Simulation of a Health Care Knowledge-based System with RFID-generated Information

摘要

Health care organizations are under increased pressure to continually increase their operational efficiency while decreasing the overall operating costs with no appreciable decrease in the delivered quality of health care. Given the nature of such an environment where lives are at stake, it is natural to operate under a larger safety factor where risks are kept close to their necessary minimum. RFID tags are increasingly being used in health care organizations to reduce errors and to generally increase the effectiveness of the processes. We consider management of bottled gas delivery within a health care environment through a knowledge-based decision support system using item-level information generated through RFID tags. We use simulation to study the underlying dynamics.