This work contributes to the practice of healthcare system modelling, by presenting an urgent issue: the growing process of integrated healthcare supply networks in reducing public healthcare systems’ annual expenses and improving performance. Various critical aspects affect the strategic design and development of healthcare logistic networks in practice. The conceptual discussion is empiricall...

in this paper, a new approach was presented for bus network design which took the effects of three out of four stages of the bus planning process into account. the presented model consisted of three majors steps 1- network design procedure (ndp), 2- frequency determination and assignment procedure (fdap), and 3- network evaluation procedure (nep). genetic algorithm (ga) was utilized to solve th...

Healthcare Waste Management (HWM) is considered as one of the important urban decision-making problems due to its potential environmental, economic, and social risks damages. The network HWM system involves decisions such facility locating, inventory management, transportation management. Moreover, with growing concerns towards sustainable development objectives, systems should address environm...

Healthcare insurance firms are experimenting with integrating self-managed healthcare elements into their product and service design and making these available through transnational healthcare information systems (THISs). The purpose of this article is to analyze this technology using a socio-technical theoretical lens. Drawing from a longitudinal case study, this paper unravels some of the des...

OBJECTIVE To use social network analysis to design more effective strategies for vaccinating healthcare workers against influenza. DESIGN An agent-based simulation. SETTING A simulation based on a 700-bed hospital. METHODS We first observed human contacts (defined as approach within approximately 0.9 m) performed by 15 categories of healthcare workers (eg, floor nurses, intensive care uni...

a r t i c l e i n f o The purpose of this research is to provide decision makers with a methodology to optimize the design of a medical-asset tracking system constrained by a limited number of RFID readers. Using an enhanced formulation of the maximal covering location problem along with a new criticality index analysis metric (derived from the severity, frequency and dwell time of the critical...

Healthcare payers are exploring cost-containing policies to steer patients, through qualified information and financial incentives, towards providers offering the best value proposition. With Reference Pricing (RP), a payer or insurer determines a maximum amount paid for a procedure, and patients who select a provider charging more pay the difference. In a Tiered Network (TN), providers are str...

Presently global healthcare is being hampered by information chaos which in turn leads to inferior decision making, ineffective and inefficient operations, exponentially increasing costs and even loss of life. To alleviate this predicament the merits of adopting and adapting the doctrine of network centric operations to healthcare has been recommended [1]. Critical to this approach is the abili...