Healthcare Applications

Track Coordinators: Simon J E Taylor& Anastasia Anagnostou, Brunel University London; Todd R. Huschka, Mayo Clinic

The Healthcare Applications track addresses an important burgeoning area in which simulation can provide critical decision support for operational and strategic planning and decision making that individual providers (doctors/nurses, clinics, hospitals) face, as well as for policy issues that must be addressed by administering systems (e.g., hospitals, insurance companies and governments). Traditionally, this track has been broad in focus, incorporating Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics, Agent-Based Simulation, and/or Monte Carlo simulations, with a variety of applications. A common thread is the use of simulation tools to provide insight or to inform decisions for improved healthcare outcomes. Also, welcome are new modelling tools that address challenges with the conceptualization or implementation of healthcare systems, and general healthcare simulations.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Admissions and control
• Ancillary services
• Outpatient access
• Outpatient capacity analysis
• Epidemic modelling
• Medical decision making
• Emergency room access
• Healthcare systems
• Healthcare optimization
• Nurse scheduling
• Appointment scheduling
• General healthcare simulation