TY - GEN
T1 - Model driven healthcare
T2 - 2010 43rd Winter Simulation Conference, WSC'10
AU - Eldabi, Tillal
AU - Jun, Gyuchan T.
AU - Clarkson, John
AU - Connell, Con
AU - Klein, Jonathan H.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Over the past decades simulation has been recognized as a vital tool for solving problems within the healthcare sector, almost catching up with other areas. It is evident that healthcare systems are rapidly evolving into complex and dynamic environments whilst bearing a multitude of stakeholders. Simulation has originally emerged from military and manufacturing applications that mainly follow sequential processing with pre-specified targets. Such an approach is too rigid and irrelevant to the complexity and dynamism of healthcare systems, where lack of understanding is a common feature. This is mainly attributed to lack of understating of the life cycle of healthcare services. In this paper we attempt to define the life cycle of healthcare services and explore the use of modeling and simulation in supporting healthcare service development and management. We particularly explore a number of exemplars of how modeling was used to support earlier stages of the service life cycle.
AB - Over the past decades simulation has been recognized as a vital tool for solving problems within the healthcare sector, almost catching up with other areas. It is evident that healthcare systems are rapidly evolving into complex and dynamic environments whilst bearing a multitude of stakeholders. Simulation has originally emerged from military and manufacturing applications that mainly follow sequential processing with pre-specified targets. Such an approach is too rigid and irrelevant to the complexity and dynamism of healthcare systems, where lack of understanding is a common feature. This is mainly attributed to lack of understating of the life cycle of healthcare services. In this paper we attempt to define the life cycle of healthcare services and explore the use of modeling and simulation in supporting healthcare service development and management. We particularly explore a number of exemplars of how modeling was used to support earlier stages of the service life cycle.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951592107&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2010.5678925
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2010.5678925
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951592107
SN - 9781424498666
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 2271
EP - 2282
BT - Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC'10
Y2 - 5 December 2010 through 8 December 2010
ER -