This document summarizes a presentation by Areej Al-Wabil, Phd from Prince Sultan University on simulation modelling in healthcare. It discusses how simulation is used to model patient flow in emergency rooms, allocate hospital resources, and model disease transmission. It also outlines some of the challenges of healthcare simulation, including issues with platforms, data sources, engineering processes, visualization, and modeling agent characteristics. The presentation aims to provide an overview of challenges and trends in simulation modelling for healthcare applications.

1. Presenter: Areej Al-Wabil, Phd
Prince Sultan University
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Simulation Modelling in
Healthcare: Challenges
and Trends
Sulaf Al-Magooshi, Areej Al-Wabil
College of Computer and Information Sciences
Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2. Introduction: Simulation
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3. Simulation
in
Healthcare
Management of patient
flow inside emergency
rooms [1][[2].
Allocation of human
resources around the
hospital [3][4].
Patient
admission [5].
Hospital bed utilization [6][7].
simulate populations with a
specific chronic disease [8].
with a particular
disease of a network
that provides
healthcare services [8].
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4. Systematic Literature Review
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5. Simulation
Platform
Engineering
Process
Data Collection
GUIs and
Interaction modes
Agent
Characteristics
Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
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6. Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
• Platforms
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7. Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
• Data Sources
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Real Time Data Historical Data
Random Data Generation

8. Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
• Engineering Process
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• Overview, Design concepts and Detail (ODD) Protocol

9. Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
• Visualization
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10. Challenges of Simulation in Healthcare:
• Agent characteristics
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Agents in models concerned with
scheduling are often represented
using high level attributes that are
directly derived from the problem
itself
Publications of studying the
spread of a certain disease
humanize agents by defining
detailed socio-demographic
attributes.

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Author : Sulaf Almagooshi
Prince Sultan University
Email : almagooshis@acm.org
Thesis Advisor: Areej Al-Wabil, PhD
Prince Sultan University
Email : awabil@psu.edu.sa
Simulation Modelling in Healthcare:
Challenges and Trends