Towards Emergency Systems Engineering: A Background

Abstract

The emergency department (ED) setting within the healthcare system is quite complex, and it is necessity to perform mathematical modelling to examine the challenge of long waiting times and the ways in which it can influence EDs and patients experiencing and predict conditions that need to be urgently addressed. In addition, the ways in which certain mathematical models could help in assessing solutions to issues like waiting time and ensure that suitable care is offered to patients at all times based on decision matrix and related big data source is therefore analyzed. Various studies have been carried out in the last decade that examine the challenges faced by EDs to offer research evidence that can help in enhancing the ways in which health providers offer care to their patients and in today worlds with crisis and hazard mode like COVID-19, healthcare systems are barely able to tackle this pandemic.