handling systems are used in healthcare facilities to optimize flow, minimize workforce requirements, reduce risk of contamination, and work injuries. This paper develops a case study using data from Greenville Memorial Hospital (GMH) South Carolina, USA. The is focused on the delivery surgical carts operating rooms at GMH via Guided Vehicles (AGVs). proposes framework that i...

objective: to systematically review the current literature of simulation in healthcare including the structured steps in the emergency healthcare sector by proposing a framework for simulation in the emergency department. methods: for the purpose of collecting the data, pubmed and acm databases were used between the years 2003 and 2013. the inclusion criteria were to select english-written arti...

Laboratory accreditation is an essential element in the healthcare system since it contributes substantially to decision-making, in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the health status of the patients, as well as in the organization and management of public healthcare. Therefore, the clinical biochemistry professional works continuously to provide reliable results and contrib...

BACKGROUND Measurement of healthcare spatial access over a network involves accounting for demand, supply, and network structure. Popular approaches are based on floating catchment areas; however the methods can overestimate demand over the network and fail to capture cascading effects across the system. METHODS Optimization is presented as a framework to measure spatial access. Questions rel...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.10.025 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +965 601 2051. E-mail addresses: [email protected] kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw (T.M. Alkhamis). This paper integrates simulation with optimization to design a decision support tool for the operation of an emergency department unit at a governmental hospital in Kuwait. The hospital provi...

This paper presents an Agent-Based modeling and simulation to design a decision support system (DSS) for the operation of Healthcare Emergency Departments (ED). This DSS aims to aid EDs managers in setting up strategies and management guidelines to optimize the operation of EDs. This ongoing research is being performed by the Research Group on Individual Oriented Modeling (IoM) of CAOS in the U...

RFID (radio frequency identification) technology has already proved its use in various areas such as security, library, airline, military, animal forms, sports and other areas. RFID is being used for various applications in many industries. For example, equipment tracking, access controls including personal and vehicle, logistic, baggage, items security in departmental store. The main advantage...

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is nowadays widely used to support decision makers in system analysis and improvement. However, the use of simulation for improving stochastic logistic processes is not common among healthcare providers. The process of improving healthcare systems involves the necessity to deal with trade-off optimal solutions that take into consideration a multiple number of var...