Simulation Applications in a Healthcare Setting

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Author(s): Roque Perez-Velez (Management Engineering Consulting Services, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 23
Source title: Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery: Principles and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alexander Kolker (Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, USA)and Pierce Story (GE Healthcare, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-872-9.ch004

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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The author will attempt to answer the questions above by means of examples, anecdotes, real-case simulation models, and experiences while developing problem-solving models for a healthcare system. Some of the problem-solving models discussed include labor and delivery room utilization, neonatal intensive care unit expansion, emergency department staffing and process improvement, radiology process improvement, patient transport, operating room elective case surgery optimization, partial pediatric unit conversion to Intermediate Medical Care unit, family practice, and women’s health clinics.

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