PATRONE C.

Healthcare and more precisely private hospitals are critical and complex environments where making appropriate decisions is vital. For this reason, they are widely studied in many fields. This paper aims to provide the current state of the art of Digital Twin and/or Simulation involved in Decision Support System (DSS) whose data are processed...

Industry 4.0 (I4), the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is having a strong impact in all industrial sector but, although less evident, it is also bringing important results in other fields such as Healthcare Systems. In fact, Hospitals can be effectively considered smart factories because they are "factory" which "context-aware assists people and...

Background: the complexity of nurse managers' role is gradually changed from assistance to management. The aim of this study is to implement an innovative indicator to globally evaluate the features, the professional skills and their performance is described. Methods: the authors found out the features of a valuable nurse managers through an...