Patent ID: 7925603

Claim:
A computer implemented method for displaying, analyzing, simulating and optimizing the flow of a population of patients in a health care facility comprising a computer performing the steps of: recording data in electronically accessible form, the data pertaining to the movement and location of each patient of the population of patients at a plurality of locations within said facility, the plurality of locations including at least one treatment location and at least one queuing location; generating patient flow statistics describing the movement of said population of patients within said facility based on said data; creating a mathematical model to represent patient treatment at said treatment locations and patient transit between said treatment locations and said queuing locations based on said patient flow statistics, the mathematical model including at least one differential equation representing a treatment rate at said treatment location based on said patient flow statistics and at least one differential equation representing an arrival rate at said treatment location based on the treatment rate and the patient flow statistics for said treatment location; selecting theoretical data regarding at least one of patient treatment or patient transit in said facility; applying said theoretical data to said mathematical model and generating theoretical patient population flow statistics by said application of said theoretical data.