Early design decision support with system dynamics approaches - Example of telehealth integration in the healthcare system

Camille Jean (1, 2) , Julie Le Cardinal (2) , Marija Jankovic (2) , Jean-Claude Bocquet (2)

1 Ecole Centrale Paris
2 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606

The purpose of this article is to use System Dynamics approaches for early design decision support. Telehealth is proposed in many articles as one of the possibilities to answer the challenges of keeping and reinforcing the goodness and fairness of the healthcare systems. But very few studies focus on predicting telehealth integration in the current healthcare system. The model proposed in this paper simulates several scenarios of telehealth integration in order to reduce healthcare cost and save valuable medical time. It also highlights the main factors that have the most influence on the results and provides help for healthcare managers to choose between different strategies and healthcare policies.

Mots clés: Decision making; System Dynamics; Systems engineering

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Ingénierie biomédicale

Camille Jean, Julie Le Cardinal, Marija Jankovic, Jean-Claude Bocquet. Early design decision support with system dynamics approaches - Example of telehealth integration in the healthcare system. The 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13), Aug 2013, Séoul, South Korea. pp.46. ⟨hal-00871613⟩