We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

Industry 4.0 has transformed manufacturing industry into a new paradigm. In a manner
similar to manufacturing, health care delivery is at the dawn of a foundational change into …

Managing inventories in the blood supply chain is a challenging task, mainly due to the
uncertain nature of the demand for blood units, the perishable nature of the blood, and a …

Hospitals are complex systems with essential societal benefits and huge mounting costs.
These costs are exacerbated by inefficiencies in hospital processes, which are often …

Identification of hospital sites and their ranking is important for the planning and
development of any country's health infrastructure. The site selection problem is a typical …

In a joint effort between the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine,
this books attempts to bridge the knowledge/awareness divide separating health care …

E‐healthcare platforms start to integrate medical services across online and offline
channels, where providers can perform online consultations, schedule patients' offline visits …

Big data analytics (BDA) is of paramount importance in healthcare aspects such as patient
diagnostics, fast epidemic recognition, and improvement of patient management. The …

Annual influenza outbreaks incur great expenses in both human and monetary terms, and
billions of dollars are being allocated for influenza pandemic preparedness in an attempt to …