Agents applied in health care: A review

D Isern, D Sánchez, A Moreno - International journal of medical informatics, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The agent-oriented paradigm has emerged as a viable approach for the
development of autonomic systems in the healthcare domain. This paper reviews …

Optimization of an appointment scheduling problem for healthcare systems based on the quality of fairness service using whale optimization algorithm and NSGA-II

A Ala, FE Alsaadi, M Ahmadi, S Mirjalili - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Effective appointment scheduling (EAS) is essential for the quality and patient satisfaction in
hospital management. Healthcare schedulers typically refer patients to a suitable period of …

Optimization of healthcare emergency departments by agent-based simulation

E Cabrera, M Taboada, ML Iglesias, F Epelde… - Procedia computer …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents an Agent-Based modeling and simulation to design a decision support
system (DSS) for the operation of Healthcare Emergency Departments (ED). This DSS aims …

Decision support for hospital bed management using adaptable individual length of stay estimations and shared resources

R Schmidt, S Geisler, C Spreckelsen - BMC medical informatics and …, 2013 - Springer
Background Elective patient admission and assignment planning is an important task of the
strategic and operational management of a hospital and early on became a central topic of …

Use of a simulation-based decision support tool to improve emergency department throughput

C Oh, AM Novotny, PL Carter, RK Ready… - Operations Research for …, 2016 - Elsevier
A simulation based decision support model was used in the redesign of an emergency
department (ED) with close to 180,000 visits per year. In order to accommodate high patient …

Simulation optimization for healthcare emergency departments

E Cabrera, M Taboada, ML Iglesias, F Epelde… - Procedia computer …, 2012 - Elsevier
This article presents an Agent-Based modeling (ABM) simulation to design a decision
support system (DSS) for Healthcare Emergency Department (ED). This DSS aims to aid …

An agent-based decision support system for hospitals emergency departments

M Taboada, E Cabrera, ML Iglesias, F Epelde… - Procedia Computer …, 2011 - Elsevier
Modeling and simulation have been shown to be useful tools in many areas of the
Healthcare operational management, field in which there is probably no area more dynamic …

Systematic review of the use of computer simulation modeling of patient flow in surgical care

BG Sobolev, V Sanchez, C Vasilakis - Journal of medical systems, 2011 - Springer
Computer simulation has been employed to evaluate proposed changes in the delivery of
health care. However, little is known about the utility of simulation approaches for analysis of …

Simulation modelling in healthcare: Challenges and trends

S Almagooshi - Procedia Manufacturing, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we describe simulation models in healthcare that have been developed in the
past two decades. Simulation systems, ranging from simulation of patient flow in emergency …

One hyper-heuristic approach to two timetabling problems in health care

B Bilgin, P Demeester, M Misir, W Vancroonenburg… - Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
We present one general high-level hyper-heuristic approach for addressing two timetabling
problems in the health care domain: the patient admission scheduling problem and the …