In healthcare, the planning and the management of resources are challenging as there are
always many complex and stochastic factors in both demand and supply. Simulation …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

Innovation in the sharing economy continues to thrive within healthcare systems. Emerging
internet platforms and traditional hospitals/alliances have created diverse healthcare …

Healthcare policies have the potential to impact the environment by improving public health
efficiency. It is unknown whether the Hierarchical Healthcare System (HHS), an important …

Patients who miss their appointments (no-shows) reduce revenues and impair the delivery
of quality healthcare. Much research has been devoted to identifying “no-show patients”. In …

With the increase in the number of patients with chronic diseases, the contradiction between
medical resources and the demand for medical services is increasingly stressed. The …

We developed a model to formulate the referral process in a tiered hospital system involving
a general hospital (GH) and community healthcare centers (CHCs), where green channels …

Health check is essential in medical diagnostic procedures, so double-check becomes
common if patients have physical examination/blood tests in one hospital but transfer to …

The Chinese healthcare referral system is a hierarchical system that includes medical
institutions at different levels to ensure high-quality medical resources available and …

The medical grid including hospitals at all levels is a new hierarchical diagnosis and
treatment system. It is assumed to provide health services for residents in a certain area …