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Discrete-event Simulation and Optimization to Improve the Performance of a Healthcare System
Healthcare systems have attracted the attention of management and analysis due to their high percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) and increasing rate of growth of expenditures. Within the various types of healthcare problems, this dissertation focuses on resource allocation decisions because they can significantly ...
Depression Management Using Electronic Health Record: Individual Progression Prediction
Mitigating depression has become a national health priority and is the most common mental illness seen in primary care. Due to the complex dynamics of individual's depression trajectory, how to predict the progression of an individual patient's depression has long been an open problem. In this thesis, by using the electronic ...
Developing Domain-specific Simulation Objects for Modeling Clinical Laboratory Operations
Clinical laboratories play a critical role in patient diagnosis, treatment planning and prevention of disease. The inherent complexity of clinical laboratories lies both in the volume and variety of specimen types, which varies by time of day/week and hospital census; different handling and processing requirements based on ...
Improving Efficiency in Allocating Pediatric Ambulatory Care Clinics
Low utilized resources is a common problem in the health care sector. As health care costs and the need for more efficient operations increases, managers are looking for new methods to increase the utilization of their resources. At Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, managers of the outpatient pediatric ambulatory care ...