Staff Scheduling in Health Care Systems

health‐caRe staff PeRsPectiVe

intRoduction Neither dramatic footage nor horrifying statistics from the most recent Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak come close to reflecting the true impact of the EBOV disease (EVD) on affected countries, communities, patients, health-care workers, or their friends and families.[1,2] With focus squarely on containing the outbreak and dealing with the immensity of the task at hand, many fail to no...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

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HIBISCUS: A Constraint Programming Application to Staff Scheduling in Health Care

This paper presents a constraint programming model and search strategy to formulate and solve staff scheduling problems in health care. This is a well-studied problem for which many different approaches have been developed over the years but it remains a challenge to successfully apply any given instance of a method to the various contexts encountered. We show how the main categories of rules i...

Appointment Scheduling in Health Care

NAN LIU: Appointment Scheduling in Health Care (Under the direction of Professor Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni and Professor Serhan Ziya) We propose two complementary approaches to the scheduling of outpatient appointments. The first approach is to dynamically assign appointment times depending on the continuously updated patient schedule. The second approach is to statically design the system by eithe...