Implementation issues of modeling healthcare problems: Misconceptions and lessons

Tillal Eldabi
2009 Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)  
Since the beginning of the 21 st century, the role of modeling and simulation in healthcare domain has seen unprecedented attention from the academic community. So much literature has focused on barriers facing implementation and uptake of modeling and simulation by the healthcare community. This article focuses on this issue and goes beyond that and examines the nature of healthcare problems and the causes of barriers using the concept of wicked problems. There is a clear mismatch between the
more » ... icked nature of healthcare problems and the tame approaches proposed by the modeling community. The article concludes that with the existence of such mismatch, implementation cannot be used to measure success, and further suggests guiding principles when developing modeling and simulation approaches to tackle wicked healthcare problems. These are based around redefining the meaning of success, problem profiling, modeling methods, and modeling skills. 1831 978-1-4244-5771-7/09/$26.00 ©2009 IEEE
doi:10.1109/wsc.2009.5429192 dblp:conf/wsc/Eldabi09 fatcat:vf4asapj6zb4hpfiz7lp42wvlm