In recent decades, health care costs have dramatically increased, while health care
organisations have been under severe pressure to provide improved quality health care for …

Over the past 40 years, health care organizations have faced ever-increasing pressures to
deliver quality care while facing rising costs, lower reimbursements, and new regulatory …

The focus of this paper is to provide practical guidelines for designing service scheduling
support systems based on the Object-Orientation Approach (OOA). The advantages of OOA …

This working paper addresses the question posed in the title via a survey of 20 or so
experienced healthcare modellers and a literature review of over 100 books and articles …

This dissertation explores the possibility of applying the principles of the object-orientation
paradigm in the area of decision making, in general, and for scheduling healthcare services …

This research develops a discrete-event simulation model of the Queston Physician Network
using the Visual Simulation Environment (VSE), an object-oriented simulation software …

Decision making and management of health care in Greece is based mainly on financial
assessment. The partial privatization of Greek health care led to increased competition and …