Planning Of Healthcare Facilities Research Articles

GIS in healthcare facility planning and management: A review

This paper explores the transformative role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in healthcare facility planning and management. Tracing the historical evolution, theoretical frameworks, applications, benefits, and challenges of GIS reveals its pivotal contribution to spatially informed decision-making. GIS optimizes resource allocation, enhances accessibility, and streamlines facility management. The integration with emerging technologies, including AI and IoT, propels healthcare infrastructure into an era of predictive modelling and real-time analytics. Addressing challenges such as data quality, privacy, and integration complexities requires comprehensive policies. Looking ahead, GIS in healthcare promises innovations like augmented reality and advanced remote sensing technologies, fostering resilient, patient-centric healthcare ecosystems. This abstract encapsulates the journey of GIS in healthcare, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize the spatial frontier of healthcare planning and management.

A Web-Application for Measuring Spatial Accessibility in Health Planning

Abstract. The planning of health care facilities and the analysis of the medical care situation are complex topics that generally involve geographical and, specifically, settlement topographical, methodological, data-driven aspects. However, formal analyses and planning in the field of healthcare usually only touch on the aspects or do not fully include some of them. As a result, the complex situation is often not accurately. This paper addresses the multidimensional challenges planners and analysts face. Solutions to overcome these hurdles thanks to improved data availability and more advanced technical and methodological possibilities are presented. For this purpose, a Web-Application is proposed that enables planners without GIS knowledge to interact with method components via parameter adjustments. Subsequently, it is examined whether the technical prerequisites for the implementation of a Web-Application for health planning, in particular for outpatient demand planning and analysis, are given and make a proposal for implementation. Finally, the advantages, disadvantages and possible complications of using this Application in health planning and analysis, including critical points of implementation, will be addressed.

Implementation of strategic planning in the practice of modern medical institution management: methodological and applied aspects

Introduction. Dismantling of the old economic model of health care as a purely budget organization, which took place under the influence of medical reform in Ukraine, led to a new nature of economic relations, the need for work and development of hospitals as participants in a competitive environment, regional or local health services market, exacerbated the impact of opportunities and threats. Given the uncertainty and dynamism of change, this highlights the need for strategic planning primarily at the level of medical institutions that provide secondary and tertiary (specialized) care to determine priorities and focus resources on achieving their development goals, which requires attention to the scientific and methodological framework ensuring this task.Purpose. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for strategic planning for the development of health care facilities in the context of medical reform and to develop recommendations for its implementation in their management.Research methods. In the course of the research the following methods were used: induction and deduction, system analysis - to determine the components of strategic planning at the level of health care, PEST analysis - to identify factors influencing the development of health care and factors that indicate the need to implement strategic planning in the hospital management system, institutional and comparative analysis - to identify features of strategic planning models, SWOT-analysis, expert assessments - to assess the internal and external environment of the organization, setting goals and strategic priorities.Results. Based on the analysis of the theoretical basis, the author’s approach to the interpretation of the essential characteristics of strategic planning of health care facilities is formed. The current state of the internal and external environment of health care facilities that provide secondary care in the context of health care reform in Ukraine is assessed, problems are identified. The planning system in medical institutions of this type is analyzed. The factors of actualization of the problem of implementation of strategic planning at the present stage are revealed and the necessity of its implementation in management of health care institutions is proved. Based on empirical evaluation conducted using the methods of expert collective commission, SPEIS-analysis, SWOT-analysis, the strengths and weaknesses of modern hospitals, opportunities and threats, the degree of probability and importance of the impact of opportunities and threats on the development of medical institutions, critical issues, the mission is specified, the main strategic goals and priorities are defined. An algorithm for the implementation of strategic planning in hospital management, a system of strategies and their content characteristics is proposed.Perspectives. Further research is needed on organizational design related to the implementation of strategies of medical institutions, organization of strategies, overcoming resistance to changes related to the implementation of strategies, training staff to work in new conditions, the use of other management actions aimed at building a perfect mechanism strategic planning.

Geographical analysis of health facilities in port Har-court city local government area, rivers state, Nigeria a case study of rivers state, Nigeria

One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which 2015 was the target date for its achievement now sustainable goal is stopping the spread of diseases that are preventable. GIS measures coverage, access and pattern's utilization of healthcare services and is important in the research, management, and planning of Healthcare facilities and system. This work, therefore, investigates the spatial distributions of healthcare facilities in Port Harcourt city LGA in Rivers State, Nigeria. Primary data was acquired using GPS handheld receiver and Secondary data such as the attribute (population data, names of hospitals) and spatial data (administrative map, road, and settlement) obtained from government official records. Data obtain shown on a map the spatial distributions of health facilities and access road to the facilities. The result also depicts a spatial distribution's pattern of healthcare facilities and thus insight gain in access to healthcare facilities and services in the LGA.

Using geographical information systems for defining the accessibility to health care facilities in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia.

Spatial data play an important role in the planning of health care facilities and their allocation. Today, geographical information systems (GIS) provide useful techniques for capturing, maintaining and analysing health care spatial data; indeed health geoinformatics is an emerging discipline that uses innovative geospatial technology to investigate health issues. The purpose of this paper is to define how GIS can be used for assessing the level of accessibility to health care. The paper identifies the advantages of using GIS in health care planning and covers GIS-based international accessibility with a focus on GIS applications for health care facilities in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. A geodatabase that includes location of health services, road networks, health care demand and population districts was created using ArcGIS software. The geodatabase produced is based on collected data and covers issues, such as defining the spatial distribution of health care facilities, evaluating health demand types and modelling health service areas based on analysis of driving-time and straight-line distances.

Healthcare Facility Planning, Design and Construction Conference

Healthcare Facility Planning, Design and Construction Conference

Simulation models in the planning of health care facilities: an application in the case of neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

To investigate whether modelling techniques can be used in the planning of health care facilities for patients requiring neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In a micro-simulation model the number of patients that will have to be referred to facilities abroad is estimated for any number of neonatal ECMO patients presenting annually for treatment in The Netherlands, and any number of ECMO facilities. The inputs to the model consist of the number of ECMO facilities, the number of patients presenting annually, the duration of treatment and the date on which patients present for ECMO treatment. The model is estimated on data from The Netherlands for 1992, during which 29 patients were treated in three facilities. Several future scenarios are modelled, principally one in which a potential increase to 56 patients per year is foreseen. The model indicates that, if such an increase takes place, no additional ECMO facilities will be necessary in The Netherlands if between three and four referrals annually to centres outside the region (or abroad) are considered acceptable and feasible. In that situation, it is expected that on 22 occasions each year two patients will be treated simultaneously, for a total of 81 days. On ten occasions, all three facilities will be occupied at the same time, for 21 days in total. On 199 days, at least one of the facilities will be occupied. The current study shows that the acceptability and feasibility of patient referrals to ECMO centres abroad is an important issue which health care planners will have to consider. The study also shows that modelling techniques can provide information that is useful to policy-makers in the planning of health care facilities.

Health care facility planning: Some developmental considerations

A model of the provision of health care facilities is outlined. This model is based on a framework developed in central place theory and is concerned with the scale, frequency and service area structure of health care facilities. Certain modifications to the model are proposed and this provides a framework for dealing with the problem of adjustment in systems of service provision. Three types of adjustment, all involving different degrees of centralization, are considered. Each type of adjustment results in a particular modification to the spatial structure of the hierarchical system. Consideration is then briefly given to a number of ways in which this general approach may be made more realistic, in order to deal with actual systems of service provision.

Regional Planning of Health Care Facilities

The regional planning of health care facilities is treated as a process of searching, integrating, screening, matching, evaluating, and selecting the type of facilities most suitable for the physical and socioeconomic environment in which the facilities are to be constructed. A rational procedure which matches various possible combinations of environmental features and performance characteristics of potential facility types is presented, and the process of determining the location and the extent of services of a facility in the region by means of sophisticated computer programming techniques is discussed in detail.

The logic of health care facility planning

This study presents a logical model for the planning of health care facilities. The objective is an optimal facility pattern, that is, one which maximizes net social benefit for the population of a metropolitan region. Several orders of services are denned and a successively inclusive facility hierarchy assumed for the provision of these services. A method is stated for determining the optimal scale and service area for each order. Net social benefit is computed from a set of basic functions which describe the demand for services, the unit cost of services, travel cost and benefits derived. The geometry of location and a region-wide view of the system are discussed.