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Journal articles on the topic "Healthcare logistics"

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Landry, Sylvain, and Richard Philippe. "How Logistics Can Service Healthcare." Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal 5, no. 2 (January 2004): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2004.11517130.

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Gadiiak, L., and V. Pysarenko. "LOGISTICS APPROACH IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT." Investytsiyi: praktyka ta dosvid, no. 7 (April 15, 2021): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.32702/2306-6814.2021.7.113.

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Pohjosenperä, Timo, Päivi Kekkonen, Saara Pekkarinen, and Jari Juga. "Service modularity in managing healthcare logistics." International Journal of Logistics Management 30, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 174–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-12-2017-0338.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how modularity is used for enabling value creation in managing healthcare logistics services.Design/methodology/approachMaterial logistics of four different kinds of hospitals is examined through a qualitative case study. The theoretical framework builds on the literature on healthcare logistics, service modularity and value creation.FindingsThe case hospitals have developed their material logistics independently from others when looking at the modularity of offerings, processes and organisations. Services, such as assortment management, shelving and developing an information platform, have been performed in-house partly by the care personnel, but steps towards modularised and standardised solutions are now being taken in the case hospitals, including ideas about outsourcing some of the services.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper proposes seven modularity components for healthcare logistics management: segmentation, categorisation and unitisation of offerings, differentiation and decoupling of processes, and centralisation and specialisation of organisations. Thus, this study clarifies the three-dimensional concept of modularity as a cognitive frame for managing logistics services with heterogeneous customer needs in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.Practical implicationsModularity offers a tool for developing logistics services inside the hospital and increases possibilities to consider also external logistics service providers.Social implicationsManaging healthcare logistics services through modularity has potential social implications in developing healthcare processes and changing the usage of health services. On a wider scale, modularity is helping healthcare systems reaching their goals in terms of service quality and cost.Originality/valueThis paper shows the context-specific antecedents of service modularity and the usage of modular thinking in managing healthcare logistics.

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Marczak, Halina. "LOGISTICS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS." Journal of Ecological Engineering 17, no. 3 (2016): 113–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.12911/22998993/63319.

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Geesteranus, Peter Maas, and Cezary Mańkowski. "HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS: AN INTEGRAL, PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH." Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. Ekonomika Transportu i Logistyka 71 (November 10, 2017): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.5722.

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The healthcare industry is in full swing. Pressure on the industry increases as a result of social, economic and financial developments. An aging population, increase in care demand, high costs and higher demands on customer value are significant aspects in this. One of the ways of dealing with this, in the Netherlands as well as in Poland, is to organize healthcare processes more efficiently in combination with a more empathetic focus on the customer. Healthcare Logistics stands for an integral approach of the design of healthcare processes, in order to make a contribution to the optimizing of customer value, cost control and savings in the healthcare. Lean and process management focus mainly on designing healthcare processes as efficient as possible where appointments with the customer of those processes are the principle. The logistic contribution counts mainly for tuning the required and available capacity. For the development and putting into practice of integral and customer oriented process management there are several models and tools available, which are deployed in conjunction with each other. Hence the article is focused on integral process oriented approach of healthcare logistics.

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Thompson, Craig W., and Fran Hagstrom. "Modeling Healthcare Logistics in a Virtual World." IEEE Internet Computing 12, no. 5 (September 2008): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mic.2008.106.

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Velasco, Nubia, Juan-Pablo Moreno, and Claudia Rebolledo. "Logistics practices in healthcare organizations in Bogota." Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 31, no. 3 (August 6, 2018): 519–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arla-08-2016-0219.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state of logistics practices in healthcare organizations in Bogota, Colombia. Design/methodology/approach The assessment is based on case study research using open interviews, focused interviews, a questionnaire and direct observations as sources of evidence. Seven Colombian health care settings are analyzed: four public hospitals and three private clinics. Cross-case analysis allows the identification of patterns regarding supply management, inventory management, replenishment and use of information and communication technologies. Findings Manual procedures, poor planning, little recognition from top management and a lack of specialized personnel characterize the current situation. Innovative practices with a potential to improve the efficacy of logistics activities are rare, particularly in public hospitals. Research avenues Future research could replicate this study in other Colombian cities, in order to generalize the results to the whole country. It could also be interesting to document successful and less successful implementations of innovative logistics practices in Colombian hospitals to guide and promote their adoption. Research limitations/implications The small number of cases considered, and the fact that the research is concentrated in one city, limits the generalizability of the results. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to explore the state of healthcare logistics practices in Colombia.

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Feibert, Diana Cordes, and Peter Jacobsen. "Factors impacting technology adoption in hospital bed logistics." International Journal of Logistics Management 30, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 195–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-02-2017-0043.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to refine and expand technology adoption theory for a healthcare logistics setting by combining the technology–organization–environment framework with a business process management (BPM) perspective. The paper identifies and ranks factors impacting the decision to implement instances of technologies in healthcare logistics processes. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study is carried out at five Danish hospitals to investigate the bed logistics process. A combined technology adoption and BPM lens is applied to gain an understanding of the reasoning behind technology adoption. Findings A set of 17 factors impacting the adoption of technologies within healthcare logistics was identified. The impact factors perceived as most important to the adoption of technologies in healthcare logistics processes relate to quality, employee work conditions and employee engagement. Research limitations/implications This paper seeks to understand how managers can use knowledge about impact factors to improve processes through technology adoption. The findings of this study provide insights about the factors impacting the adoption of technologies in healthcare logistics processes. Differences in perceived importance of factors enable ranking of impact factors, and prioritization of changes to be implemented. The study is limited to five hospitals, but is expected to be representative of public hospitals in developed countries and applicable to similar processes. Originality/value The study contributes to the empirical research within the field of BPM and technology adoption in healthcare. Furthermore, the findings of this study enable managers to make an informed decision about technology adoption within a healthcare logistics setting.

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Al-Qatawneh, Lina, Abdallah A. A. Abdallah, and Salam S. Z. Zalloum. "Six Sigma Application in Healthcare Logistics: A Framework and A Case Study." Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2019 (February 14, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9691568.

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Six Sigma is used heavily in various industrial sectors, yet no noticeable applications are seen in healthcare logistics. This paper reveals the special case of healthcare logistics where cost reduction is not the only factor considered in project selection; performance and criticality of each item in the logistics system are of high importance as well. This paper provides a proposed framework to apply Six Sigma in the area of healthcare logistics. It also presents a case study implementing the proposed framework at a Jordanian hospital. In the case study, the paper reveals how the modifications of the define phase to take into consideration the criticality, cost, and performance of items make typical Six Sigma methodology very beneficial for healthcare logistics. In addition, it shows how the Six Sigma project selection can be done to deal effectively with healthcare logistics issues. This paper paves the road for research to elaborate on ways to use Six Sigma in the area of improving healthcare logistics.

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Pashkin, M., N. Chilov, T. Levashova, A. Krizhanovsky, and A. Smirnov. "Knowledge Logistics as an Intelligent Service for Healthcare." Methods of Information in Medicine 44, no. 02 (2005): 262–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1633959.

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Summary Objectives: The technology of grid services is developing fast. This paper presents an approach to the implementation of an intelligent grid service that configures a hospital taking advantage of the knowledge logistics idea. Methods: The presented approach is based on synergistic integration of knowledge acquired from distributed sources in order to obtain new or complement insufficient knowledge. Presented approach uses ontologies and the formalism of object-oriented constraint networks for knowledge representation and applies ILOG to constraint-based problem solving. Results: The application of the approach is illustrated via a decision support system for a fictitious case study of a hospital configuration in the Binni region. The system showed the ability to produce interrelated solutions for subtasks of the hospital configuration task based on the built ontology and input parameters. Besides, such preferences as cost or time minimization are also considered by the implemented fuzzy logic module that finds a feasible solution. Conclusions: KL would benefit from the grid, and particularly from the concept of a semantic grid. The scalable architecture of the approach enables its extension with regard to knowledge/information sources number and, thereby, with regard to factors taken into account during complex problem solving. Utilizing ontologies allows integration of the approach into existing processes and facilitates knowledge sharing with similar systems. Application of constraint networks allows rapid problem manipulation and usage of such existing efficient technologies as ILOG.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Healthcare logistics"

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Houdenhoven, Mark van. "Healthcare logistics: The art of balance." [S.l.] : Rotterdam : [The Author] ; Erasmus University [Host], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/10862.

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Wiger, Malin. "Logistics Management in a Healthcare Context : Methodological development for describing and evaluating a healthcare organisation as a logistics system." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logistik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-92821.

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This thesis tests whether logistics knowledge, theories and principles can be used to provide potential patient flow efficiency improvements. By emphasizing an ideal logistics system by means of its main features and then using these to evaluate two different healthcare organisations, it is assumed that knowledge regarding patient flows can be obtained and potentials for improvement highlighted. Hence, this licentiate thesis presents a developed method intended for evaluating a healthcare organisation by means of a logistics system’s main features. The purpose rests on the assumption that effective management and real flow-efficient improvements can only be accomplished by viewing logistics as an integrated system. Demographics, increased costs, strong technical and medical developments, new kinds of customer requirements, stressed staff and preventable adverse events are some of the challenges the Swedish healthcare system is currently facing. In addition, there is a constant demand on healthcare to be more cost-effective while fulfilling demands as regards waiting times, quality and availability. Experience from structural changes in other industries gives reason to be positive about the potential for long-term productivity leaps in the healthcare sector. The challenge is to simultaneously find successful application of efficient production and flexible adaptation to changing patients’ demands and requirements. Taking advantage of the logistics expertise that already exists can be a way to meet these challenges. It can be assumed that logistics knowledge applied in healthcare can lead to lower costs, shorter waiting lists, better patient service, shorter treatment times and increased capacity. Nevertheless, flow-oriented design of healthcare delivery systems is novel and positions much currently isolated research on a conceptual level or within single wards (Wiger and Aronsson, 2012). The research is part of a three-year project, "Lean and agile – logistics driven improvement in health and social care”, funded by Vinnvård, a collaboration between the Department of Management and Engineering at Linköping University, Hässleholm Healthcare Organisation and the Medical Management Center at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. This thesis is partly a theoretical development of logistics models. This is done in order to create an ideal logistics system’s main features and description aspects to describe a system to be able to evaluate it using these features. The two cases are used to test the adequacy of the developed method and its associated models and to identify potential for improvement towards a more flow-oriented business. Four series of interview sessions were conducted with a total of 23 respondents and 18 interviews and over 500 Excel files were collected from the business system. It is suggested that a healthcare organisation can be evaluated by the developed logistics main features. These features, listed below, together provide a possibility to complement a healthcare organisation’s ability to meet patient requirements by flow-efficiency and demonstrate logistical operational excellence. A logistics system’s purpose is to meet customer requirements by cost-effective delivery service through flow orientation by prioritising the total performance A logistics system has a flow-oriented structure A logistics system transforms orders into customer services in a flow-oriented process A logistics system can control the transformation of input (demand) to output (customer service) and thus the cost of resources A logistics system measures to capture the whole system’s logistics performance, including total logistics costs, lead times and customer service A logistics system has a strategy to meet demand A logistics system uses logistics measurements as feedback to regulate its behaviour to reduce differences between actual and desired performance The analysis of the two cases confirms the picture of an organisational design driven by medical specialties. This implies a possibility to change perspective to a more holistic view with the patient flow in focus. The fact that there are very few possibilities to control the transformation has partly to do with ownership of patient flows being less well-defined than clearly defined medical responsibilities within each specialty. It also has to do with the inability to distinguish between the uncertainty regarding unique patients on a low level of aggregation and at the higher level where there should be complete and explicit specifications of the end-product requirements and delivery requirements. The lack of demand strategies that support the total logistics performance ultimately leads to both clinics having to use a sacrificing work effort rather than working systematically to be able to meet the demand. At the case hospital, there is a lack of information aggregated from operational level about patient processes that is made available for strategic decision-making. Neither of the two cases measure on the basis of improving patient flow efficiency, especially not the total patient flow costs or the total logistics costs. The major contribution is the analysis based on the logistics system’s main features, which gives a more purposive understanding of what can be done to improve flow efficiency within a healthcare organisation to make healthcare organisations progress in their ability to be more flow-oriented. A further contribution is a more clearly defined field of healthcare logistics research and the stressed importance of the “new” research field of logistics management.

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Wang, Luyao, and Yuqiao Hu. "Third party healthcare logistics : A study of third-party logistics providers in China." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74856.

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With the strong support from the government and investors, Chinese healthcare sector is developed rapidly. Also, the demand for healthcare logistics has also gradually increased. Currently, most Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing are using traditional healthcare logistics, and due to the late start of Chinese healthcare logistics, there are many problems within the field. Therefore,there is a strong demand for professional 3PL providers involving Chinese healthcare sectors. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the status of Chinese healthcare sectors, to indicate the predictable contribution of Chinese 3PL providers after entering. And also, to analyze how different types of Chinese 3PL providers can better adapt themselves to healthcare logistics sectors. Additionally, different opportunities and challenges faced by the Chinese 3PL providers in the field of healthcare logistics has been analyzed.

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Al-Qatawneh, Lina Khalil. "A study of inventory classification in healthcare logistics using system dynamics modelling." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2006. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19256/.

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One of the key challenges for a modern day health care provider is to dispense high quality of medical care while limiting or even reducing the health care expenditures. This research work endeavours to meet this challenge through effective management of hospitals logistics systems. The aim of this research work is to provide a structured mechanism for modelling and analysing health care logistics to be able to understand its dynamic behaviour and effectively manage its logistical activities on the basis of the model. In order to achieve the research objectives, this research uses system dynamics as the main medium of analysis, and in particular, employs an integrated system dynamics framework which has been used previously for manufacturing industry supply chain designs and tests the feasibility of the framework for analysing and modelling health care logistics. This is ascertained by developing and incorporating a decision making metrics in the system dynamics model based on item criticality, usage, and value to optimise overall logistics costs. System Dynamics methodology is employed at first to develop a model for existing inventory control decisions, and subsequently to produce two alternative approaches based on traditional (R, s, S) inventory control approach and Continuous Replenishment Inventory and Order Based Production Control CR(IOBPCS) approach. These approaches are tested for two case hospitals, namely: Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) USA, and Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (DRI) UK. The dynamic analysis for each case revealed problems in terms of multistage inventories and order batching, which could lead to demand amplification causing a detrimental effect on the inventory management throughout the supply chain. Accordingly, the simulations results produced for the two cases are benchmarked using alternative strategies in terms of lower inventory cost, and robustness to meet the unpredictable demand arising from a large number of items. Overall, this research work has enhanced the understanding of hospitals logistics systems by building qualitative and quantitative models. More specifically, this research work has illustrated the applicability of the integrated system dynamics framework in analysing and modelling hospitals logistics systems and inventory control decisions. One particular contribution of this study is introducing inventory classification based on the criticality of items for patient needs which is more suited for health care situations rather purely cost based policies prevalent in other manufacturing and service chains. Therefore, this work has rigorously tested a multi-criteria based inventory classification method that takes into account the criticality of use, cost, and usage value of items for optimising overall inventory cost while maintaining the required patient care/service level. Future studies may be conducted to further evaluate the trade-offs in between different logistics decision making (such as, inventory control, service level, purchasing, transportation and warehousing) in order to design a set of "best practice" simulation models to optimise the overall dynamic behaviour for health care supply chains.

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Fossum, Benjamin, and Johan Hedborg. "Resource management analysis at the prehospital emergency care unit in north-western Skåne." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130004.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the preparedness at the prehospital emergency care unit in north-western Skåne. Measuring preparedness is important to ensure that the ability to respond on emergency calls is satisfactory. To do this for north-western Skåne historical data from 2015 was extracted from SOS Alarms database. It was used to calculate preparedness using workload and coverage as measurements. The workload was calculated by taking the busy periods and comparing them to the ambulances working times. The coverage was calculated by defining neighbouring stations to cover for each station and then finding the amount of hours when there was no ambulance at either station. These calculations show that two of the six stations in north-western Skåne are in need of improvement. To increase the preparedness to a good level resources will have to be added at the liable stations. These resources would be new ambulances. There is a possibility to relocate ambulances from stations within the district but that would lead to a worsened preparedness for the stations which these ambulances belonged to in the first place.

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Hautamäki, M. (Minna). "Co-creating value-in-use for public healthcare customer through modularity of logistics services." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201505211571.

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The healthcare industry today is in the search for efficient solutions. However, currently services, such as logistics, supporting the hospital core processes are produced in-house. Recent findings have shown internally produced services may not always be as efficient as their external alternatives. This has led to hospitals outsourcing their non-core activities which allows the external service providers to expand their markets to the healthcare industry. In this thesis, a logistics service provider’s business opportunities will be explored in the context of public healthcare. Furthermore, this study considers modular service architecture as a facilitator for creating value. The research emphasises the role of operational-level customer i.e. nursing staff’s conception of value created by logistics as well as its value creation processes in a university hospital. By gaining an understanding of how logistics creates value-in-use to the hospital customer, business opportunities can be discovered. The purpose of this thesis is to find new business opportunities for a logistics service provider organisation aiming to increase its market share in the public healthcare sector. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher investigates current logistics issues in the university hospital’s surgical ward emphasising value creation processes in the ward and the operational-level customer point-of-view. In addition to addressing a practical need, this study contributes to existing research in co-creation of value and modularity in the context of logistics and healthcare. This is a qualitative study where the research phenomenon is approached utilising three divergent research methods that are semi-structured interviews, observations and a group discussion. Although this research emphasises the role of the medical staff consisting of nurses, interviews are carried on both strategic- and operational-levels in the healthcare customer and logistics service provider organisations. The group discussion is regarded to be a data collecting method enabling representatives from the logistics service provider and healthcare customer organisations to co-create value. The results of this study support existing research on modularity and its suitability in markets with heterogeneous needs, such as the healthcare industry where hospitals often contain a number of internal customers that may differ from each other in terms of their needs. Furthermore, current research on modularity emphasises monetary benefits, such as efficiency and cost reductions, created for the customer. However, this research suggests modular services may additionally create non-monetary value-in-use to the customer by improving well-being and trust among the medical staff. In other words, modular services are not solely a facilitator for efficiency. The results of this study may be applied by practitioners looking for new business opportunities through co-creation together with the customer. Furthermore, the results suggest organisations wanting to gain more market share in the healthcare industry ought to consider modular service design to be able to respond to heterogeneous customer needs. Due to the qualitative nature of this study as well as the narrow amount of empirical data, the results of this study cannot be generalised
Terveydenhuoltoalalla hankittavien ratkaisujen tehokkuus on keskeinen tekijä. Siitä huolimatta nykyiset sairaalan ydinprosesseja tukevat palvelut, kuten logistiikka, tuotetaan pääosin sisäisesti. Viimeisimmät tutkimukset osoittavat, että sisäisesti tuotetut palvelut eivät useinkaan ole ulkoiselta tarjoajalta hankittuja palveluja tehokkaampia. Tämä on johtanut ei-keskeisten palvelujen ulkoistamiseen ja mahdollistanut ulkopuolisten palveluntarjoajien levittäytymisen terveydenhuoltomarkkinoille. Tässä tutkielmassa erään logistisen palveluntuottajan liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia tarkastellaan julkisen terveydenhuollon kontekstissa. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa painotetaan modulaarisen palveluarkkitehtuurin roolia arvonluonnin mahdollistajana. Tutkielmassa korostetaan operationaalisen tason asiakkaan, eli hoitohenkilökunnan ymmärrystä logistiikan luomasta arvosta sen omissa arvonluontiprosesseissa. Arvonluontiprosessien tutkiminen mahdollistaa uusien liiketoimintamahdollisuuksien kartoittamisen. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on löytää uusia liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia logistiselle palveluntarjoajalle, jonka tavoitteena on lisätä markkinaosuuttaan julkisen terveydenhuollon sektorilla. Tutkimustavoitteen saavuttamiseksi tutkija selvittää, millaisia logistisia haasteita tutkimuskohteena olevalla yliopistosairaalan keskusleikkausosastolla on tällä hetkellä ja miten ne vaikuttavat operationaalisen tason toimijoiden arvonluontiprosesseihin. Tutkimus pyrkii käytännön ongelman ratkaisemisen lisäksi tuomaan uutta tietoa arvon yhteisluonnin ja modulaarisuuden tieteellisiin keskusteluihin logistiikan ja terveydenhuollon kontekstissa. Tämä tutkimus on luonteeltaan kvalitatiivinen. Tutkimuskohdetta lähestytään kolmella eri tavalla puolistrukturoitujen haastattelujen, havainnointien ja ryhmäkeskustelun avulla. Vaikka tutkimuksessa painotetaan hoitohenkilökunnan näkemyksiä, haastatteluja tehtiin sekä strategisella että operationaalisella tasolla sekä palveluntarjoaja- että asiakasorganisaatioissa. Ryhmäkeskustelun avulla simuloitiin asiakkaan ja palveluntarjoajan välistä arvon yhteisluontiprosessia. Tutkimuksen tulokset tukevat olemassa olevaa modulaarisuuskirjallisuutta vahvistaen näkemystä, jonka mukaan modulaarinen palvelusuunnittelu toimii erityisen hyvin ympäristöissä, joissa ilmenee heterogeenisiä tarpeita. Esimerkiksi terveydenhuollon alalla sairaaloissa sisäisten asiakkaiden tarpeet voivat erota toisistaan. Lisäksi nykyisessä modulaarisuutta käsittelevässä kirjallisuudessa painotetaan modulaarisuuden rahallisia hyötyjä, kuten tehokkuutta ja kustannussäästöjä. Tämä tutkimus kuitenkin osoittaa, että modulaariset palvelut luovat asiakkaille myös ei-rahallisia hyötyjä parantamalla hoitohenkilökunnan työhyvinvointia ja luottamusta. Käytännön harjoittajat voivat soveltaa tämän tutkimuksen tuloksia etsiessään uusia liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia yhdessä nykyisten tai potentiaalisten asiakkaitten kanssa. Lisäksi tulokset osoittavat, että yritykset, jotka haluavat lisätä näkyvyyttään terveydenhuollon alalla, jolla asiakkaitten tarpeet ovat usein heterogeenisiä, voivat pitää modulaarisuutta yhtenä palvelusuunnitteluvaihtoehtona. Tutkimuksen kvalitatiivisen luonteen ja aineiston suppeuden vuoksi sen tulokset eivät ole yleistettävissä

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Callender, Carlos. "Barriers and best practices for material management in the healthcare sector." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : University of Missouri-Rolla, 2007. http://scholarsmine.umr.edu/thesis/pdf/Callender_09007dcc803c6cf5.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007.
Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed December 3, 2007) Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-31).

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Bennett, Ashlea R. "Home health care logistics planning." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33989.

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This thesis develops quantitative methods which incorporate transportation modeling for tactical and operational home health logistics planning problems. We define home health nurse routing and scheduling (HHNRS) problems, which are dynamic periodic routing and scheduling problems with fixed appointment times, where a set of patients must be visited by a home health nurse according to a prescribed weekly frequency for a prescribed number of consecutive weeks during a planning horizon, and each patient visit must be assigned an appointment time belonging to an allowable menu of equally-spaced times. Patient requests are revealed incrementally, and appointment time selections must be made without knowledge of future requests. First, a static problem variant is studied to understand the impact of fixed appointment times on routing and scheduling decisions, independent of other complicating factors in the HHNRS problem. The costs of offering fixed appointment times are quantified, and purely distance-based heuristics are shown to have potential limitations for appointment time problems unless proposed arc cost transformations are used. Building on this result, a new rolling horizon capacity-based heuristic is developed for HHNRS problems. The heuristic considers interactions between travel times, service times, and the fixed appointment time menu when inserting appointments for currently revealed patient requests into partial nurse schedules. The heuristic is shown to outperform a distance-based heuristic on metrics which emphasize meeting as much patient demand as possible. The home health nurse districting (HHND) problem is a tactical planning problem which influences HHNRS problem solution quality. A set of geographic zones must be partitioned into districts to be served by home health nurses, such that workload is balanced across districts and nurse travel is minimized. A set partitioning model for HHND is formulated and a column generation heuristic is developed which integrates ideas from optimization and local search. Methods for estimating district travel and workload are developed and implemented within the heuristic, which outperforms local search on test instances.

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Nilsson, Hanna, and Julia Johansson. "Samordning för barn och ungdomar med frekvent behov av sjukvård." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Industriell organisation och produktion, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24059.

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Purpose- The purpose of this project is to contribute to the knowledge of creating customer value through streamlining and coordination of patient flows for children and youth with frequent need of care on child and youth medical clinics. Method- One of the methods used for achieving the project's purpose is a case study on the Child and Youth Medicine Clinic at Länssjukhuset Ryhov in Jönköping. The case study has been used for collecting the empirical data that has been generated through interviews, observations and documents from the Child and Youth Health Clinic. Except the case study the authors also made studies in literature, which the collected empirical data has been anchored and related to. Together this led to the project's analysis and results. Results- When investigating the questions found in chapter one, it was determined standardized work is of great importance to create structure and implement procedures for the patient flows. A weak link in the patient flow has been identified, which is the sub-process coordination and planning. This constraint includes three types of requirements: patient requirements, requires of health professionals and legislated requirements. By paying attention to and taking into account these requirements a coordination function can be designed to streamline patient flows and increase the customer value. The authors concluded that a specific employment as a coordinator should be appointed. A coordinator provides opportunities for a personal communication between patients and health professionals. At the same time the coordinator is able to work with techniques for efficiency while taking into account the soft values in health care. Conclusions- There is a demand for coordination from health professionals and patients. A coordination function would streamline operations and contribute to increase the customer value. Taking into account the identified wastes and limitations a coordination can be possible. Research limitations- The project's data is collected during the case study that was conducted at the Child and Youth Health Clinic. Further case studies are desirable in other clinics and in other hospitals country wide. These studies will allow for a higher security when generalizing the results of the project.
Syfte- Syftet med projektet är att bidra till kunskapen om att skapa kundvärde genom effektivisering och samordning av patientflöden för barn med frekvent behov av vård på barn- och ungdomsmedicinska kliniker. Metod- För att uppnå projektets syfte har bland annat en fallstudie på Barn- och ungdomsmedicinska kliniken på Länssjukhuset Ryhov i Jönköping genomförts. Fallstudien har använts för insamling av empiri, genom intervjuer, observationer samt dokument från Barn- och ungdomsmedicinska kliniken. Utöver denna fallstudie har även en litteraturstudie bedrivits, som den insamlade empirin har förankrats och relaterats till. Detta har gemensamt lett till projektets analys och resultat. Resultat- Det har framkommit att ett standardiserat arbetssätt är en förutsättning för att skapa struktur och införa rutiner gällande samordning för patientflöden. En svag länk i patientflödet har identifierats vilken är delprocessen samordning och planering. Denna länk innefattar tre typer av begränsningar, patientrelaterade begränsningar, begränsningar kopplade till vårdpersonal samt lagstiftade begränsningar. Genom att uppmärksamma och ta hänsyn till dessa begränsningar kan en samordningsfunktion utformas för att effektivisera patientflödet och höja kundvärdet. En specifik befattning som samordnare bör tillsättas, vilket ger möjlighet till personlig kontakt mellan patienter och vårdpersonal och kan även arbeta med tekniker för effektivisering samtidigt som hänsyn tas till mjuka värden. Slutsatser- Det finns en efterfrågan om samordning för såväl vårdpersonal som patienter. En samordningsfunktion skulle effektivisera verksamheten och bidra till ett ökat kundvärde. Genom att ta hänsyn till identifierade slöserier i patientflödet och begränsningar i vårdprocessen kan samordning möjliggöras. Begränsningar- Projektets empiri är insamlad under den fallstudie som bedrevs på Länssjukhuset Ryhov. Författarna hade önskat utöka sina perspektiv genom att involvera fler intervjupersoner för att ge projektet högre reliabilitet och validitet. Eftersom majoriteten av all personal med planeringsansvar på Barn- och ungdomsmedicinska kliniken intervjuats hade författarna behövt intervjua personal utanför det avgränsade området. Det hade även varit önskvärt att göra ytterligare fallstudier på andra kliniker och möjligtvis även på andra sjukhus i landet för att med högre säkerhet kunna generalisera projektets resultat. På grund av sekretesslagar och geografiska avstånd var detta inte möjligt.

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Hallén, Wilma, and Linnéa Henriksson. "Analys av framtida materialflöde för Ögonkliniken US." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168097.

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Inom sjukvården är det viktigt att material finns tillgängligt när operationer och ingrepp ska genomföras för att patienter ska få den vård de behöver. För att materialbrist inte ska uppstå krävs bra planering och hantering av material. Det finns ett flertal olika materialstyrningsmetoder som syftar till att undvika materialbrist och uppnå låga kostnader. I dagsläget ligger Ögonkliniken på sjukhusområdet på Universitetssjukhuset i Linköping men då lokalerna är gamla ska kliniken flytta till nya lokaler på Garnisonen, ett område utanför sjukhusområdet. I och med flytten kommer ett nytt materialflöde att uppstå för Ögonklinikens steriliserade material. Detta då Ögonkliniken§ innan flytten steriliserade allt sitt material själva på avdelningen och efter flytten kommer materialet istället att skickas till Sterilcentralen som ligger på sjukhusområdet för sterilisering. Syftet med studien är därför att skapa en bättre förståelse för det framtida materialflödet mellan Ögonkliniken och Sterilcentralen genom att analysera lämpligheten i olika materialstyrningsmetoder för Ögonklinikens verksamhet. Målet med studien är att kartlägga det framtida materialflödet samt att beräkna mängden material som behöver finnas i flödet för att materialbrist inte ska uppstå för Ögonkliniken. För att besvara syftet utgår studien från fyra frågeställningar: 1. Vilka processer och aktiviteter kommer det framtida flödet att bestå av? 2. Vilka karaktäristiska drag har Ögonklinikens sterila material? 3. Givet de karaktäristiska drag som identifierats i fråga 2, vilken materialstyrningsmetod är mest lämplig? 4. Vilka andra effekter medför valet av materialstyrningsmetod för det framtida flödet? För att kunna besvara frågeställningarna har information och data samlats in genom litteraturstudie, sekundärdata och intervjuer. Sekundärdata som samlats in är efterfrågedata, antal diskprocesser, antal autoklavkörningar och antal omkörda processer och körningar. Det framtida flödet kommer bestå av fyra parter; Ögonkliniken, Sterilcentralen, Stångåbuss och Inre Logistik. Intervjuer har genomförts med samtliga parter, där de har svarat på semistrukturerade intervjufrågor. Studien resulterar i en kartläggning över det framtida flödet, där processer och aktiviteter som flödet kommer bestå av illustreras. Det sterila materialet identifieras ha kort ledtid, ojämn efterfrågan och antingen fast eller varierande beställningsintervall samt beställningskvantitet. Kanban anses vara den mest lämpliga materialstyrningsmetoden att använda för Ögonkliniken. Detta för att kanban lämpar sig bäst för det sterila materialets karaktäristiska drag. De effekter som ett kanbansystem medför är att beställningspunkt och beställningskvantitet bestäms samt att kostnaderna och kapitalbindning kan hållas låga. Dock är inte de transporter som finns idag anpassade för ett kanbansystem, vilket leder till att detta kan behöva åtgärdas för att få ett fungerande kanbansystem. För att ett kanbansystem ska fungera behöver materialet transporteras direkt när behovet uppstår och i dagsläget fungerar inte de avtalade transporter på detta sätt. Då de avtalade transporterna går specifika tider istället.
It is crucial that sterile material is available when surgeries and other medical proceduresneed to be performed so that the patients receive the required healthcare. To ensure thatshortfalls of required material do not occur good planning and efficient material managementis required. There are several different material planning methods that can be used to avoidshortfall of material.As of today, Ögonkliniken is located within the hospital area at the university hospital inLinköping. However, Ögonkliniken is being relocated to new facilities located at Garnisonen,which is an area outside of the hospital area. The relocation is due to that the current facilitiesare old and worn down. Ögonkliniken handled their own sterile material and the sterilizationprocess in their current facilities. When the relocation is complete the used sterile materialwill be transported to Sterilcentralen, which is located within the hospital area, forsterilization. After sterilization, the material must be transported back to Ögonkliniken.Hence, a new material flow will emerge because of the relocation. The purpose of this studyis to gain a better understanding of the new material flow. This is achieved by analyzingdifferent material planning methods and whether they are suited for Ögonkliniken. The aimof the study is to map the future material flow and to calculate the amount of material thatneeds to be present in the flow to avoid material shortages at Ögonkliniken. To fulfill thepurpose of the study four research questions have been formulated:1. What activities will the material flow consist of?2. What specific features does Ögonklinikens sterilized material have?3. Given the specific features that have been identified in question 2, which materialplanning method is best suited?4. What other impacts does the chosen material planning method result in for the futurematerial flow?To answer the questions, information and data have been collected through literature study,secondary data and interviews. The secondary data that have been collected are statistics overnumber of preformed operations, number of washing processes, number of sterilizationprocesses and number of processes that needed to be reprocessed. The future material flowwill consist of four departments: Ögonklinken, Sterilcentralen, Stångåbuss and Inre Logistik.All departments have been interviewed where they have been asked semi structuredquestions.The sterile material has been identified with the following specific features, short lead time,irregular demand and either fixed or varying order interval and order quantity. The best suitedmaterial planning method for Ögonkliniken is the Kanban system. This is due to that thesterile material’s specific features match with the method. An implementation of a Kanbansystem will result in routines for when and what volume should be ordered. The system alsoallows for the cost of purchased material to be low. However, the way the transports are setup today does not suit a Kanban system. Therefore, the transports may have to be adapted sothat the Kanban system will function well. For the Kanban system to work transportation ofmaterial must occur when the demand appears and today the transports only allow material tobe picked up at specific times.

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Zonderland, Maartje E., Richard J. Boucherie, Erwin W. Hans, and Nikky Kortbeek, eds. Handbook of Healthcare Logistics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3.

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Optimize Your Healthcare Supply Chain Performance: A Strategic Approach. Health Administration Press, 2007.

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Breakthrough: From Innovation to Impact. Lunteren, Netherlands: The Owls Foundation, 2016.

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Knape, Hans. The roles and responsibilities of the anaesthesiologist. Edited by Philip M. Hopkins. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0032.

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Anaesthesia, being a relatively young medical specialty, has undergone a process of metamorphosis in the last 60 years. Modern principles of pathophysiology, technical developments, and new pharmacological principles have enhanced the potential of anaesthesia in the operating room, causing several subspecialties to develop. These subspecialties have enabled anaesthesiologists to better serve groups of patients with particular challenges and specific demands. The competences of anaesthesiologists in the pathophysiology of pain, pharmacology, and regional anaesthesia techniques enabled them to take the lead in the development of pain clinics, especially serving the increasing population of patients with chronic pain syndromes, often in close collaboration with experts from other disciplines. A similar development occurred in critical care medicine based on the expertise of anaesthesiologists in ventilatory and circulatory management and also in emergency medicine. With their overview of anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine, anaesthesiologists are now in a position to lead in the whole perioperative process, not only in the medical management of individual patients but also in the logistic and organizational aspects of care. With further developments in information technology, in telemedicine, and rapid changes in society, with the increased demand of care in times of limited financial resources, a strong appeal will be made to anaesthesiologists to show leadership and cross boundaries. An increased focus on teamwork with surgeons, non-medical professionals, but also with managers and insurance companies in healthcare may open new horizons for the specialty of anaesthesiology and perioperative medicine.

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Muogboh, Obinna S., and Jimoh G. Fatoki. "Managing Healthcare Logistics." In Health Service Marketing Management in Africa, 211–26. New York : Routledge, 2020.: Productivity Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429400858-17.

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Devine, Timothy J. "Mobile Simulation Logistics." In Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation, 77–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33660-8_6.

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Rossetti, Manuel D., Nebil Buyurgan, and Edward Pohl. "Medical Supply Logistics." In Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling, 245–80. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1734-7_10.

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Vanberkel, Peter T., Richard J. Boucherie, Erwin W. Hans, Johann L. Hurink, Wineke A. M. van Lent, and Wim H. van Harten. "Implementing Algorithms to Reduce Ward Occupancy Fluctuation Through Advanced Planning." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 129–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_8.

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van der Voort, Marc B. V. Rouppe, Arvid J. Glerum, and Erwin W. Hans. "Minimizing Variation in Hospital Bed Utilization by Creating a Case Type Schedule for the Operating Room Planning." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 231–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_12.

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Schneider, A. J. (Thomas), and N. M. (Maartje) van de Vrugt. "Applications of Hospital Bed Optimization." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 57–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_5.

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Borgman, Nardo J., Ingrid M. H. Vliegen, and Erwin W. Hans. "Emergency Operating Room or Not?" In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 111–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_7.

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Vromans, R. F. M., N. Kortbeek, L. Schoonhoven, B. van den Bosch, and M. Van Houdenhoven. "Workload Forecasting and Demand-Driven Staffing: A Case Study for Post-operative Physiotherapy." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 183–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_10.

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Mes, Martijn R. K., Ingrid M. H. Vliegen, and Carine J. M. Doggen. "A Quantitative Analysis of Integrated Emergency Posts." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 201–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_11.

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Zonderland, Maartje E., A. Gréanne Leeftink, Aleida Braaksma, Richard J. Boucherie, Erwin W. Hans, and Nikky Kortbeek. "Making an Impact on Healthcare Logistics." In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics, 1–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_1.

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Kritchanchai, Duangpun. "A Roadmap Towards Healthcare Logistics in Thailand." In 2017 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Application (ICIMSA). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icimsa.2017.7985578.

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Sainfort, Francois. "Transforming Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities." In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/soli.2006.329102.

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Lai, Mei-Chiao, Dan Liu, and Wu-Der Tsay. "Functional Deployment of Drone Logistics." In 2020 IEEE 2nd Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecbios50299.2020.9203635.

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Shao-Jen Weng, Teresa Wu, Gerald Mackulak, and John Fowler. "Distributed resource allocation for healthcare systems." In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/soli.2008.4686559.

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Jablonski, Stefan, Rainer Lay, Christian Meiler, Sascha Müller, and Wolfgang Hümmer. "Data logistics as a means of integration in healthcare applications." In the 2005 ACM symposium. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1066677.1066735.

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Li, Hui, Qi-Long Ren, Xiao-Ming Zhao, and Qian-Yun Wang. "Research on the Regional Logistics Network Linkage Based on Logistics Enterprise—Take Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as an Example." In 2019 IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecbios.2019.8807852.

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Benomrane, Souad, Mounir Ben Ayed, and Adel M. Alimi. "An agent-based Knowledge Discovery from Databases applied in healthcare domain." In 2013 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icadlt.2013.6568455.

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Baati, Dorra, Mariam Mellouli, and Wafik Hachicha. "Designing a new infectious healthcare-waste management system in sfax governorate, tunisia." In 2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icadlt.2014.6866337.

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Nyberg, Timo, Gang Xiong, and Jani Luostarinen. "Connected health services: Internet, mobile and wireless technologies in healthcare." In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics (SOLI). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/soli.2011.5986559.

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REGRAGUI, Hajar, Naoufal Sefiani, and Hamid AZZOUZI. "Improving performance through measurement: the application of BSC and AHP in healthcare organization." In 2018 International Colloquium on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LOGISTIQUA). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/logistiqua.2018.8428262.

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