Bélanger V., Lahrichi N., Lanzarone E., Yalcindag S. (Eds.) Health Care Systems Engineering: HCSE, Montréal, Canada, May 30 - June 1, 2019

Springer, 2020. — 294 p. — (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 316). — ISBN: 978-3-030-39693-0.This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE 2019), which took place in Montreal, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2019. The event took place in the mother and child university hospital CHU Sainte-Justine in Montréal, and each session was co-chaired by a discussant coming from the clinical practice.
The conference offered scientists and practitioners an opportunity to discuss operations management issues in health care delivery systems, and to share new ideas, methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.
Focusing on applications of systems engineering, optimization and statistics to improve health care delivery and health systems, the book covers topics relating to a broad spectrum of concrete problems that pose challenges for researchers and practitioners alike, including hospital drug logistics, operating theatre management, blood donation, home care services, modeling, simulation, process mining and data mining in patient care and health care organizations.Non-emergency Patient Transfer Scheduling and Assignment
Optimizing Operator’s and Users’ Objectives in Non-emergency Patients Transportation
Modelling Hospital Medical Wards to Address Patient Complexity: A Case-Based Simulation-Optimization Approach
Benefits of a Broader View: Capturing the Hospital-Wide Impact of Surge Policies with Discrete-Event Simulation
Coxian Phase-Type Regression Models for Understanding the Relationship Between Patient Attributes, Overcrowding, and Length of Stay in Hospital Emergency Departments
A Realistic Simulation Model of Montreal Emergency Medical Services
A Two-Phase Approach to the Emergency Department Physician Rostering Problem
Using a Slotted Queuing Model to Compare the Efficacy of Emergency Departments Operating with and Without a Physician in Rural Communities
A Meta Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning: Emergency Medical Service Resource Prioritization Problem in an MCI as an Example
Facing Implementation Barriers to Healthcare Simulation Studies
Reallocating Operating Room Time: A Portuguese Case
Evaluating Replenishment Systems for Disposable Supplies at the Operating Theater: A Simulation Case Study
Stochastic Master Surgical Scheduling Under Ward Uncertainty
Integration of User’s Preferences into the Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling Multi-objective Problem: A Hierarchical Approach with Pareto-Optimal Alternative Solutions
A Two-Phase Method for Robust Home Healthcare Problem: A Case Study
Adverse Event Prediction by Telemonitoring and Deep Learning
Mass Casualty Events: A Decision Making Tool for Home Health Care to Discharge Conventional Hospitals
Simultaneous Optimization of Appointment Grid and Technologist Scheduling in a Radiology Center
A Mathematical Programming Model for Radiotherapy Scheduling with Time Windows
Pattern-Based Online Algorithms for a General Patient-Centred Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem
Multi-level Heuristic to Optimize the Chemotherapy Production and Delivery
Acuity-Based Access Time Evaluation in Primary Care: A Case Study of an Ontario Clinic
Uncertainty in the Blood Donation Appointment Scheduling: Key Factors and Research Perspectives