About COMiHC
Centre of Operations Management within Health Care (COMiHC) is an open organisation that focuses on quantitative decision support for planning and management within heath care. The site will be a meeting place where you
- jointly identify areas with large improvement potential;
- jointly initiate research projects;
- jointly work on software prototypes, reports, articles, education;
- transfer of knowledge, experience, and results between members;
Our vision is that COMiHC will be financially independent, virtual resource centre for health organisation in Norway and Scandinavia. Also, the knowledge derived from the organisation should be generic and public. Part of our strategy is to apply methods and quantitative decision support from Operational Management to health care sector. We believe that this along with transfer of data, information, knowledge, and experience between members would lead to better resource management and management control; this in turn improve the quality of health. We hope to show that more efficient resource management and control will lead to higher efficiency and to less cost
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BeAct
Written by Erik Lien Johnsen |
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The aim of the project BeAct is to automate shift design/scheduling for hospitals. Shift design/scheduling is the process of making a schedule containing shifts that cover the demand for workers while satisfying a set of other requirements. The requirements are many, and the number of possible solutions too vast for a manual approach-finding a solution manually is possible, but it is unlikely to be an optimal solution. Part of the challenge we have tackled is to formalize the set of requirements in a mathematical model-it is critical for the optimization to include all of the actual requirements, and not only simplified versions or just those that are easy to formulate. In BeAct, we have used a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) approach. Through a continuous dialog with several Norwegian hospitals we have built the model with variables, constraints, and objectives. Some of the objectives included are: minimization of personnel cost; minimization of the total number of different shifts; matching with the contracted working hours; even distribution of excess capacity. Constraints included are: a maximum of different shifts to be used during different periods; overlap between shifts; a common leaving time for all day shifts; one main shift with most of the workers each day. Read more...
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The HOSPITAL project
Written by Martin Stølevik |
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HOSPITAL (Health care Optimisation Software for PlannIng, rosTering, And scheduLing) is a five year research project mainly funded by The Research Council of Norway. The industrial partners Gatsoft AS and DIPS ASA are co-funding the project. The main objective in the project is to further develop and disseminate world leading competence in high-performance, robust and adaptable optimization methods for decision support in health care planning software. The competence is needed to meet strategic goals of higher efficiency and service levels in the health sector, and to facilitate innovation in the tool vendor industry. We shall focus on two specific, highly challenging, important planning tasks: personnel rostering and surgery scheduling. Optimization methods will be incrementally developed and assessed via prototypes. A generic optimization library and implementation guide will ensure wide dissemination and exploitation of the methodology, also outside of the health sector.
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