1. Ask every department to participate in promoting efficiency. Patient flow can be disrupted when separate departments and providers do not talk about the hold-ups in each area, Dr. Noonan says. “You ...

Optimization models have been used to generate a scheduling template that improves patient flow or efficiency of resource use. 1, 6 - 9, 11 - 17 Discrete-event simulation (DES) modeling has been used ...

On Monday, September 30, UAB Clinical Simulation and the Center for Patient Flow hosted the Z-bed Optimization Tabletop Sim. In order to increase capacity for our patients, Z-beds or virtual beds are ...

PSC is the home to one of the most advanced nursing simulation centers in the Southeastern United States. Students can safely practice in a controlled environment that can simulate a wide-range of ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University are developing a massive fluid dynamics simulator that can model blood flow through the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. One of the goals ...

Systematic Patient Navigation Strategies to Scale Breast Cancer Disparity Reduction by Improved Cancer Prevention and Care Delivery Processes Electronic health records (EHRs) have been mainly used to ...