Simulate Hospital Bed Allocation for a Healthtech Decision Support Pilot
Overview
What this challenge is about.
You receive 12 months of anonymized admissions and discharges data plus ward layouts (medicine, surgery, ICU, geriatrics) and a small set of clinical transfer rules. Build a discrete-event simulator (SimPy or hand-rolled) of patient flow across wards. Evaluate three allocation policies: current first-come-first-served, a senior-bed-manager heuristic, and a priority-rules policy. Report mean and p95 waiting time, ward utilization, and inter-ward transfers per 1,000 admissions. Recommend a policy with explicit uncertainty bounds.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Recommend a bed-allocation policy with explicit uncertainty bounds, backed by a discrete-event simulation of 12 months of admissions data.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Build discrete-event simulators that match operational data
- Compare allocation policies under stochastic conditions
- Express uncertainty in policy recommendations honestly
- Communicate simulation results to a non-technical operations audience
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
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Skills
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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Applied AI Scientist
Simulation-based decision support for operations leaders is the bread and butter of applied AI scientists in healthcare and logistics.
This challenge sharpens
- discrete-event-simulation
- policy-comparison
- uncertainty-quantification
Data Scientist
Building credible simulators and writing operations-grade memos is exactly the kind of analytical work data scientists own in healthtech.
This challenge sharpens
- simpy
- policy-comparison
- python
AI Solutions Architect
Scoping decision-support pilots with simulation evidence is a recurring solutions-architect responsibility in regulated industries.
This challenge sharpens
- decision-support-systems
- policy-comparison
- uncertainty-quantification