Operations
Research in Health Care
Conference Center “De Werelt”, in Lunteren, on January 14, 2010.
The Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB) and the Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB) jointly organize the one-day seminar "Operations Research in Health Care", in Conference Center “De Werelt” in Lunteren, on January 14, 2010. The seminar is the 12th 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), "Mathematical Models for Financial Optimization" (2005), "Operations Research and Health Care" (2006), "Operations Research and Public Transportation" (2007), "Operations Research and Energy" (2008) and "Operations Research and Traffic" (2009).
The conference language is English. To participate at the seminar, please go to Registration Seminar and send the form before January 3, 2010. 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.ABOUT THE THEME
The demand for health care resources is growing continuously due to an ageing population and technological advances. Since the available capacity shows an opposite trend, more efficient planning of health care processes is required to offer acceptable service levels for patients. Meanwhile, health care logistics has received a vastly growing interest of the Operations Research community. This has been illustrated by the organization of two highly successful conferences on OR in Health Care over the past two years. With this seminar, we continue this young tradition. We specifically aim to further narrow the gap between the practical challenges of health care professionals and the methodological tools of researchers working on OR.
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Registration and coffee |
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Welcome by the chairman Jacob van Wijngaard (Groningen) |
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Plenary session Keynote speaker: Armand Girbes (VU Medical Center, Amsterdam) Practical issues in patients logistics in the intensive care |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Coffee/tea break |
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sessions (invited and contributed papers) Sessie A: Liesbeth Vinke: Practical tools for optimizing bed allocation in hospitals Anja Stunnenberg: Reorganizing and resizing clinical wards Peer Goudswaard: Lean Six Sigma; a tool for applied operations research at the University Medical Center Groningen Sessie B: Nikky Kortbeek: Organizing outpatient clinics: Exploring the viability of walk-in based policies Paulien Out: Optimal outpatient scheduling with emergency arrivals Peter Hulshof: Redesigning ambulatory care with a doctor-travels-to-patient policy Sessie C: Han Hoogeveen: Personalized rosters for employees in a 24/7 environment at UMC Egbert van der Veen: On capacity planning in Health Care Sandjai Bhulai: Personnel planning for care-at-home service facilities |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch and ORTEC Excellence in Advanced Planning Award |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Parallel sessions (invited and contributed papers) Sessie A: Jan Vissers: A European perspective on OR in Healthcare Aleida Braaksma: Integral multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment planning Rienk Bijlsma: Balancing between capacity and care Sessie B: Maartje Zonderland: Planning and scheduling of semi-urgent surgeries Peter Vanberkel: An exact approach for relating recovering surgical patient workload to the master surgical schedule Nico Dellaert: Improving operational effectiveness of tactical master plans for emergency and elective patients under stochastic demand and capacitated resources |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee/tea break |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Plenary session Keynote speaker: Thierry Chaussalet (University of Westminster, London, UK) Applications of Operational Research in healthcare: challenges and opportunities |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Closing |
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Drinks |
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