Models for Assessing Strategies for Improving Hospital Capacity for Handling Patients during a Pandemic.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of key hospital units associated with emergency care of both routine emergency and pandemic (COVID-19) patients under capacity enhancing strategies.

Methods: This investigation was conducted using whole-hospital, resource-constrained, patient-based, stochastic, discrete-event, simulation models of a generic 200-bed urban U.S.

Assessing resilience of hospitals to cyberattack.

Objective: This paper investigates the impact on emergency hospital services from initiation through recovery of a ransomware attack affecting the emergency department, intensive care unit and supporting laboratory services. Recovery strategies of paying ransom to the attackers with follow-on restoration and in-house full system restoration from backup are compared.

Methods: A multi-unit, patient-based and resource-constrained discrete-event simulation model of a typical U.