Chronic disease patients often require revisits for long-term care. Online medical services
shift revisits to online, which can improve the access to chronic care and reduce the burden …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

We study elective surgery planning in flexible operating rooms (ORs) where emergency
patients are accommodated in the existing elective surgery schedule. Specifically, elective …

Emergency department (ED) physicians have long been in short supply, which causes
serious overcrowding and the excessive waiting of patients in many countries. ED managers …

An algorithm for the two-stage robust optimization surgery-to-operating room allocation
problem is presented. The second-stage problem is an integer linear program whose …

The failures of high-consequence systems can cause serious harm to humans, including
loss of human health, life security, finance, and even social chaos. To protect high …

This article studies a dynamic advance scheduling problem where multi-type patients arrive
randomly to book the future service of a diagnostic facility in a public healthcare setting. The …

We propose combined allocation, assignment, sequencing, and scheduling problems under
uncertainty involving multiple operation rooms (ORs), anesthesiologists, and surgeries as …

This paper proposes an operating room (OR) scheduling model to assign a group of next-
day patients to ORs while adhering to OR availability, priorities, and OR overtime …

Internet healthcare provides a new access way for revisits through texts or videos, which can
lighten the service load on offline hospitals. In this study, we investigate the dynamic …