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Weekly home healthcare routing and scheduling with overlapping patient clusters. 具有重叠患者群的每周家庭医疗保健路由和调度。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-11-22 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2422494

Ai Zhao, Jonathan F Bard

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Towards new frontiers of healthcare systems research using artificial intelligence and generative AI. 利用人工智能和生成式人工智能开辟医疗保健系统研究的新领域。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-11-20 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2402128

Samir Chatterjee, Ann Fruhling, Kathy Kotiadis, Daniel Gartner

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Assistance systems for patient positioning in radiotherapy practice. 放射治疗中病人定位辅助系统。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-10-28 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2395567

Ralf Müller-Polyzou, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Jasmin Feger, Nicolas Meier, Anthimos Georgiadis

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Next-generation fall detection: harnessing human pose estimation and transformer technology. 下一代跌倒检测：利用人体姿态估计和变压器技术。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-10-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2395574

Edward R Sykes

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Hospital productivity and value in pay-for-performance healthcare programs. 医院生产力和按绩效付费医疗保健计划的价值。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-10-25 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2421533

Chenzhang Bao, Indranil R Bardhan

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Reallocation of chemotherapy appointments in a large health system using a mixed integer linear programming approach. 使用混合整数线性规划方法在大型卫生系统中重新分配化疗预约。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-10-23 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2415653

Lauren Moore, Yu-Li Huang

{"title":"Reallocation of chemotherapy appointments in a large health system using a mixed integer linear programming approach.","authors":"Lauren Moore, Yu-Li Huang","doi":"10.1080/20476965.2024.2415653","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20476965.2024.2415653","url":null,"abstract":"Outpatient chemotherapy scheduling has significant implications for both patients and health systems. Consideration of treatment location preference is important for patient satisfaction and outcomes, and it is a complex decision impacted by travel distance. In health systems with one treatment site that stands out from the rest as a destination medical center (the primary site), there are financial and resource utilization incentives to free up as much space as possible for appointments at that site. In this study, we demonstrate that leveraging the underutilized health system sites allows decompression of appointment volume at the primary site, and it takes full advantage of valuable resources such as oncology nurses and chair availability. A Mixed Integer Linear Programming approach was used to develop a model under four scenarios which reallocates appointments from the primary site to other health system sites based on patient travel distance to the sites. This approach was applied to data from the Mayo Clinic Health System Minnesota region, which demonstrated that the health system has the potential to move approximately 50% of eligible appointments out of the primary site, resulting in an overall volume change of approximately 30%. Implications for scheduling policies and infrastructure are discussed.","PeriodicalId":44699,"journal":{"name":"Health Systems","volume":"14 2","pages":"119-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12107644/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Balanced patient assignment to healthcare centres through dispatching rules. 通过调度规则平衡患者到医疗中心的分配。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-30 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2408543

Aydin Teymourifar, Maria A M Trindade

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Resilience of hospitals in an age of disruptions: a systematic literature review on resources and capabilities. 医院在混乱时代的应变能力：关于资源和能力的系统文献综述。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-06-27 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2365144

Nunzia Carbonara, Roberta Pellegrino, Cristina De Luca

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Improving COVID-19 vaccination centre operation through computer modelling and simulation. 通过计算机建模和模拟改善COVID-19疫苗接种中心的运作。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-04-09 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2339817

Richard M Wood, Simon J Moss, Ben J Murch, Chris Davies, Christos Vasilakis

{"title":"Improving COVID-19 vaccination centre operation through computer modelling and simulation.","authors":"Richard M Wood, Simon J Moss, Ben J Murch, Chris Davies, Christos Vasilakis","doi":"10.1080/20476965.2024.2339817","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20476965.2024.2339817","url":null,"abstract":"Mass vaccination has provided a route out of the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that social restrictions can be safely eased. For many countries, dedicated vaccination centres have been key to that effort. However, with no directly comparable historical experience there has been little information to guide the operational management and initial configuration of these sites. This paper provides an account of how, early in the mass vaccination effort, Operational Research has been a valuable asset in supporting management decisions at two major vaccination centres in the UK. We first describe a conceptual pathway model representing the key stages of the vaccination process, from registration to clinical assessment, vaccination, and observation. An approximation using discrete event simulation is then presented. On application, we report on its use in influencing the initial setup of one site, with model outputs directly setting the daily number of patient bookings. For the same site, we reveal how analysis has informed a significant operational shift in combining two key activities on the vaccination pathway (clinical assessment and vaccination). Finally, we describe how, at a second site, modelling has examined pathway stability, in terms of resilience to unforeseen \"shocks\" such as delayed arrivals and staff unavailability.","PeriodicalId":44699,"journal":{"name":"Health Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"43-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11843651/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Using participatory systems approaches to improve healthcare delivery. 利用参与式系统方法改善医疗保健服务。

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Health Systems Pub Date : 2024-01-13 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2023.2285555

Guillaume Lamé, Antuela Tako, Maaike Kleinsmann

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