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The healthcare industry has recently faced the issues of enhancing patient care, streamlining healthcare operations, and offering high-quality services at reasonable costs. These crucial issues include general healthcare administration, resource allo...

This study is dedicated to solving the problem of how urban healthcare systems function in crisis situations. Cases where crisis situations lead either to population migrations or to a rapid increase in demand for medical services are the focus. Ther...

Background: Healthcare systems are increasingly strained by limited operating room resources and rising demand, a situation intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. These pressures have resulted in overcrowded surgical departments, prolonged waiting tim...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting mental health worldwide, particularly among healthcare workers (HCWs). Risk and protective factors for depression and generalized anxiety in healthcare workers need to be identified to protect their heal...

Equity in accessible healthcare is crucial for measuring health equity in community care policy. The most important objective of such a policy in Taiwan is empowering people and communities by improving health literacy and increasing access to health...

Background: Although the expansion of medical resources has largely alleviated challenges of “more diseases but fewer medicines”, the growing urbanization and rapid aging in China have led to increasing demands of healthcare services in m...

Heart failure (HF) remains a significant burden on global healthcare systems, necessitating innovative approaches for its management. This manuscript critically evaluates the role of remote monitoring and telemedicine in revolutionizing HF care deliv...

In healthcare applications, numerous sensors and devices produce massive amounts of data which are the focus of critical tasks. Their management at the edge of the network can be done by Fog computing implementation. However, Fog Nodes suffer from la...

Background: Emerging pandemics can rapidly overwhelm hospital capacity, leading to increased mortality and healthcare costs. Objective: We develop an optimization-based framework that dynamically schedules hospital beds across multiple facilities to...

Healthcare decision-makers face difficult decisions regarding COVID-19 booster selection given limited budgets and the need to maximize healthcare gain. A constrained optimization (CO) model was developed to identify booster allocation strategies tha...

This study implements a minded approach to studying Ebola virus disease (EVD) by dividing the infected population into aware and unaware groups and including a hospitalized compartment. This offers a more detailed understanding of illness distributio...

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) provides the ability to interpret massive amounts of data, which many industries are already taking advantage of. This contribution aims to investigate the potential applications of A.I. in healthcare in order to unders...

The aim of this study is to develop a convenient and effective entropy analysis method for assessing the efficiency of workload distribution among medical institution personnel. This research is based on a model for evaluating employee workload in co...

Background/Objectives: Efficient and personalized task allocation in hospital emergency departments (EDs) is critical for operational efficiency and patient-centered care. However, the complexity of staff coordination and the variability among patien...

Shared decision-making (SDM) is an essential component of patient-centered healthcare and disease management. However, the association of SDM with healthcare resource utilization and patient-reported outcomes among multimorbid individuals is not well...

In recent years, the healthcare market has grown very fast and is dealing with a huge increase in data. Healthcare applications are time-sensitive and need quick responses with fewer delays. Fog Computing (FC) was introduced to achieve this aim. It c...

Background/Objectives: Few studies have assessed barriers to providing care from the perspective of interprofessional healthcare providers. Despite Idaho’s predominantly rural geography, limited research exists assessing barriers to providing c...

In China, upper-level healthcare (ULHC) and lower-level healthcare (LLHC) provide different public medical and health services. Only when these two levels of healthcare resources are distributed equally and synergistically can the public’s dema...

This narrative review explores the multifaceted barriers hindering access to quality cancer care in Jordan. A literature-based narrative review was undertaken to explore the current identified barriers to cancer care in Jordan. Four databases were se...

This paper addresses the critical challenge of optimal allocation and scheduling of Internet of Things (IoT) tracking devices for patient monitoring in healthcare facilities, where limited resources must be efficiently distributed to minimize cost an...

The rural three-tier healthcare system is an essential part of the Chinese healthcare service system. To ensure rural residents’ equal access to such healthcare services, it is necessary to examine the current status of the healthcare system in...

Background/Objectives: Healthcare systems face persistent challenges in improving efficiency, optimizing resources, and delivering high-quality care. Traditional continuous improvement methodologies often rely on subjective assessments, while data-dr...

In this study, we explore optimal service allocation within the Chinese hierarchical healthcare system with green channels, providing valuable insights for practitioners to understand how optimal service allocation is affected by various realistic fa...

Sustainable healthcare systems are gaining more importance in the era of globalization. The efficient planning with sustainable resources in healthcare systems is necessary for the patient’s satisfaction. The proposed research considers perform...

The installed productive capacity of a healthcare center’s equipment limits the efficient use of its resources. This paper, therefore, analyzes the installed productive capacity of a hospital angiography room and how to optimize patient demand....

The optimization of maintenance in healthcare buildings reduces operating costs and contributes towards increasing the sustainability of the healthcare system. This paper proposes a tool to schedule preventive maintenance for healthcare centers using...

Healthcare supply chain management operates amid fluctuating patient demand, rapidly advancing biotechnologies, and unpredictable supply disruptions pose high risks and create an imperative for sustainable resource optimization. This study investigat...

The revolution in information technologies, and the spread of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city industrial systems, have fostered widespread use of smart systems. As a complex, 24/7 service, healthcare requires efficient and reliable follow...

Optimizing work shifts in healthcare is crucial for maintaining high standards of service delivery and fostering professional development. This study delves into the emerging field of skill-oriented work shift optimization, focusing specifically on r...

The aim of this study is to examine the role of Compassion towards others as a mediator between Social Job Resources (social support climate, coordination, and positive leadership), Healthy Employees (psychological well-being such as resilience, enga...

Introduction: This study assessed healthcare utilization in the first year after combat-related lower extremity injuries in 4275 U.S. Service members. Varying injury severity was hypothesized to correlate with different utilization patterns, with the...

Eliminating unnecessary healthcare waste in hospitals and providing better healthcare quality are the core issues of green supply chain management (GSCM). Hence, this study used a hospital’s emergency department crowding (EDC) problem to illust...

Healthcare systems in low-resource settings need effective methods for managing their scant resources, especially people and equipment. Digital technologies may provide means for circumventing the constraints hindering low-income economies from impro...

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a promising technology for healthcare applications since it reduces the latency necessary in acquiring healthcare data from patients, as well as handling remote patients. Due to the interference, limited band...

Background: In South Africa, diabetic foot complications (DFC) often present for the first time at the primary healthcare (PHC) level, where nurses are central to diabetes management and prevention. Despite their key role, there are limited data on n...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are particularly susceptible to respiratory infections like influenza, which exacerbate symptoms and increase healthcare utilization. While smoking cessation and influenza vaccination are recommen...

The provision of efficient healthcare services is essential, driven by the increasing demand for healthcare resources and the need to optimize hospital operations. In this context, the motivation to innovate and improve services while addressing urge...

Addressing the ongoing challenge of rising healthcare spending is crucial for ensuring the health quality of a population. At the core of healthcare systems, health professionals play a vital role in patient care and resource utilization. Despite hea...

In the last 20 years, efforts were made to optimize antibiotic use in hospitals across the world as a means of addressing the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance. Despite robust evidence supporting optimal practice, antibiotic decision-making...

Integrated healthcare has received considerable attention and has developed into the highly important health policy known as Integrated Healthcare in County (IHC) against the background of the Grading Diagnosis and Treatment System (GDTS) in rural Ch...

Electronic health records (EHRs) are a critical tool in healthcare and capture a wide array of patient information that can inform clinical decision-making. However, the sheer volume and complexity of EHR data present challenges for healthcare provid...

Outbreaks of infectious diseases or multi-casualty incidents have the potential to generate a large number of patients. It is a challenge for the healthcare system when demand for care suddenly surges. Traditionally, valuation of heath care spatial a...

The increasing challenges of healthcare systems demand innovative approaches to resource optimization, particularly for hospitals operating under economic and operational constraints. This study investigates the organizational and managerial factors...

In Sweden, physical activity on prescription (PAP) is used to support patients in increasing their levels of physical activity (PA). The role of healthcare professionals in supporting PA behavior change requires optimization in terms of knowledge, qu...

Breast cancer detection is a critical task in healthcare, requiring fast, accurate, and efficient diagnostic tools. However, the high computational demands and latency of deep learning models in medical imaging present significant challenges, especia...

Smart city and smart hospital development comprise a mainstream strategy worldwide to enhance the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. The smart healthcare industry needs to optimize...

Healthcare expenditures in Australia have grown steadily in recent years, intensifying fiscal pressures and exposing challenges related to unequal resource distribution. While traditional statistical methods struggle to capture complex data relations...

This paper estimated and evaluated the spatial–temporal evolution of the concentration of healthcare resources (HCRs), in 31 provinces in China between 2004 and 2017, by using the entropy method. The spatial Durbin model (SDM) was used to furth...

Prehospital care, and especially emergency medical services (EMSs), are facing an increasing demand, while experiencing financial pressure. Strategies aimed at improving prehospital care management emphasize the efficient utilization of resources, bu...

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare, from wearable sensors to implantable medical devices, has revolutionised patient monitoring, personalised treatment, and remote care delivery. However, the resource-constraine...