This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

In the service industry, scheduling medical procedures causes difficulties for both patients
and management. Factors such as fluctuations in customer demand and service time affect …

In the last years, the world has witnessed a potential increasing in the patient number
resulted from the increasing number of aged persons along with the emergence of new virus …

A physician schedule that maximizes continuity (ie, reduces instances of patients being
treated by multiple physicians) could improve the efficiency of handoffs—the transfer of …

Medical appointment and consultation is of necessity in the field of medicine which gives the
doctor the opportunity to access, examine, test and diagnose a patient of an ailment or …

Background Due to the rising demand in home healthcare services in France as well as in
other European countries, homecare organizations are facing challenges in terms of …

In this article, we present a framework for solving a real-world multi time-windows home-
healthcare scheduling problem. The goal of our approach is to assign homecare workers to …

This paper compares the performance measures of traditional appointment scheduling (AS)
with those of an open‐access appointment scheduling (OA‐AS) system with exponentially …

On average, a person who lives in the US spends twice on healthcare compared to another
person in wealthy countries (OECD, 2019). In 2019 the healthcare expenditure in the US …

High patient no-show rates increase health care costs, decrease healthcare access, and
reduce the clinical efficiency and productivity of health care facilities. The purpose of this …