What is it about?
The article discusses various aspects of modelling patient tranportation tasks in hospitals and shows approaches for solving the respective planning problems including simulation and the usage of metaheuritics optimization techniques.
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Why is it important?
Patient transportation is an important logistics planning problem in hospitals as it is a precondition for medical treatments and due to the involved costs. Moreover, the problem shows various particularities which distinguish it from standard transportation problems and which might differ according to the considered organization. Therefore, an adequate modelling is essential and solution techniques require adaptation to the considered model.
Perspectives
We hope to stimulate further research on logistics planning in hospitals and user-friendly software solutions to be applied in practice,
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanne
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
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This page is a summary of: Bringing Robustness to Patient Flow Management Through Optimized Patient Transports in Hospitals, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, June 2009, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1080.0379.
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