((MODYPLAN)) - Early-Stage Hospital Simulation with Emphasis on Cross-Clinical Treatment Chains

摘要

Health trusts are aiming to consolidate the clinical landscape: The provision of medical services, now handled by individual clinics, is to be transformed such that the patient volume can be redirected between different specialized service providers. As implication, hospital planning needs to embrace the subject of cross-clinical development rather than looking at each facility in isolation. In this context, we have been developing ((MODYPLAN)), a cross-clinical simulation for early-stage architectural planning. Our software takes the patient volume as input and redirects it to different facilities, each one having a different spatial layouts and treatment capacity. As outputs, we obtain the utilization and occupancy of each service unit on which we can base further analysis concerning bottlenecks. Furthermore, different configurations of the clinical landscape can be compared, facilitating a multi-faceted discussion among stakeholders (clinical providers, their staff and patients). As audience, we target hospital administration, architects and process designers preparing or working on tenders. Such an early application of cross-clinical simulation is, to the best of our knowledge, yet unprecedented.