A novel cell transmission model for multi-departmental health care systems

Abstract

With the development of people’s material life, health care serve plays an increasingly important role in today’s society. However, the health care resources remain insufficient to satisfy the large demand of people, especially in the multi-departmental healthcare systems, such as the large-scale hospitals. In such complex systems, departments interact with each other very actively and complicatedly, resulting in difficulties to use reduction method to improve the efficiency and performance of the whole system. A system level method is desired to model the multi-departmental systems. Therefore, this study proposes a novel cell transmission model to examine the performance of the multi-departmental health care systems. A case study is also provided to validate the proposed model.