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Regulating the construction of hospitals or vice versa: the courts and private hospital planning in Victoria.

Community Health Studies, 2010
This paper examines the legal framework for regulating the development of new private hospitals in Victoria. It first reviews the genesis of the statutory power for private hospital regulation and outlines the two court cases which clarified the ...
S. Duckett
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bed occupancy: the impact on hospital planning

, 2011
The ongoing rise in medical emergency admissions seen around the world over the past few decades has never been fully explained. Long-term trends in hospital bed occupancy in England, Canada and Australia are examined to show that a recurring pattern of ...
Rodney P. Jones
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents

arXiv.org
The recent rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has sparked a new wave of technological revolution in medical artificial intelligence (AI). While LLMs are designed to understand and generate text like a human, autonomous agents that utilize ...
Junkai Li, Siyu Wang, Meng Zhang, Weitao Li, Yunghwei Lai, Xinhui Kang, Weizhi Ma, Yang Liu   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system: hospital response to mass casualties and psychological issues in hospital planning

, 2005
On the morning of March 20, 1995 victims of an unknown odorless, colorless chemical agent began arriving in large numbers at the emergency department of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. The author was, at the time, the chief resident on
K. Taneda
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Enterprise resource planning for hospitals

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2004
Integrated hospitals need a central planning and control system to plan patients' processes and the required capacity. Given the changes in healthcare one can ask the question what type of information systems can best support these healthcare delivery organizations.
Siebren Groothuis, Godefridus G. van Merode, Arie Hasman   +2 more
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Sharing governmental authority: Blue Cross and hospital planning in New York City.

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 1991
Hospital planning in New York has been since the 1930s an intensely political process with high stakes. The leaders of Blue Cross and their allies used the hospital planning process in the city and the state as a means to extend and protect corporate ...
D. Fox
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Management of conventional mass casualty incidents: ten commandments for hospital planning.

Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2006
The successful management of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) requires standardization of planning, training, and deployment of response. Recent events in the United States, most importantly the Hurricane season in 2005, demonstrated a lack of a unified ...
M. Lynn, D. Gurr, A. Memon, Jennifer Kaliff   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Planning evolution in hospital management

Health Care Management Review, 1987
In today's competitive health care market, hospitals are adopting more sophisticated and aggressive planning systems. The development of hospital planning can be visualized as an evolutionary progression from financially based systems to advanced systems of strategic analysis.
Matthew F. Fors, Gilbert D. Harrell
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The effectiveness of community-based hospital planning: some recent evidence

, 1982
The effectiveness of centralized or community-based local planning of hospital resources is still a subject for debate in most countries. The general problem of overcapitilization on beds and equipment has been reviewed in a number of theoretical ...
S. Eastaugh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hospital planning in France and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 1980
This article on hospital planning programs in France and North-Rhine Westfalia (a state in the Federal Republic of Germany), assembles information on the formal building blocks of inter-organizational relations in the formulation and implementation ...
C. Altenstetter
semanticscholar   +1 more source