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| Mark W IskenSummaryAffiliation: Oakland University Country: USA Publications
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Simulation analysis of pneumatic tube systemsMark W Isken
School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
J Med Syst 26:9-19. 2002..Our general approach can be generalized to other computer controlled hospital operational systems such as elevators, track vehicles, automatic guided vehicles, workflow enabled processes, and laboratory automation systems...
Data mining to support simulation modeling of patient flow in hospitalsMark W Isken
Department of Decision and Information Sciences, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, USA
J Med Syst 26:179-97. 2002..Using data from a hospital in the Midwest this study brings forth several important issues that researchers need to address when applying clustering techniques in general and specifically to hospital data...
Collection and preparation of sensor network data to support modeling and analysis of outpatient clinicsMark W Isken
Department of Decision and Information Sciences, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 8:87-99. 2005..Several examples of the analysis of sensor network data are also presented. Our approach has been used in two large outpatient clinics in the United States...
Hillmaker: an open source occupancy analysis toolMark W Isken
School of Business Administration, Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Oakland University, MI 48309, USA
Clin Invest Med 28:342-3. 2005..We describe an occupancy analysis tool called Hillmaker which has been used in numerous healthcare operations studies. It is being released as a free and open source software project...
An open source software project for obstetrical procedure scheduling and occupancy analysisMark W Isken
School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 14:56-73. 2011..In the development of these models, we made heavy use of open source software tools and have released the entire project as a free and open source model and software toolkit...
Short term hospital occupancy predictionSteven J Littig
Improvement Path Systems, Inc, Farmington Hills, MI, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 10:47-66. 2007..The results and accuracy of this new model is compared to a variety of other predictive methods based on tests using 2 years of actual hospital data...
