Ophthalmology Department

Introduction

I propose a simulation of a hospital department(ophthalmologist, as i have to wear glasses and spent some time there) using Anylogic software. I will simulate physical placement of rooms, how people move there, time needed to complete the examination and so on to get clear representation of business state(how many patients in a day? in a year? How to improve? How much money can be save with optimization?).

The result of the simulation will be a set of recommendations, e.g. if ophthalmology will need to expand, and raise prices or something else to optimize patients examination and bring business to the full potential.

Problem definition

The goal for this model is to analyze daily work of the department and determine if patients are taken care of in an optimal way. Exact time of the procedures and movement of patients and doctors will be taken into consideration. Also, exact plan of the department will be used in this model to represent real environment for times evaluation, to be correct with movement speed and calculate paths of patients and doctors. Additional rules for the model:

  1. Patient firstly goes to the waiting room. There he waits for 
     his doctor who will take care of him.
  2. Inspection will be done in one of the rooms. Doctor and a patient go to free room, if there is no room available, 
     patient waits in the waiting room until one frees. 
  3. Doctor inspects patient with ophthalmoscope which he brings with him from storage before he takes on a patient. 
  4. After procedure patient goes home and doctor goes to his room.