Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering

Andrea Matta, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Evren Sahin, Ecole Centrale Paris, Laboratoire Génie Industriel Jingshan Li , College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ettore Lanzarone, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (IMATI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) John Fowler, Department of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University

• Home care services delivery: equity versus efficiency in optimization models.- Redesigning organ allocation boundaries for  liver transplantation in the United States.- A routing problem for test sample collection in home health care.- A two-stage approach for solving assignment and routing problems in home health care services.- Applying the cardinality–constrained approach in health care systems: the home care example.- Synchronization between human resources in home health care context.- Simulation-based analysis of patient flow in elective surgery.- Optimizing efficiency and operations at a large California  safety-net endoscopy center: A modeling and simulation approach.- Analysis of Gastroenterology (GI) clinic: A systems approach.- Operating room joint planning and scheduling.- Risk-aware scheduling of elective surgeries.- Investigating the relationship between resources balancing and robustness in master surgical scheduling.- Expert’s evaluation of innovative surgical instrument and operative procedure using haptic interface in virtual reality.- A robust optimization approach for the operating room planning problem with uncertain surgery duration.- The methodological approach to process analysis for robotic surgical procedures: the experience of SAFROS and I-SUR projects.- A whole-system approach to identify the sources of variation in patient flow.- A broader view on health care system design and modeling.- Epidemic state estimation with syndromic surveillance and ILI data using particle filter.- A decision-making approach supporting hospital drug logistics.- Analyzing the impact of lean approach in pharmaceutical supply chain.- Portable optokinetic stimulator for vestibular rehabilitation.- Modeling and simulation of French extended white plan: A hospital evacuation before a forecasted flood.- Using simulation to analyze patient flows in a hospital emergency department in Hong Kong.- Managing a fleet of ambulances to respond to emergency andtransfer patient transportation demands.