The operating room (OR) department of a hospital forms the heart of the organization, where the single largest cost is incurred. This document presents and reports on the “Operating Room Manager Game”, developed to give insight into managing a large hospital’s OR department at various levels of control, and the difficulties of applying OR/MS techniques in healthcare. The players take on the rol...

Wireless Body area networks have its applications in healthcare applications like remote monitoring of vital signs of patients in hospitals. Due to the increasing population an change of lifestyle health problems are getting worse. Due to busy schedule people does not have time to visit the doctor. Sometimes in case of emergency doctors are not available. WBAN technology also helps the old peop...

The aging of the global population and increasing number patients with chronic diseases necessitate an efficient healthcare operations mechanism to enable provision appropriate services in a timely cost-efficient manner. This research provides solution for two unanswered critical challenges team-based resource planning by employing machine learning stochastic optimization. first challenge is ho...

An interior point constraint generation algorithm for semi-infinite optimization with healthcare application* Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi† College of Business Administration, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, California 92096, USA, Email: [email protected] Hamid R. Ghaffari Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, M5S 3G8, Canada, Em...

In this paper, we develop a new generalized network model for the optimization of the complex operations of medical nuclear supply chains in the case of the radioisotope molybdenum, with a focus on minimizing the total operational cost, the total waste cost, and the risk associated with this highly time-sensitive and perishable, but critical, product used in healthcare diagnostics. Our model al...

Malnutrition is prevalent in patients undergoing elective total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Malnutrition has been shown to be an independent risk factor for multiple postsurgical complications following TJA in addition to increasing postoperative mortality. In the current healthcare environment, it is important to recognize and correct modifiable risk factors preoperatively to minimize perioperat...

Outbreaks of infectious diseases or multi-casualty incidents have the potential to generate a large number of patients. It is a challenge for the healthcare system when demand for care suddenly surges. Traditionally, valuation of heath care spatial accessibility was based on static supply and demand information. In this study, we proposed an optimal model with the three-step floating catchment ...

Distributed wireless sensor network technologies have become one of the major research areas in healthcare industries due to rapid maturity in improving the quality of life. The implementation of ubiquitous healthcare systems provides rich contextual information and warning mechanisms against abnormal conditions with continual and remote monitoring of patients. This minimizes the need for healt...