Systematic Patient Navigation Strategies to Scale Breast Cancer Disparity Reduction by Improved Cancer Prevention and Care Delivery Processes EHR and RTLS data obtained from a large cancer center in ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University are developing a massive fluid dynamics simulator that can model blood flow through the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. One of the goals ...

One of the overall goals of healthcare reform is to move from a fragmented healthcare system to an integrated model that provides services more efficiently and at less cost. Within hospitals, this ...

On Monday, September 30, UAB Clinical Simulation and the Center for Patient Flow hosted the Z-bed Optimization Tabletop Sim. In order to increase capacity for our patients, Z-beds or virtual beds are ...

Patient flow or patient throughput has become a major concern for most hospital CEOs because their organizations are beginning to experience the real human and financial costs of not addressing the ...

Although health systems have seen some much-needed improvement to operating margins in recent quarters, these positive headlines mask a disturbing reality that illustrates the immense challenges most ...

Optimization models have been used to generate a scheduling template that improves patient flow or efficiency of resource use. 1, 6 - 9, 11 - 17 Discrete-event simulation (DES) modeling has been used ...