Time motion studies were first described in the early 20th century in industrial engineering,
referring to a quantitative data collection method where an external observer captured …

This paper reviews the contributions and applications of queueing theory in the field of
health care management problems. This review proposes a system of classification of health …

Objectives A coordinated collaboration among different healthcare professionals in
Emergency Room (ER) processes is critical to promptly care for patients who arrive at the …

Problems related to patient scheduling and queueing in emergency departments are
gaining increasing attention in theory, in the fields of operations research and emergency …

Privacy preservation permits doctors to outsource the huge encrypted reports to the cloud
and permits the authenticated patients to have a safe search over the reports without leaking …

The management of patient flow, especially the flow resulting from health crises in
emergency departments (ED), is one of the most important problems managed by ED …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a hospital nursing unit that
has evaluated and approved a two‐bin “e‐kanban” replenishment system based on passive …

The objective of this paper was to develop an agent based modeling framework in order to
simulate the spread of influenza virus infection on a layout based on a representative …

Improving the quality of healthcare in emergency departments (EDs) is at the forefront of
many hospital managers' efforts, as they strive to plan and implement better patient flow …

Background Computer simulation studies of the emergency department (ED) are often
patient driven and consider the physician as a human resource whose primary activity is …