[AISWorld] ** JEIM Special Issue: Healthcare Operations Management through use of Simulation (papers due 31st October) **

[Mustafee N.]

Special Issue Call for Papers: Journal of Enterprise Information
Management (JEIM)

Healthcare Operations Management through use of Simulation


Dear Colleagues

Please note that the deadline for submission to the special issue is
31st October 2011.

You can download the CFP from the link below:
https://sites.google.com/site/navonilmustafee/special-issue---call-for-p
apers/download-cfp



Timeline

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*         Deadline for submission of papers: 31st October 2011

*         Authors to receive a first decision by: 28th February 2012

*         Final notification of acceptance by: 30th June 2012

*         Final paper submission by: 31st July 2012

*         Publication of the special issue: To be decided in conjunction
with JEIM



About the journal:

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*         Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM),
previously published as Logistics Information Management

*         Publisher: Emerald

*         Current Volume: 24

*         Listed in Academic Journal Quality Guide from the Association
of Business Schools (ABS list) http://www.the-abs.org.uk/?id=257

*         Indexed in Scopus and Emerald Management Reviews (see website
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jeim





About the Special Issue

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Decision support systems and modelling tools are Information Systems
that support organisational decision making activities. Modelling tools
have been widely used by governments to get advice on making the best
possible use of public money. One such tool is simulation. There is a
growing body of research on the application of simulation in the context
of healthcare. With the recent financial crisis and its implications on
governmental spending for public resources, this trend is likely to
continue. On the one hand governments are faced with an increasingly
upward pressure on the healthcare budgets for reasons as far fletching
as ageing population, increase in life expectancy, rise in immigration,
rising costs of providing medical care, among others; and on the other
hand there is a necessity for decrease in governmental spending in
citizen-centric services and for austerity measures due to widening
budget deficits. Irrespective of this contradiction - "provide better
service at a lesser cost" - which may last for years to come, it is
imperative that the allocated healthcare budgets are utilised to provide
for better patient experience at reasonable costs through optimum use of
resources. Simulation is a decision support technique that can be used
by researchers, policy makers, healthcare managers and practitioners,
healthcare consultants and other stakeholders to realise this objective.



Simulation techniques such as Discrete-Event Simulation (DES), System
Dynamics (SD), Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and Agent-Based Simulation
(ABS) are used for planning of healthcare services, healthcare risk
assessment, economic evaluation of healthcare interventions, public
health policy evaluation, among others. This special issue is focussed
on Simulation as applied to the management of healthcare operations.



Coverage

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Paper are invited from topics associated with the following (please note
that the list is not exhaustive).

Review of simulation literature pertaining to healthcare operation
management

Methodology papers pertaining to the use of simulation in healthcare

Conceptual modelling in healthcare

Application of simulation techniques (DES, SD, ABS, MCS, etc.) for
healthcare operations management, for example,

*         Planning of healthcare services

*         Simulation of patient pathways

*         Simulation of emergency services (A&E, ambulance service)

*         Simulations that focus on hospital performance and
restructuring of services

*         Contagious disease simulation

*         Geographical simulation for coping with changes in
demographics

*         Use of simulation in healthcare policy making

*         Use of simulation for training healthcare stakeholders

*         Use of advance technologies in healthcare simulation, e.g.,
RFID, Distributed Simulation, Cloud Computing, innovative visualisation.



Guest Editors:

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Navonil Mustafee (Swansea University, Wales, UK)

Email: n.mustafee at swansea.ac.uk



Korina Katsaliaki (International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki,
Greece)

Email: k.katsaliaki at ihu.edu.gr



Michael D. Williams (Swansea University, Wales, UK)

Email: m.d.williams at swansea.ac.uk



Angappa Gunasekaran (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, US)

Email: agunasekaran at umassd.edu



Thank you

Nav



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Dr. Navonil Mustafee



*Call For Papers: JEIM Special Issue on "Healthcare Simulation".
Download link:

http://sites.google.com/site/navonilmustafee/special-issue---call-for-pa
pers/download-cfp

Lecturer in Operations Management and Information Systems
School of Business and Economics, Haldane Building
Swansea University, Singleton Park
Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK.

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Yr Ysgol Busnes ac Economeg, Adeilad Haldane

Prifysgol Abertawe, Parc Singleton

Abertawe, SA2 8PP, Cymru, DU



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