Nowadays, the volume of the information gathered by any organization increases more and more rapidly. It is essential to be able to use this information efficiently for it to benefit the operation of the organization. There is no point of gathering the ...

Length of hospital stay is one of the most appropriate measures that can be used for management of hospital resources and assistant of hospital admissions. The main predictive factors associated with the length of stay are critical requirements and should ...

Food service provided in hospitals has considerable significance, as it is part of the medical treatment. In a sample hospital, food delivery error occupied 37.4% which was the highest complaint among all problems in 2017. This problem has never been ...

There is a growing amount of data in the databases of hospitals. These data could be exploited to alleviate the decision-making process of hospital managers, physicians and researchers. However, these types of end-users often lack the expertise ...

There is a growing necessity in various domains for non-programmers to be able to retrieve information gathered about the operation of the organization and stored in its databases. This information could hugely benefit the decision making process of the ...

A management dashboard is a visual tool used by managers to monitor organizational performance. It involves displaying information about the state of the organization to decision-making. A management dashboard must thus enable the manager to obtain a ...

This paper proposes analytics for hospital management by using big data stored in a hospital information system. The key idea is analytics based on temporal information, whose visualization captures what domain experts cannot grasp from the raw data. ...

This paper proposes an ant colony optimization (ACO) approach to offer online decision support for making admission plans of inpatients. The approach considers patients' severity degrees and urgency levels, aiming to find an admission plan that offers ...

A simulation model is used to analyze the bed mix for a cardiac surgery intensive care unit and its step-down unit. The model uses historical length of stay data from more than 1,700 cardiac surgery encounters to estimate the maximum capacity of a 30 ...

US hospitals often now operate at full capacity, frequently causing incoming ER patients to be staged in ER hallways or detoured to more distant facilities. The process of moving patients from the ER is complex, requiring matching of resources to the ...

Cost accounting according to diagnoses covering approximately 600 inpatients with 64 diseases in 20 departments of Kumamoto University was carried out. The reports of these results were automatically generated and used for individual departmental ...