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8 - Analytics-Driven Capacity Management

Principles and Practical Lessons from Projects at Three Hospitals

from Part II - Optimizing Healthcare Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

Sze-chuan Suen
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
David Scheinker
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Eva Enns
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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This chapter provides an introduction to analytics-driven hospital capacity management through three projects that employed mathematical programming and discrete event simulation to address common challenges. The first project used mathematical programming to identify the mix of patients at Stanford Hospital that would maximize revenue given the capacity of hospital resources after a planned hospital expansion. The second project used discrete event simulation to plan the physical capacity and operational profile of a new procedural space at a hospital in New England. The third project combined mathematical programming and discrete event simulation to create a tool to schedule surgical procedures at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.

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Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Analytics-driven Improvements in a Post-COVID World
, pp. 159 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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