Strengthen and improve the healthcare supply chain by using simulation to ensure that supplies are available when they are needed.
Effectively managing a healthcare organization's supply and demand can significantly increase patient care while also reducing costs.
Healthcare requires supplies to function effectively and crucially they need to be available, at the right time and of the right quality to ensure the service is efficient and also to achieve the best patient outcomes. This often requires cross-department and cross-organisational working, and time as well as location are key factors.
Simulation allows you to:
Patient food service is one aspect of healthcare which is often scrutinized, becoming a central issue for hospital administrators in recent years.
Discover how simulation enabled Geisinger to strike the balance between patient satisfaction and staff efficiency.
Blood donors are in short supply, the shelf-life of blood products is relatively short and blood product ordering policies are potentially complex - making the National Blood Service's supply chain an ideal problem to be solved by simulation. A team used extensive real life data to create a simulation with SIMUL8.
Getting blood to the right patients at the right time is life-saving, and blood has a limited shelf life. Click the following link to read a report from the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Read The FDA PaperGeisinger Health System (GHS) are a large regional medical center, that have been on the forefront of innovative solutions to clinical and operational issues.
Prior research indicated that nurses on inpatient units spend upward of 15% of their time on logistics/supply chain tasks. A project was put in place to determine the actual nursing time spent doing logistics/supply chain tasks and to develop a new model for logistics inside the hospital.
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute - The number of chronic disease cases is growing at phenomenal rates as our general population ages. End-stage diseases of all the major organs: heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas ultimately rely on transplantation as the only means remaining to return a patient to reasonable health.
SIMUL8 Partner, Novasim, used SIMUL8 to help Johns Hopkins understand how all of the complex elements involved in transplant care fit together, enabling them to better use their limited resources to the advantage of their patients.
Caremark PCS (Formerly Advanced PCS) SIMUL8 Partner, Novasim, helped the pharmacy benefits group for Caremark improve customer service and reduce turnaround time on prescription orders.
The sheer volume and complexity of the orders made capacity planning and staffing very difficult. Simulation has helped reduce order turnaround time, improve staff utilization, and reduce costs.
Robert Celeste, former Senior Director at GS1 US, explores how simulation was used to demonstrate the supply chain process to gain consensus on a process that would be feasible in the supply chain and meet the needs of State and Federal regulators.
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