Innovation in the sharing economy continues to thrive within healthcare systems. Emerging
internet platforms and traditional hospitals/alliances have created diverse healthcare …

The choice of care unit upon admission to the hospital is a challenging task because of the
wide variety of patient characteristics, uncertain needs of patients, and limited number of …

Abstract Service systems often feature multiple classes of customers with different service
needs and multiple pools of servers with different skillsets. How to efficiently match …

Providing patients with timely care from the appropriate unit involves both correct clinical
evaluation of patient needs and making admission decisions to effectively manage a unit …

Inpatient beds represent one of the most critical resources in hospitals, of which the
availability has been under increasing pressure in China. Such beds are usually to be either …

Increasing demand for hospitalization requires hospitals to optimize the admission
schedules of elective patients to minimize operation cost and improve service quality. In this …

Long boarding times have long been recognized as one of the main reasons behind
emergency department (ED) crowding. One of the suggestions made in the literature to …

Motivated by the growing availability of advanced demand forecast tools, we study how to
use future demand information in designing routing strategies in queueing systems under …

Inpatient flow management plays a critical role in care delivery, patient outcomes, and
hospital operational and financial costs. Modeling and performance analysis of inpatient …

Because a hospital is an interconnected, interdependent network of care units, allocating
resources—beds, nurses, and improvement initiatives—to one unit to reduce its congestion …