Health Systems

2012 - 2026

Current editor(s): Sally Brailsford

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Volume 15, issue 2, 2026

Designing a minimum-cost health system for countrywide universal coverage pp. 91-110

João Flávio de Freitas Almeida, Fabricio Oliveira, Samuel Vieira Conceição, Virginie Goepp and Francisco Carlos Cardoso de Campos

A multi-site big data analysis of factors impacting the time to disposition in pediatric mental and behavioural health emergency department visits pp. 111-124

Samuel N. Koscelny, David M. Neyens, Farzad Zeinali, Kevin Taaffe, Anjali Joseph and Ann Dietrich

Reliability of ChatGPT-4o in analysing medical data: a test case study on patients at risk for limb amputation pp. 125-139

Liat Toderis, Iris Reychav, Roger McHaney, Bernice Oberman, Chen Speter and Ronen Loebstein

Outpatient chemotherapy planning and decision making: a systematic review pp. 140-173

Nazila Bazrafshan and Sarah S. Lam

IT-enabled medicine dispensing in the community pharmacy: an action design research project pp. 174-187

João Barata, Mateus Mendes, Ana Paula Melo Santos, Maria João Melo Neves, Kamil Woźniak, Anna Drozdz and José Sousa

Correction pp. 188-188

The Editors

Volume 15, issue 1, 2026

Drowning in data, starving for access: unlocking the bottleneck in molecular medicine and cancer research pp. 1-5

Kate Manley and Jerry SH Lee

A systematic review of operational research modelling for alcohol consumption and its consequences pp. 6-41

Elin H. Williams, Paul R. Harper, Geraint I. Palmer and Daniel Gartner

The combined use of natural language processing and electronic health records data to identify historical tolerances of β-lactams and promote clinician confidence in future use pp. 42-50

Matthew Gray, Richard D. Boyce and Sandra L Kane-Gill

Accessibility of big data in medicine: adjusting the duration of antibiotic treatment for gram-negative bloodstream infections pp. 51-65

Liat Toderis, Iris Reychav, Roger McHaney, Itai Gueta, Dafna Yahav and Ronen Loebstein

Generative AI models for type 2 diabetes mellitus risk prediction pp. 66-89

Elsa Sharu Johnson, Uma Gandhi, U. Srinivasulu Reddy and Umapathy Mangalanathan

Volume 14, issue 4, 2025

Towards a solution to the global healthcare crisis: using hierarchical decomposition and theory of constraints (TOC) to address the healthcare supply chain wicked problem pp. 249-275

James F. Cox and Victoria J. Mabin

A chance-constrained program for the allocation of nurses in acute home healthcare pp. 276-290

Jedidja Lok-Visser, Hayo Bos, Erwin W. Hans and Gréanne Leeftink

Revolutionising health monitoring: IOT-Based system with machine learning classification pp. 291-306

Alka Mishra, Aryan Dewangan and Mayank Dewangan

Adaptive vaccination and surveillance testing strategies for infectious diseases with diverse strain dynamics pp. 307-322

Xilin Zhang, Ozgur M. Araz and Zeynep Ertem

Leveraging quality improvement initiatives to support development of decision support tools in healthcare pp. 323-336

Joe Viana, Christos Vasilakis and Neophytos Stylianou

Volume 14, issue 3, 2025

The biopsychosocial perspective on designing mobile health apps for self-management of chronic headaches pp. 167-187

Polina Durneva and Cynthia LeRouge

A holistic view on the COVID-19 epidemic process: smoking cessation behaviour, epidemic process and precautions pp. 188-194

Muammer Albayrak and Ahmet Albayrak

Using routine health care data to develop and validate a system dynamics simulation model of frailty trajectories in an ageing population pp. 195-207

Tracey England, Bronagh Walsh, Sally Brailsford, Carole Fogg, Simon de Lusignan, Simon DS Fraser, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Abigail Barkham, Harnish P Patel and Andrew Clegg

Preeclampsia prediction via machine learning: a systematic literature review pp. 208-222

Mert Özcan and Serhat Peker

Acquisition of patients’ EHR information under ED congestion – an empirical investigation pp. 223-242

Ofir Ben-Assuli, David Gefen and Noam Shamir

From structures to systems: towards a model of ethical healthcare pp. 243-248

Constantine Manolchev, Marco Campenni and Navonil Mustafee

Volume 14, issue 2, 2025

Next-generation fall detection: harnessing human pose estimation and transformer technology pp. 85-103

Edward R. Sykes

Balanced patient assignment to healthcare centres through dispatching rules pp. 104-118

Aydin Teymourifar and Maria A. M. Trindade

Reallocation of chemotherapy appointments in a large health system using a mixed integer linear programming approach pp. 119-130

Lauren Moore and Yu-Li Huang

Hospital productivity and value in pay-for-performance healthcare programs pp. 131-144

Chenzhang Bao and Indranil R. Bardhan

Weekly home healthcare routing and scheduling with overlapping patient clusters pp. 145-165

Ai Zhao and Jonathan F. Bard

Volume 14, issue 1, 2025

Exploratory analysis using discrete event simulation modelling of the wait times and service costs associated with the maximum wait time guarantee policy applied in a rheumatology central intake clinic pp. 1-11

Toni Tagimacruz, Monica Cepoiu-Martin and Deborah A. Marshall

Application of a composite, multi-scale COVID-19 mitigation framework: US border use-case pp. 12-30

Zach Danial, Nathan Edwards, John James, Paula Mahoney, Casey Corrado and Brian Savage

A simple and practical approach to improving the cost effectiveness of surgical inventory management pp. 31-42

Michael W. Carter, Tammi Hawa and Carolyn Busby

Improving COVID-19 vaccination centre operation through computer modelling and simulation pp. 43-57

Richard M. Wood, Simon J. Moss, Ben J. Murch, Chris Davies and Christos Vasilakis

Managing disrupted supply chains in Swedish hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 58-68

Ritva Rosenbäck, Björn Lantz and Peter Rosén

A simulation-based approach to analysing delays in the transport of critically ill neonates pp. 69-84

Lun Li, Viveka Saraiya, Rachel A. Umoren, Matthew W. Cook, Taylor L. Sawyer and Prashanth Rajivan

Volume 13, issue 4, 2024

Towards new frontiers of healthcare systems research using artificial intelligence and generative AI pp. 263-273

Samir Chatterjee, Ann Fruhling, Kathy Kotiadis and Daniel Gartner

A systematic review of simulation methods applied to cancer care services pp. 274-294

Amalia Gjerloev, Sonya Crowe, Christina Pagel, Yogini Jani and Luca Grieco

Estimating the workload of a multi-disciplinary care team using patient-level encounter histories pp. 295-315

Ekin Koker, Hari Balasubramanian, Rebecca Castonguay, Aliecia Bottali and Aaron Truchil

Taking a systems approach to promote posttraumatic growth: A position paper pp. 316-321

Megan E. Call, Heather R. Walker, Michael L. Good, Joe Borgenicht, Gretchen A. Case and Amy B. Locke

Determinants of health-related quality of life among patients with Ischemic heart disease pp. 322-331

Olfa Jlassi, Amira Omrane, Mejdi Ben Massoud, Taoufik Khalfallah, Lamia Bouzgarrou and Habib Gamra

Assistance systems for patient positioning in radiotherapy practice pp. 332-360

Ralf Müller-Polyzou, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Jasmin Feger, Nicolas Meier and Anthimos Georgiadis

Volume 13, issue 3, 2024

Fractured systems: a literature review of OR/MS methods applied to orthopaedic care settings and treatments pp. 151-176

Matthew Howells, Paul Harper, Geraint Palmer and Daniel Gartner

The role of Hospital-Based Cancer Registries (HBCRs) as information systems in the delivery of evidence-based integrated cancer care: a scoping review pp. 177-191

Sheela Tripathee, Sara Jane MacLennan, Amudha Poobalan, Muhammad Imran Omar and Aravinda Meera Guntupalli

Resilience of hospitals in an age of disruptions: a systematic literature review on resources and capabilities pp. 192-228

Nunzia Carbonara, Roberta Pellegrino and Cristina De Luca

Understanding epidemic spread patterns: a visual analysis approach pp. 229-245

Junqi Wu, Zhibin Niu and Xiufeng Liu

Impact of quality of service in the direct cost of integrated home care services pp. 246-262

Jésica de Armas, Marcelus Fabri and Helena Ramalhinho

Volume 13, issue 2, 2024

Data-driven analyses to quantify information seeking behaviour for women with uterine fibroids pp. 73-96

Saleigh Q. Derico, Karen Hicklin, Lauren B. Davis and Kim C. Brooks

A generic sustainable performance management system for hospital supply chain: design & analysis pp. 97-108

Anas Ziat, Naoufal Sefiani, Hamid Azzouzi and Kamal Reklaoui

Exploring adaptive mirroring in healthcare IT architectures pp. 109-120

Egil Øvrelid

Long term simulation analysis of deceased donor initiated chains in kidney exchange programs pp. 121-132

Utkarsh Verma, Nayaran Rangaraj, Viswanath Billa and Deepa Usulumarty

Probabilistic forecasting of hourly emergency department arrivals pp. 133-149

Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Jethro Browell and Ivan Svetunkov

Volume 13, issue 1, 2024

Resilience as a measure of preparedness for pandemic influenza outbreaks pp. 1-10

Daniel Romero Rodriguez, Walter Silva, Alex Savachkin, Tapas Das and Julio Daza

Assessing the maturity and performance of the IT function in acute-care hospitals: a configurational view pp. 11-23

Manon G. Guillemette, Louis Raymond and Guy Paré

Health systems and quality of healthcare: bringing back missing discussions about gender and sexuality pp. 24-30

Ana Porroche-Escudero

Staff pooling in healthcare systems – results from a mixed-methods study pp. 31-47

Carina Fagefors, Björn Lantz, Peter Rosén and Levi Siljemyr

Achieving rapid and significant results in healthcare services by using the theory of constraints pp. 48-61

Gustavo M. Bacelar-Silva, James F. Cox and Pedro Rodrigues

Vision-based gait analysis for real-time Parkinson disease identification and diagnosis system pp. 62-72

Sathya Bama B and Bevish Jinila Y