Tag: Healthcare

Enhancing a visual analysis tool with conformance checking based on anti-pattern analysis at Philips Healthcare

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Philips Healthcare produces an image-guided therapy system, called Azurion, that helps surgeons to execute complex procedures. In the past Master projects at Philips Healthcare, Master students have already developed a visual logfile analysis tool that has been making waves within our organization and conformance checking methods to address anti-patterns describing unwanted behavior. Now, we’re looking Read More …

Predicting the need of Nursing or Care Home and Home Care

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(Verpleeg- en Verzorgingshuizen en Thuiszorg (VVT) in Dutch)  The St. Antonius hospital in Nieuwegein is an ambitious top clinical training hospital. Every year, more than 40,000 patients are admitted, of which 6,000 patients go home through Care Mediation with home care or to a nursing or care home. This outflow is very erratic with seasonal influences. At Read More …

Emergency and Operating rooms at HagaZiekenhuis

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Two of the most important parts of a hospital are the Emergency room and the Operating room. HagaZiekenhuis deals with tens of thousands of patients every year. For each patient, everything is recorded in the Electronic Patient Record (Chipsoft Hix). Exploring the data recorded by both areas of the hospital opens the possibilities to understand Read More …

Happy nurses

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The biggest problem that Dutch hospitals face today is the lack of nursing staff. Therefore, hospital beds are closed to maintain safety levels for the already admitted patients. However, patients on the waiting list or those already planned for elective care experience longer waiting times. And sometimes emergency care beds have to be closed causing Read More …