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Planning and Scheduling in Health Care

In: Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services

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  • Michael L. Pinedo

    (Stern School of Business New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences)

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In most countries the health care industry represents a significant percentage of the Gross National Product. With the aging of the population, health care costs have been going up considerably over the last couple of decades. For these reasons, many governments have begun to look into the productivity of their health care industries. Health care productivity is to a great extent based on the proper planning and scheduling of all the activities involved. The variety in planning and scheduling processes in health care turns out to be immense. This chapter focuses on just a few of these processes. This chapter also considers other planning and scheduling problems that are of importance in health care. For example,the planning and scheduling of radiotherapy treatments (which is a special case of an appointment scheduling problem). Another example of a planning and scheduling problem in a health care setting that is considered in this chapter is the assignment of physicians to emergency room shifts. This problem is a special case of a workforce scheduling problem. (Workforce scheduling and staffing will be considered in more detail in the next chapter.)

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  • Michael L. Pinedo, 2009. "Planning and Scheduling in Health Care," Springer Books, in: Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 291-316, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4419-0910-7_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0910-7_12
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