This paper reviews the contributions and applications of queueing theory in the field of
health care management problems. This review proposes a system of classification of health …

Objective The timely reporting of critical results in radiology is paramount to improved patient
outcomes. Artificial intelligence has the ability to improve quality by optimizing clinical …

Effective resource requirement forecasting is necessary to reduce the escalating cost of care
by ensuring optimum utilization and availability of scarce health resources. Patient hospital …

Outpatient appointment system design is a complex problem because it involves multiple
stakeholders, sequential booking process, random arrivals, no-shows, varying degrees of …

Purpose The importance of patient wait-time management and predictability can hardly be
overestimated: For most hospitals, it is the patient queues that drive and define every bit of …

After a decade of calls for healthcare transformation, there is a convergence of themes in our
general orienting models. The core metaphor of health system as machine (with closed …

Background Clinical decision-making has been conceptualized as a sequence of two
separate processes: assessment of patients' functioning and application of a decision …

Background Hospital administrators are often challenged with overcrowding at hospitals.
The study hospital receives referred patients; however, they have to wait in long queues …

Little consideration is given to the operational reality of implementing national policy at local
scale. Using a case study from Norway, we examine how simple mathematical models may …

Healthcare management (HCM) is the profession providing control and guidance to health
service providers. Numerous quantitative and qualitative techniques including operations …