[DMANET] CFP: IJPR special issue of Operations Research in Healthcare

Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Operations Research in Healthcare"
in
International Journal of Production Research
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/current

Special Issue Editors
Xiaolan Xie, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France (xie@emse.fr) and
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mark Lawley, Purdue University, USA (malawley09@yahoo.com)

Motivation –
Demographic change and increasing health expenditures in the world make the
healthcare delivery research a hot topic. Hospitals in the world are
becoming larger and larger to take advantage of the scale economic but also
become more and more complex to design and to operate. Aging population
makes chronic diseases increasingly important and leads to the need of
better disease prevention, diagnostic, treatment planning and proactive
cares. Patients are more and more concerned by healthcare safety and
traceability. Healthcare systems are also changing and new health services
such as home healthcare and telemedicine are growing. Most hospitals used to
empiric management are not prepared for and innovative systems engineering
approaches are needed.

Recent development of advance medical technologies makes the systems
engineering approach possible. The increasing availability of healthcare
relevant data makes possible better disease prevention, diagnostic and
healthcare system operations. Automation technologies such as robotics and
ICT technologies are making healthcare logistics more efficient and safer.
Innovative operations research techniques have been developed for a wide
range of healthcare applications such as operating room planning, emergency
department staffing, breast cancer screening, radiotherapy treatment
planning, home healthcare planning, long-term care planning and scheduling,

Scope and Topics –
The goal of this IJPR special issue is to provide a comprehensive view of
health services improvement by systems engineering approaches such as
operations research, industrial engineering and control theories. It
includes, but not limited to, the following topics:

Healthcare delivery planning and scheduling
Hospital logistics & supply chain management
Health information analytics
Healthcare safety and traceability
Work-force staffing and planning
Emergency Department Models
Disease modelling and prevention
Clinical pathways and workflow modelling
Emergency response planning and evaluation
Home healthcare

Important Dates (tentative)
Original, full-paper, manuscript submission by authors: April 1, 2014
Reviews sent to authors: July 1, 2014
Revised manuscript submission by authors: October 1, 2014
Final revised manuscript submission to the publisher: December 1, 2014
Online publication: January 2015
Only high quality papers that require limited modifications will be accepted
to meet the deadlines.

Submission procedure
Each manuscript will be refereed for publication by at least 2 reviewers.
The length of the submitted article should be within 6,000 words including
tables, references and appendices. Manuscripts must be prepared in the
English language and should conform to International Journal of Production
Research's guidelines which are available at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tprs20&page=i
nstructions

Papers should be submitted viahttp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tprs

Please ensure that you select the special issue on "Operations Research in
Healthcare" while submitting the manuscript.

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Prof. Xiaolan XIE
Head, Department Healthcare engineering - Centre for Health Engineering
Head, IEOR team - LIMOS CNRS UMR 6158
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Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines
158 cours Fauriel
42023 Saint-Etienne cedex 2 France
Tel. +33 (0)4 77 42 66 95
Fax +33 (0)4 77 42 02 49
xie@emse.fr
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AND

chair professor
Director, Center for Healthcare Engineering
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Dept. Industrial Engineering & Logistics Management
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
800 Dong Chuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
Tel: +86 21 3420 6101, Mobile: +86 1521 4327 830
Email:xie@sjtu.edu.cn
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