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 concerning;
- jointly initiating 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 stragegy is to apply methods and quantitative decision support from Operational Management to health care sector. We belive 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 high efficiency to less cost
Please feel free to join!
International Workshop on Healthcare Operations Management
Written by Tomas Eric Nordlander |
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Call for Papers: The MSOM Society and its Special Interest Group (SIG) in Healthcare Operations Management invite researchers, clinicians, and healthcare executives to attend and participate in an international workshop focused on cutting-edge issues at the interface (broadly defined) between healthcare and operations management. The workshop will be held at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel on Sunday, June 27, 2010. The workshop will be followed by the two-day MSOM conference.
The number of healthcare papers presented at INFORMS conferences has increased dramatically over the last five years. Many of these presentations involve concepts and/or tools from the field of operations management. This will be the first INFORMS-related conference devoted to this important interface. We expect to attract faculty, clinicians, and healthcare executives from a wide variety of academic departments, as well as from a large number of countries. Read more...
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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. |
