Operations Research and Health Care

Jointly organized by the Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB) and the Nederlands Genootschap Besliskunde (NGB)
Conference Center  “De Werelt”, in Lunteren, on January 19, 2006.

The Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB) and the Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB) jointly organize the one-day seminar "Operations Research and Health Care", in Conference Center “De Werelt” in Lunteren, on January 19, 2006.  The seminar is the 8th in a series of annual seminars, following the previous successful seminars on “Operations Research & Enterprise Resource Planning” (1999), “Operations Research in Financial Management” (2000), “E-commerce & Operations Research” (2001), “Capacity management – How operations research models support decision makers” (2002), “New developments in Operations Research software” (2003), "On-line methods: Challenges for OR in a real-time world" (2004) and "Mathematical Models for Financial Optimization" (2005).

In the past years the last day of the Operations Research (OR) conference in Lunteren was meant specially for OR people. In OR there are many techniques and methods to solve problems. New techniques and methods are being discovered but there could be much more implementations of the OR solutions in the various fields. In OR we need a target definition and boundaries in witch the optimal solution can be generated. As of 2006 boundaries in the Dutch health care will be defined in the program of the Dutch administration of Health care “sneller beter”. Due to these clearly set boundaries OR has a bigger change to be implemented in this field.

The NGB has chosen a new target in its policy: the generation of markets for the methods and techniques which are available in the OR. Operations Research (OR) is already indispensable in making diagnoses and prognoses in medicine. For instance for optimization of radiation strategy for tumors OR techniques are used. Many OR applications can be used in the logistics of health care. Because of the new policy of the Dutch secretary of Heath care from 2006 new and sensitive decisions have to be made. OR can be of great help to make objective and optimal decisions so that professionals can get a clear view what the price is of their preferences. For example: how to make a central decision in what medicine belongs to the publicly financed domain and which company gets the assignment to produce medicines? On this day we will cover three themes; one hour each. For each theme there will be one speaker from health care to define the problems, one speaker from the OR society to suggest some solutions and one speaker dealing with implementations of the solutions in dialog with the audience.

So the themes of the seminar are:
1. OR and logistics in health care.
2. OR and medical treatment.
3. OR and decision making in health care.

One of our objectives would be that this day would result in cooperation between teams of OR and health care.

The conference language is English. To participate at the seminar, please go to Registration Seminar and send the form before January 9, 2006. The conference fee is 75 Euro for LNMB and NGB members, and 125 Euro for others. You will receive an invoice after your registration form has been received. The conference fee covers lunch, coffee, tea, and the drinks. 

SEMINAR PROGRAM
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome and introduction by the chairman Anne Jonkman
10.20 - 12.20	OR and logistics in health care
	Michael Carter: Operations Research in the health care or Who let the engineer into the hospital? (click here for the presentation)
	Mark van Houdenhoven: Hospital process optimization: where to start?
	Gerhard Wullink: Health care process optimization: mathematics is the easy part! (click here for the presentation)
	Erwin Hans: Operations research based process optimization at Erasmus MC (click here for the presentation)
12.20 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.30	OR and medical treatment
	Dick den Hertog: Introduction
	Eva Lee: Operations Research Challenges in Medicine and HealthCare
	Aswin Hoffmann: Multi-objective fluence map optimization for intensity-modulated radiotherapy (click here for the presentation)
	Marjolein van Ballegooijen & Dik Habbema: Health care efficiency improvement in action: the case of cervical cancer screening in the Netherlands
15.45 - 17.15	OR and decision making in health care
	Joris van de Klundert: Introduction (click here for the presentation)
	Maarten Rutgers: Integral improvement of the orthopaedic chain (click here for the presentation)
	Etienne Rouwette: System dynamics modeling on health care: supply and demand of dementia care (click here for the presentation)
17.15 - 18.00	Drinks

 
  
 

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