Some Origins of Operations Research in the Health Services
Operations Research
Managing Patient Service in a Diagnostic Medical Facility
Operations Research
Enabling ubiquitous patient monitoring: Model, decision protocols, opportunities and challenges
Decision Support Systems
Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for a Diagnostic Resource
Operations Research
An RFID network design methodology for asset tracking in healthcare
Decision Support Systems
Enriching events to support hospital care
Proceedings of the 7th Middleware Doctoral Symposium
A decision support system for patient scheduling in travel vaccine administration
Decision Support Systems
A framework for enabling patient monitoring via mobile ad hoc network
Decision Support Systems
Operations management applied to home care services: Analysis of the districting problem
Decision Support Systems
Assessing the impact of stochasticity for operating theater sizing
Decision Support Systems
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A cardiac diagnostic testing center (CDTC) makes real-time scheduling decisions that impact the use of its resources and the availability of telemetry-equipped beds within a hospital. Both inpatients and outpatients are frequent users of CDTC resources, and physicians prescribe one of several single-phase or multiple-phase test protocols. This complex online decision-making environment is modeled as a finite-horizon, discrete-time Markov decision process (MDP), but the growth of the state space motivates the introduction of a fast heuristic for real-time decision support. We therefore introduce a dynamic network scheduling tool which is both more flexible and more robust, making it applicable to the various configurations that may be found in practically any CDTC. We evaluate this new method computationally using simulation, comparing it to both an MDP model for small instances, and to the existing operational practice at our partner hospital for more realistic sized problems.