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Health Care Management
Prof. Dr. Teresa Melo (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (HTW))
Description
The field of health care provides a broad range of applications suitable for analysis using Operations Research (OR) techniques. Recent technological innovations in medicine and health care as well as advances in information and communication technologies further broadened the application scope of OR models and methods in health care. In addition to cost savings, health care OR improves efficiency and effectiveness in health care service delivery.
Submissions are welcomed that involve innovative applications of existing OR models and/or the development of new models and techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, management and optimization of health care operations, resource allocation, capacity planning, workforce staffing, treatment design, patient flow modeling, quality and performance measurement, disease prevention modeling.
