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  • Clinical Informatics
  • Operations Research

Background:

  • Clinicians experience challenges with patient loads, reimbursements, and electronic health record (EHR) impacts on productivity.
  • Limited guidance exists for improving clinical efficiency in busy practices.
  • Optimizing clinic workflow is crucial for effective healthcare delivery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the utility of discrete event simulation (DES) models for enhancing outpatient clinic efficiency.
  • To evaluate the use of secondary EHR timing data for building these simulation models.
  • To assess the application of DES in resource allocation and novel scheduling strategies within ophthalmology clinics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing secondary electronic health record (EHR) timestamp data to construct discrete event simulation (DES) models.
  • Analyzing clinic workflow and operational bottlenecks through simulation.
  • Evaluating resource allocation and scheduling strategies using simulation outputs.

Main Results:

  • Secondary EHR data accurately represents clinic workflow in simulation models.
  • Simulations offer valuable insights into optimal resource allocation for clinics.
  • Simulation models provide critical data for clinic managers to inform scheduling decisions.
  • Models built from EHR data show potential for generalizability across different clinical settings.

Conclusions:

  • Discrete event simulation (DES) models, built from EHR data, are effective tools for improving clinic efficiency.
  • These models support data-driven decision-making for resource management and scheduling.
  • The approach offers a potentially generalizable method for optimizing outpatient clinic operations.