Toolbox

Calculations and optimizations without data connection

Without complicated data connections between source systems and Simbox, you can immediately perform complex calculation easily. How can patients in the outpatient department be planned optimally, and how does an optimal OR schedule look like?

Watch a short video explaining all tools rapidly. For more detailed explanations, see the corresponding videos for each tool.

Advanced tools easy to use

We offer a complete toolbox, easy to use and without data linkage, that allows hospitals to calculate their capacity needs and put together optimal schedules.

No data connection necessary

Simple to use, but advanced capacity calculators

State-of-the-arts optimization algorithms

built with knowledge of hospitals

PATHWAY CREATOR

Easily define the paths how different groups of patients move through the outpatient department, OR, radiology departments and wards. Based on annual or monthly production numbers and routing through the hospital, the underlying calculators are provided with a scenario. In this way, multiple tools are provided with the correct data from one tool.

BED Capacity calculators

Easily determine the required capacity if you want to allow a certain degree of rejection in a department or determine this blocking probability for a given capacity. Or instead of blocking, determine the expected waiting time, probability of waiting and the service level. Also with the capability to handle time-dependent arrivals.

Outpatient schedule

Determine the optimal blueprint for outpatient appointments in which outpatient appointments of different types should be scheduled, each with their specific characteristics. The aim is to optimize a weighted sum of the patient waiting time, physician idle time and overtime.
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OR Master schedule

Calculate the effect of the OR master schedule on the required bed capacities in the hospital. Shuffle sessions and patient mix to achieve an optimal match between the OR and the hospital wards, or have the optimal schedule calculated by Simbox where you are able to enter conditions to the schedule yourself.
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Bedplan

Determine the optimal allocation of specialties to departments. By indicating the possible wards for each speciality, this tool automatically searches for the optimal allocation with the aim of minimising the risk of shortage of beds in the wards.

OR Capacity calculator

Determine the number of OR sessions required to schedule the production in a combination of different session lengths. In doing so, aim for an acceptable chance of overtime, expected overtime, or a desired occupancy rate of sessions.

Radiology capacity calculator

Determine the number of radiology sessions required to schedule the production in a combination of different session lengths. In doing so, aim for an acceptable chance of overtime, expected overtime, or a desired occupancy rate of sessions.

Outpatient capacity calculator

Determine the number of outpatient sessions required to schedule the production in a combination of different session lengths. In doing so, aim for an acceptable chance of overtime, expected overtime, or a desired occupancy rate of sessions.

Dice games

Simple and advanced dice games with one process step or a series of process steps, with patients going through multiple steps. See the effect of variability on the queues at each step and assess the impact of variability reduction on the entire chain.

Distribution fitter

Automatically determine the best-fit probability distribution based on your data set, for both continuous and discrete data sets. The optimal parameters can easily be transferred directly into e.g. Excel for further processing.

Outlier detection

Automatically determine the outliers (extreme values) in your dataset, leaving a cleaned dataset for further processing by you.