Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery [electronic resource] /
Pardalos, Panos M.editor.(orcid)0000-0003-2824-101Xhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2824-101Xedt
Georgiev, Pando G.editor.
Papajorgji, Petraq.editor.
Neugaard, Britta.editor.
This book presents some recent systems engineering and mathematical tools for health care along with their real-world applications by health care practitioners and engineers. Advanced approaches, tools, and algorithms used in operating room scheduling and patient flow are covered. State-of-the-art results from applications of data mining, business process modeling, and simulation in healthcare, together with optimization methods, form the core of the volume. Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery illustrates the increased need of partnership between engineers and health care professionals. This book will benefit researchers and practitioners in health care delivery institutions, staff members and professionals of specialized hospital units, and lecturers and graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics, business administration and health care.
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Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery; Preface; Contents; Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Radiotherapy Problems; 1 Introduction; 2 Total Marrow Irradiation; 2.1 Beam Orientation Optimization; 2.2 Fluence Map Optimization; 2.2.1 Alternate Line Search Techniques; 2.2.2 Warm Start Approaches; 2.3 Results; 3 Gamma Knife ® PerfexionTM; 3.1 Relation to IMRT Optimization; 3.2 Sector Duration Optimization; 3.3 Results; 4 Conclusions; References; Portable Asset Management in Hospitals; 1 Introduction; 2 Common Portable Asset Management Models; 2.1 Centralized Systems
2.2 Semi-Centralized Systems2.3 Decentralized Systems; 3 RFID and Portable Asset Management; 4 Portable Asset Management Systems Analysis; 5 Summary; References; Stochastic Integer Programming in Healthcare Delivery; 1 Introduction; 2 Stochastic Integer Programming; 3 Healthcare Resource Allocation Problems; 3.1 Allocating Ambulances Using Stochastic Integer Programming; 3.2 Medical Facility Location; 4 Healthcare Operations Management; 4.1 Operating Room Optimization; 4.2 Operating Room Planning; 4.3 Operational Decisions in ORs; 4.4 Downstream Constraints; 4.5 Nurse Assignment
5 Open Challenges6 Conclusions; References; An Expository Discourse of E-Health; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Telemedicine; 4 Personalized E-Health; 5 Service-Oriented Computing, Grid Computing, and Cloud Computing; 6 Quality Linkages of E-Health; 7 Patient Centered Care Linkages of E-Health; 8 Educational Linkages of E-Health; 9 Issues, Controversies, and Problems; 10 Solutions and Recommendations; 11 Conclusion; References; Nurse Scheduling Problem: An Integer Programming Model with a Practical Application; 1 Introduction; 2 The Problem Description: Goals and Requirements
2.1 Two Stages of Nurse Scheduling Problem2.2 Data of Nurse Scheduling Problem; 2.3 The Requirements of NSP: Hard and Soft Constraints; 3 Binary Integer Programming Formulation; 3.1 Notations; 3.1.1 Index; 3.1.2 Hard Constraints Parameters; 3.1.3 Soft Constraints Parameters; 3.2 Decision Variables; 3.3 Constraints; 3.4 Objective Functions; 4 Implementations and a Practical Example; 5 Conclusion; 6 Appendix 1: Results of Nurse Scheduling with One Preference Shift in a Week
7 Appendix 2: Results of Assignments with Respect to Each Day with One Preference Shift in a Week (Employees Who Do Not Appear in this Table Mean They Do Not Need to Work in that Corresponding Week)8 Appendix 3: Results of Nurse Scheduling with Two Preferences Shift (One for Weekdays and One for Weekends); 9 Appendix 4: Results of Assignments with Respect to Each Day with Two Preferences for Weekdays and Weekends (Employees Who Do Not Appear in this Table Mean They Do Not Need to Work in that Corresponding Week); References; Clinical Data Mining to Discover Optimal Treatment Patterns
1 Introduction
Includes bibliographical references.
This book presents some recent systems engineering and mathematical tools for health care along with their real-world applications by health care practitioners and engineers. Advanced approaches, tools, and algorithms used in operating room scheduling and patient flow are covered. State-of-the-art results from applications of data mining, business process modeling, and simulation in healthcare, together with optimization methods, form the core of the volume. Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery illustrates the increased need of partnership between engineers and health care professionals. This book will benefit researchers and practitioners in health care delivery institutions, staff members and professionals of specialized hospital units, and lecturers and graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics, business administration and health care.
Mathematical optimization.
Operations research.
Management science.
Health administration.
Mathematical models.
Optimization.
Operations Research, Management Science.
Health Administration.
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.