The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) will host its first conference on healthcare in Montreal this June. INFORMS Healthcare 2011 takes place at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montr-al from June 20-22.
The topics will range from improving the scheduling of patients at clinics to shortening ambulance response times to using new algorithms for beaming radiation at cancer cells.
The conference is a new INFORMS thematic conference on the health sector that brings together researchers and stakeholders to elaborate on current challenges. It will include current research in healthcare operations research and analytics; presentations by leading researchers and practitioners; a cross-cultural view of healthcare systems and operational impacts; and a structured networking lunch.
Over 400 abstracts have been submitted on topics that include
- Capacity and patient flow management
- Data mining and health informatics
- Emergency medical services
- Healthcare delivery systems
- Healthcare operations management
- Healthcare supply chains
- Improving patient flow through capacity planning and scheduling
- Medical decision making
- Modeling and optimization
- Operations research for public health
- Pharmaceutical applications
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Transplant operations
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