Title :
Study on the simulation of outpatient operating room process and capacity planning in terms of cost optimization
Author :
Xu, Jing ; Liu, Zi-xian ; Li, Hui ; Liu, Jun-lan ; Li, Ya-fang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Manage. & Econ., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
According to the real practice of hospital outpatient operating rooms, the problem of process and capacity planning is analyzed by considering the rule of balancing and increasing the resource utilization; based on queuing theory, this paper brings out the outpatient operating room process upswing plan and establishes simulation models; then, this paper puts forward the total cost objective function of outpatient operating rooms, and uses FlexsimHC to solve a case with the model above, and then analyzes the system indicators and costs, and finally determines the most rational model. This paper can be well verified in outpatient operating room process and capacity planning, and provide a scientific quantitative basis for hospital management decision-making.
Keywords :
costing; decision support systems; health care; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; optimisation; queueing theory; resource allocation; FlexsimHC software; capacity planning; cost optimization; hospital management decision making; hospital outpatient operating room; outpatient operating room process; process upswing plan; queuing theory; resource utilization; simulation model; total cost objective function; Analytical models; Biological system modeling; Capacity planning; Hospitals; Optimization; Surgery; capacity planning; cost; outpatient operating room; queuing theory;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2011 IEEE 18Th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changchun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-446-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEEM.2011.6035510