Why healthcare professionals are slow to adopt modeling and simulation

Author

Fackler, J. ; Hankin, J. ; Young, Terry

Author_Institution

Sch. of Med., Bloomberg Children´´s Center, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This panel session is designed to explore the reasons why healthcare fails to adopt simulation and modeling techniques, and will seek to highlight ways towards greater adoption. The aim of the panel is to have a sustained dialogue with and amongst the audience. The agenda for the discussion will cover care delivery in a variety of contexts, including, the US and UK, hospital based and in more distributed systems and operations and workforce management. It will also address the use of computer games in simulation and modeling, frameworks within which simulation modeling may best be accomplished and the steps needed to overcome barriers in each community needed to see a greater uptake of simulation modeling in healthcare.

Keywords

computer games; health care; hospitals; UK; US; care delivery; computer games; distributed systems; hospital; operations management; simulation-and-modeling techniques; workforce management; Communities; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Hospitals; Mathematical model; Pediatrics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter

Conference_Location

Berlin

ISSN

0891-7736

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4779-2

Electronic_ISBN

0891-7736

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2012.6465330

Filename

6465330