Course on "Models and Methods for Scheduling Problems
and Applications to Health Care Delivery"
(Prof. Erik Demeulemeester)
March 16 - 18, 2010
UNIVERSITA' DELLA CALABRIA - DEIS
Cubo 42C
87036 Rende (Cosenza)
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ABSTRACT
This 8-hour course is mainly based on the research that our research
group has performed over the last ten years on scheduling in the health
care sector. The course will start with a conceptual framework that
covers the many different decisions that have to be taken in a health
care environment. Afterwards, we will deal with a number of the problems
that fit into this conceptual framework. We will discuss how the case
mix problem can align the many different resources that are necessary
within a health care environment with the patients that are entering the
hospital with many different pathologies. We will also analyze in detail
how a clever construction of cyclic master surgery schedules will lead
to a far more leveled resulting bed occupancy in the different wards of
the hospital and even how this might affect the nurse scheduling
problem, leading to a better assignment of the nurses to the different
wards. Next, we will discuss how the concept of a clinical pathway is
crucial in modeling the patient flow in a hospital and how this concept
might be useful in analyzing the impact of a number of decisions both at
the operational as well as at the tactical level. Finally, we will
consider a number of problems in which the detailed operational planning
might lead to improved patient and personnel satisfaction.
PROGRAM:
Universita della Calabria - DEIS, "Cubo 42C", Meeting Room, 5th Floor
March 16, 16:00 - 18:00
March 17, 10:30 - 12:30, 14:30 - 16:30
March 18, 9:30 - 11:30
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AUDIENCE:
The course is addressed to graduate students and postdocs, who are
interested in the Scheduling Problems and Applications to Health Care
Delivery and related fields.
The language of the course is English.
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