Rafa Luque, Nursing Coordinator of the Surgical Process & Sterilisation, Hospital del Mar
Barcelona’ s Hospital del Mar prepares for quantum computing with 27 % more surgeries
Hospital del Mar, a research hospital in Barcelona, spent the past year working with
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, a Barcelonabased quantum computing company known for its multi-modal platform – combining digital and analog quantum processors with classical supercomputing. Together, they tackled one of healthcare’ s hardest logistics problems: surgical scheduling.
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Sometimes it is a bed.
t a hospital in Barcelona, the bottleneck is not always an operating room.
Hospital del Mar has 11 operating rooms but only 15 beds in its post-anaesthesia care unit. Every operation that leaves an operating room creates demand for recovery capacity. Schedule too many procedures requiring lengthy recovery at the wrong time and the unit fills up. Patients wait. Operating rooms sit idle. A schedule that looks efficient on paper can unravel as the day progresses.
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