How a major cancer center reduced treatment times (opens in new tab)

New Rutgers research suggests that much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by re-creating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible improvements. The study in the Annals of Operations Research explains how researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rutgers Business School built a working computer simulation of the institute's blood cancer clinic and used it to identify and fix bottlenecks that kept patients waiting up to three...