2645. Towards a hospital-wide simulation framework
Invited abstract in session TB-11: Hospitals, stream OR in Healthcare (ORAHS).
Tuesday, 10:30-12:00Room: Clarendon SR 1.03
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Melanie Reuter-Oppermann
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| Maastricht University, ILS Mannheim | |
| 2. | Michael O'Sullivan
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| Engineering Science, University of Auckland |
Abstract
Healthcare systems worldwide are complex service networks with many dependencies and interrelations. Within these networks, hospitals play a central role and serve as one of the key providers of healthcare services. In a hospital, all departments are connected, and every logistical decision can impact others. Due to the complexity, it is not possible to build mathematical optimisation models that address all aspects simultaneously. In addition, some decisions must be made onsite and in real-time. Simulation models can help with online decision making as well as analysing the potential consequences when transferring solutions from mathematical models into practice. With the support of the Julius von Haast Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand, we aim to design a hospital-wide simulation framework to model a complete hospital allowing to investigate all interdependencies and improvement potentials and to analyse the benefit of integrated planning. In this talk, we want to discuss valuable use cases for such a hospital-wide simulation framework, based on input we received from New Zealand hospitals, and present a conceptual model that we built for those hospitals.
Keywords
- Health Care
- Simulation
Status: accepted
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