Health care is uncertain, dynamic, and fast growing. With digital technologies set to
revolutionise the industry, hospital capacity optimisation and planning have never been …

Hospitals are struggling to maintain a balance between demand and the capacity of
resources. It is difficult because demand is highly uncertain and resource capacity is limited …

Various medical and surgical units operate in a typical hospital and to treat their patients
these units compete for infrastructure like operating rooms (OR) and ward beds. How that …

A new approach to perform hospital case‐mix planning (CMP) is introduced in this article.
Our multicriteria approach utilizes utility functions (UF) to articulate the preferences and …

Evidence-based innovations are critical in optimising the delivery of healthcare services.
Process mining aims to provide healthcare stakeholders with insights, derived from historical …

This article showcases a personal decision support tool (PDST) called HOPLITE, for
performing insightful and actionable quantitative assessments of hospital capacity, to …

Background The aim of this study is to develop a method we call “cost mining” to unravel
cost variation and identify cost drivers by modelling integrated patient pathways from primary …

Given the premise that flexible infrastructure offers a way to increase hospital capacity, we
present the first general optimisation framework and guide for systematically (re) organising …

Background/Objectives: This article presents analytical techniques and a decision support
tool to aid in hospital capacity assessment and case mix planning (CMP). To date, no similar …

Process discovery aims to construct a business process model by extracting valuable
information from event logs. To extract process models from event logs, it is essential to have …