Results 291 to 300 of about 141,145 (350)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Adaptive appointment scheduling for patient-centered medical homes
Omega, 2019Incorporating patient-centered medical home (PCMH) principles, we develop an adaptive appointment scheduling model for a primary care setting. We propose a simulation optimization approach to sequentially schedule appointments to provide desirable ...
Ali K. Dogru, Sharif H. Melouk
semanticscholar +1 more source
NFC enabled intelligent hospital appointment and medication scheduling
2014 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT), 2014Patient Appointment and medication Scheduling is necessary to manage and keep efficient tracking of day to day functionalities in health sector. It may be mentioned that a well-designed appointment Scheduling System can help to deliver timely and convenient access to medical services and enhance patient satisfaction and physician efficiency.
Suresh Sankarananrayanan +1 more
openaire +1 more source
Dynamic appointment scheduling with patient preferences and choices
Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2015Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to maximize the expected revenue of the outpatient department considering patient preferences and choices. Design/methodology/approach – Patient preference refers to the preferred physician and time slot that patients hold ...
Jin Wang, Richard Y.K. Fung
openaire +1 more source
Appointment scheduling algorithm considering routine and urgent patients
Expert Systems with Applications, 2014Abstract This paper derives a solution approach to solve the outpatient appointment schedule problem for given numbers of routine and urgent patients considering a no-show probability to minimize the weighted sum of average patient wait time, physician idle time and overtime.
Jiafu Tang, Chongjun Yan, Pingping Cao
openaire +1 more source
Appointment scheduling and rescheduling problems in service systems
2023Appointment scheduling and rescheduling are important problems in service systems. A good appointment schedule can tolerate uncertainties that occur frequently, such as no-shows and last-minute cancellations. Some other uncertainties are rare events and generally ignored in making an appointment schedule.
openaire +2 more sources
Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities
IIE Transactions, 2008Appointment scheduling systems are used by primary and specialty care clinics to manage access to service providers, as well as by hospitals to schedule elective surgeries. Many factors affect the performance of appointment systems including arrival and service time variability, patient and provider preferences, available information technology and the
Diwakar Gupta, Brian Denton
openaire +1 more source
Integrated blood collection and appointment scheduling
2012Considering the processing requirements of donated blood, we study an integrated blood collection and appointment scheduling problem. We develop a mixed integer programming model to maximize the amount of donated blood that can be delivered to the processing center before spoilage as well as determine the schedule of donation appointments.
Mobasher, A. +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Mixed Appointment Scheduling: Managing Routine and Same-Day Appointments for Outpatient Clinics
Production and Operations ManagementThis article introduces a novel scheduling approach for managing a mix of routine and same-day appointments in an outpatient clinic. While the well-known carve-out scheduling (COS) policy reserves the provider capacity for same-day patients, its use of dedicated slots for each patient class may increase the risk of system underutilization or overload ...
Enayon Sunday Taiwo +3 more
openaire +1 more source
Appointment Planning and Scheduling in Outpatient Procedure Centers
2011This chapter provides a summary of the planning and scheduling decisions for outpatient procedure centers. A summary and background of outpatient procedure centers and their operations is provided along with the challenges faced by managers. Planning and scheduling decisions are discussed and categorized as either long-or short-term decisions. Examples
Bjorn Berg, Brian T. Denton
openaire +1 more source
Relationship of Scheduling Interval to Missed and Cancelled Clinic Appointments
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2008The interval between when a clinical appointment is created and when it occurs may affect the rate of missed and cancelled appointments, affecting access and loss to follow-up, key component of quality.We examined this relationship in various clinic types across Veterans Health Administration clinics nationwide.As the interval increased, the missed ...
Jeff, Whittle +4 more
openaire +2 more sources