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INTRODUCTION
Operations Research for Health Care (ORHC) focuses on the development and use of
operations research in health and health care. The journal publishes high-quality operations
research approaches to problems in health care from OR researchers and practitioners. ORHC
encourages contributions related to typical problem areas of health care such as: logistics,
finance and management accounting, policy, logistics and architecture as well as hospitals,
practices, and care (including home care and long term care).
Typical topics are therefore: forecasting, capacity planning, risk assessment, supply
chain management, long term care, home care, location and allocation, and appointment
planning, among others. The health care industry is one of the worlds largest and fastest-
growing industries. The largest emerging markets such as China and India might be expected
to enjoy competitive advantage of medical tourism. The healthcare industry in India is facing
increasing pressure to improve quality but also to reduce costs. In the heat and pressure of
competition, it is important to build an organization that drives change quickly.
Another important point was that generally there was a feeling among the doctors and
nurses that there was nothing to improve in the hospital, especially in Indian Healthcare
sector . Generally, improvement activities in hospitals, especially in India, are rarely based on
the industrial engineering tools and techniques. This is due to the fact that there is a lack of
interaction among the engineering institutions and healthcare sectors. The study shows that
industrial engineering tools could be effectively used in the healthcare industry as well. Since
industrial engineering tools and techniques are not wide-spread in hospitals, quality
improvement initiatives could be facilitated with academic partnership or research.
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Hospital Navigator improves patient flows through Operations Research and offers
clinical solutions from commercial "know how".
DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION
SYSTEMS OPTIMIZATION
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At Hospital Navigator we study the logistics of hospital services. We use management
science and Operations Research techniques to enable hospitals to treat patients better, to
meet performance targets and yet contain costs.
CONCLUSION
Our healthcare solutions enable doctors, nurses and managers to understand the
practicalities of how they deliver their services to patients. Hospital Navigator shows where
queues will form, how those queues will behave and how to eliminate them; what physical
resources, such as beds operating theatres, and imaging systems are needed and when; and
how to best organize the work of staff that delivers care.
REFERENCES
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19565110
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/operations-research-for-health-care/
http://www.systemsnavigator.com/sn_website/node/136
http://www.orms-today.org/orms-4-02/frmismanagement.html
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.c.jmea.201502.16.html