Getting started in simulation in healthcare
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
A simulation study of the labor and delivery rooms at JMH
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Simulation with Arena
A survey of data resources for simulating patient flows in healthcare delivery systems
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Comparing simulation alternatives based on quality expectations
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
A simulator to improve waiting times at a medical imaging center
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
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Ancillary departments, which include radiology services, are among the important factors that affect the efficiency of patient care in a hospital. This paper presents results from a collaborative research effort with a healthcare provider that is in the process of implementing a digital image archiving system within its radiology services. The objective of this study was to identify the changes to the existing workflow at the CT Scan area with the implementation of the digitized archiving system to maximize patient throughput and minimize report generation time. Process mapping was used to identify the initial flow of operations. A simulation model was then built to evaluate the different what-if scenarios that were expected to 'optimize' the aforementioned response variables. Several key suggestions were also presented and validated using simulation. These include increasing the number of reading radiologists, re-allocation of CT Scan machine resources and the addition of a patient holding area.