A Digital Twin Based Decision Support System for the Management of an Operating Room

Abstract

With healthcare demand rising worldwide, hospital services are increasingly needed. Hospitals' performance is tightly linked to their surgical suite performance, which makes it necessary for surgical suites to be efficient. In this paper, we focus on the operating room schedule execution and related decision-making. We thus propose a digital twin-based decision support system for the prospective and retrospective simulation and analysis of the operating room schedule execution. We describe the developed prototype (inputs/output/parameters/modeling) and its functionalities and show its application to an operating room inspired by a real case.