Workflow simulation drives efficient healthcare outcomes by making best use of space, equipment, and staff to improve care delivery and create human-centered hospital operations that will improve staff satisfaction and enhance patient experience. To predict the impact of operational layout changes, it utilizes a protected 3D environment, a so called “digital twin” of your institution, to simulate more efficient scenarios making use of patient pathways, staff scheduling and movements, utilization and performance data from diagnostic equipment, and other data sources to build a dynamic and comprehensive model that can be used as a testbed. This identifies sustainable improvement opportunities within your hospital workflows, and drives operational excellence for informed decisions that deliver better revenue.
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Main benefits
- Visualization of clinical processes and workflows
- Transparency on dependencies of resource allocation, capacity, and utilization
- Stress test different scenarios with small investment
- Patient-centric or provider-centric view of processes
- Identify improvement measures more easily and predict operational and financial impact
- Lower cost burden by increased device utilization
Outcome specific, quantitative basis & stress test scenarios
There are three primary healthcare domains where workflow simulation has already proven its worth: The outcome specific scenario, the quantitative basis scenario & the stress test. Our consultants guide the selection of scenarios that allow us to experiment with process improvements, bypassing costly real-world trials, and providing valuable insights for your institutions.
Merging departments could deliver increased operational efficiency and support the 15% productivity gain target of the new hospital at Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
Potential improvements of the MRI workflow for breast screening have been identified at Radboud UMC, Netherlands.
Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk, Netherlands could provide additional MRI scans as identified during the stress test.
Meet Blerim Pruthi
Head of Planning Solutions for Cardiology, Interventional Radiology and Surgery
Blerim joined Siemens Healthineers in 2008 and has since worked in several key roles. Since 2015 he has been the head of Planning Solutions for Cardiology, Interventional Radiology, and Surgery. The team he leads is responsible for the layout and design of clinical spaces for these three specialties. Blerim and his talented colleagues provide optimal solutions for entire healthcare facilities, individual departments within facilities, or, occasionally, just one important room. One of Blerim’s more recent projects centered on a new heart center that was planned by two hospitals that had merged. The project required the team to anticipate how cardiovascular care will look in the future.
Latest Insights
The value of workflow simulation
Digital twins – virtualized presentations of facilities and processes – have emerged as powerful tools for healthcare providers. They can reduce the time and expense of piloting different solutions and approaches in the physical world.