Journal of Enterprise Information Management: Volume 26 Issue 1/2

Healthcare planning and its potential role increasing operational efficiency in the health sector: A viewpoint

Anthony Virtue, Thierry Chaussalet, John Kelly

The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of issues around the poor adoption of healthcare simulation models and reflect whether there has been a broad failure of academic…

Operations research within UK healthcare: a review

Masoud Fakhimi, Jane Probert

The purpose of this paper is to identify the existing literature on the wide range of operations research (OR) studies applied to healthcare, and to classify studies based on…

A conceptual framework for hybrid system dynamics and discrete event simulation for healthcare

Kirandeep Chahal, Tillal Eldabi, Terry Young

The purpose of this paper is to develop a generic framework for hybrid (integrated deployment of system dynamics and discrete event simulation) simulation which can be applied in…

Framework for detailed workflow analysis and modelling for simulation of multi‐modal image‐guided interventions

Fabiola Fernández‐Gutiérrez, Iain Barnett, Bruce Taylor, Graeme Houston, Andreas Melzer

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for analysing and modelling detailed workflow of image‐guided interventions to facilitate simulation and the re‐engineering…

Cost‐effective workforce planning: optimising the dental team skill‐mix for England

Paul Harper, Eleanor Kleinman, Jennifer Gallagher, Vincent Knight

As increasing numbers of older people retain their teeth for longer, the result is a dramatic change in both the volume and type of dental treatment required. In response to the…

Defining an optimal ED fast track strategy using simulation

Jennifer La, Elizabeth M. Jewkes

The Emergency Department (ED) at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario sought insight into strategies that would reduce patient length of stay and queuing for initial…

Using simulation to evaluate a blood supply network in the Canadian maritime provinces

John Blake, Matthew Hardy

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact on customer service of amalgamating two production/distribution facilities in a blood distribution network, located in the…

Economic comparison between Hospital at Home and traditional hospitalization using a simulation‐based approach

Carlos Rodríguez Verjan, Vincent Augusto, Xiaolan Xie, Valérie Buthion

Hospital at Home (HAH) is a concept slowly expanding over time. At first this type of organization was used to accomplish low‐technical tasks. The main objective was to increase…

Implementing a Monte‐Carlo simulation on admission decisions

Ofir Ben‐Assuli, Moshe Leshno

Although very significant and applicable, there have been no formal justifications for the use of Monte‐Carlo models and Markov chains in evaluating hospital admission decisions…

Electronic health records: A simulation model to measure the adoption rate from policy interventions

Peter Otto, Dorit Nevo

The purpose of this paper is to understand one aspect of electronic health record adoption by studying the impact of policy interventions on the adoption among hospitals…

An investigation of a healthcare management system with the use of multimodal interaction and 3D simulation: A technical note

Salsabeel F.M. AlFalah, David K. Harrison, Vassilis Charissis, Dorothy Evans

Current healthcare applications produce a complex and inaccessible set of data that often needs to be investigated simultaneously. As such the conflicting software applications…