Healthcare facilities require flexible layouts that can adapt quickly in the face of various
disruptions. COVID-19 confirmed this need for both healthcare and manufacturing systems …

Healthcare facilities require flexible layouts that can adapt quickly in the face of various
disruptions. COVID-19 confirmed this need for both healthcare and manufacturing systems …

Discrete-event simulation of hospitals typically specifies flow by means of a process graph
through which patients are routed. While this is generally fine for models in which processes …

Nowadays the increase of the world population's age and the progressive specialization of
care techniques and processes are the main driver of demand's increase for health services …

Hospital overcrowding is a universal problem. Currently, Lean thinking is focused on
removing process waste and variation. However, the high level of complexity and …

During hospital planning," flow-chart"-like depictions of processes (nodes and edges) are
often overlaid over the floor plan of a clinic, in order to model patient pathways. However …

This thesis deals with the analysis and management of emergency healthcare processes
through the use of advanced analytics and optimization approaches. Emergency processes …

The sudden admission of many patients with similar needs caused by the COVID-19 (SARS-
CoV-2) pandemic forced health care centers to temporarily transform units to respond to the …

In this paper we focus our analysis on patient flows inside a hospital surgery department,
with the aim of supporting the bed re-configuration following an “intensity of care” paradigm …

In this paper we focus on patient flows inside Internal Medicine Departments, with the aim of
supporting new organizational models taking into account the patient relevant …