The healthcare industry is progressively involved in adopting new technologies to provide
improved quality of care given to patients. The implementation of RFID technology has …

We address the overcrowding problem in an emergency department (ED) by designing and
developing a hybrid methodology that combines design thinking with discrete event …

Abstract Introduction Overcrowding in the Emergency Department (ED) is one of the major
issues that must be addressed in order to improve the services provided in emergency …

Tag collision is a pressing issue in radio frequency identification systems which significantly
lowers the system performance if not mitigated carefully. This paper presents the Monte …

Long patient waiting time is one of the major problems in the healthcare system and it would
decrease patient satisfaction. Previous studies usually investigated how to improve the …

The overcrowding of the Emergency Department (ED) represents one of the main problems
to be faced with the aim to enhance the services offered in emergency situations and their …

Medication errors, which refer to any deviation from the prescribed medication regimen, can
have seriously affected patient safety and treatment outcomes. It underscores the need for …

Emergency medicine is a new discipline that is rapidly developing and spreading in medical
practice. The central themes of emergency medicine are resuscitation, laboratory and …

The purpose of this article is to identify and assess service delivery issues within a hospital
emergency department and propose an improved model to address them. Possible …

This study proposes a model for quantifying the feasibility of RFID in terms of finance,
operation-ability and technology. It describes, theoretically, the various inter-twined …