In this article, we describe representative contributions in several major application areas of
data analytics in operations management to summarize the recent development, discuss the …

Overtime is a common phenomenon in surgery departments, causing stress to physicians,
dissatisfaction to patients, and financial loss to hospitals. We help risk-averse managers of …

Increasing demand for hospitalization requires hospitals to optimize the admission
schedules of elective patients to minimize operation cost and improve service quality. In this …

This paper aims to optimise healthcare resource pre-positioning, patient scheduling, and
patient transferring under uncertain demands and stochastic resource consumption. We …

We consider a general multi-period repositioning problem in vehicle-sharing networks such
as bicycle-sharing systems, free-float car-sharing systems, and autonomous mobility-on …

Physician rescheduling for a short term is common and critical when the guideline schedule
for a long-term horizon needs adjustments. However, this topic is less studied in the …

We study the problem of advance scheduling of ward admission requests in a public
hospital, which affects the usage of critical resources such as operating theaters and …

One of the critical issues in healthcare management is the operating room (OR) scheduling
problem. Solutions to this problem consider surgery durations and allocate elective …

Aim. This study intends to improve the arrangement of hospital beds, make rational use of
limited beds to minimize the time for patients to seek medical care, improve service quality …

With the aggravation of the shortage of staffing hospital beds, elective surgeries have to be
postponed or even cancelled, which directly affects hospital income and patient health …