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Use of indoor location technologies in healthcare contexts: A scoping review

The adoption of healthcare technologies has grown significantly, with real-time location systems (RTLSs) gaining particular attention. Despite decades of research, gaps persist in understanding the current state of the field and its future directions. This scoping review, conducted by PRISMA guidelines, identified 1718 articles retrieved from six databases, from which 83 were included. The findings reveal a dom...

Hospital operations management – characterising patients’ process flows in emer...

Purpose: This work aims to integrate the concepts generated by a systematic literature review on patient flows in emergency departments (ED) to serve as a basis for developing a generic process model for ED. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was conducted using PRISMA guidelines, considering Lean Healthcare interventions describing ED patients’ flows. The initial search found 141 artic...

Industrial management for industry 4.0 – simulation system to support learning ...

The fourth industrial revolution brings many opportunities for the exploration of new business models, based on increasing digitalization that ultimately enables the prediction of the behavior of systems. Several challenges may be identified in the Industrial Management (IM) field. One of the most relevant is the opportunity to deal with real-time data and adapt the decision-making processes with agile approach...

Prioritizing internal production on MRI waiting list management: an optimizatio...

This research intends to estimate the optimal monthly Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) production in a Portuguese public hospital. A time horizon of three years, containing detailed information about the ideal amount of daily production, is included in the evaluation. The objective is to minimize yearly MRI exams cost and maximize the internal production to gradually reduce the response time, which will consequ...

A systematized approach for reduction of medical appointment waiting list

Paper aims: This work aims to develop a systematized approach for the reduction of medical appointment waiting lists, proposing an optimization decision-making model followed by continuous people engagement towards a systematic approach for waiting list problem-solving. Originality: There are several studies related to waiting lists in healthcare contexts, however, the present study presents an innovative appro...

Reducing waiting time for orthopaedic consultation through a continuous improve...

The outpatient service of public hospitals has had many difficulties in responding to the high demand that are being subjected to. The waiting times for a medical appointment are well above the clinically recommended waiting time, compromising the patients' health status. To combat this trend, health authorities have set the maximum response time for consultations, financially penalizing hospitals for not meeti...

Analysing a meta-model for production scheduling in different kind of flow shop...

Meta-models enable to introduce dynamism and flexibility while trying to develop tools for solving a widened set of problems in a given application domain, which is considered nowadays to be of upmost importance, in the current Industry 4.0 era, and its underlying Cyber Physical Production Systems. In this paper a meta-model about flow shop scheduling problems is proposed, which enables to solve scheduling prob...

Optimization model for waiting list management and service continuous improvement

Purpose - This study aims to assess the number of hours*doctor required per day in each week, in a time horizon of 52 weeks, so that it is possible to gradually and controllably reduce the waiting list and the response time for the triage process that precedes the scheduling of an hospital appointment of orthopaedics speciality. A national decree law requires a response time equal or less than 5 days for the tr...

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