AIMC Topic: Hospital Administration

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Improving patient flow during infectious disease outbreaks using machine learning for real-time prediction of patient readiness for discharge.

PloS one
BACKGROUND: Delays in patient flow and a shortage of hospital beds are commonplace in hospitals during periods of increased infection incidence, such as seasonal influenza and the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to develop and eval...

Robotics Utilization for Healthcare Digitization in Global COVID-19 Management.

International journal of environmental research and public health
This paper describes the evolving role of robotics in healthcare and allied areas with special concerns relating to the management and control of the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The prime utilization of such robots is to ...

IoT Based Predictive Maintenance Management of Medical Equipment.

Journal of medical systems
Technological advancements are the main drivers of the healthcare industry as it has a high impact on delivering the best patient care. Recent years witnessed unprecedented growth in the number of medical equipment manufactured to aid high-quality pa...

Emergency Department Capacity Planning: A Recurrent Neural Network and Simulation Approach.

Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Emergency departments (EDs) play a vital role in the whole healthcare system as they are the first point of care in hospitals for urgent and critically ill patients. Therefore, effective management of hospital's ED is crucial in improving the quality...

A computer-based approach for data analyzing in hospital's health-care waste management sector by developing an index using consensus-based fuzzy multi-criteria group decision-making models.

International journal of medical informatics
BACKGROUND: Proper Health-Care Waste Management (HCWM) and integrated documentation in this sector of hospitals require analyzing massive data collected by hospital's health experts. This study presented a quantitative software-based index to assess ...

Real-time prediction of inpatient length of stay for discharge prioritization.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are challenged to provide timely patient care while maintaining high resource utilization. This has prompted hospital initiatives to increase patient flow and minimize nonvalue added care time. Real-time demand capacity managemen...

Performance Analysis of Hospital Managers Using Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS: Iranian Experience.

Global journal of health science
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Hospitals are complex organizations that require strong and effective management. The success of such organizations depends on the performance of managers. This study provides a comprehensive set of indicators to assess the...

Ensemble of trees approaches to risk adjustment for evaluating a hospital's performance.

Health care management science
A commonly used method for evaluating a hospital's performance on an outcome is to compare the hospital's observed outcome rate to the hospital's expected outcome rate given its patient (case) mix and service. The process of calculating the hospital'...

[Application of Intelligent Logistics System Based on AGV Robot in Medical Consumables Management].

Zhongguo yi liao qi xie za zhi = Chinese journal of medical instrumentation
OBJECTIVE: Medical consumables are expensive, with numerous specifications and large usage, and traditional manual management models have certain drawbacks. Building an intelligent logistics management system to improve management level.

Maturity degree assessment of hospital ward system using integrated fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS model.

Medicine
BACKGROUND: The hospital ward system is the core service unit of a hospital and an important aspect of hospital management. The maturity of the hospital ward system represents the level of development and improvement in ward management and services. ...