Industrial engineering for healthcare services is a scientific field dedicated to the application of industrial engineering and operational research techniques to the healthcare domain. The goal of this module is to present some of the most relevant data-driven organizational problems in healthcare systems, and the industrial engineering techniques that can be applied or adapted to solve such problems.
| On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of: | Classification level | Priority |
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| To model a decision-support problem using linear programming | 3. Apply | Important |
| To model a patient care process | 3. Apply | Important |
| To understand and evaluate the performance of healthcare processes | 2. Understand | Essential |
| To apply decision support methods for healthcare logistics and personnel planning | 3. Apply | Essential |
| To analyze the quality of solutions for re-engineering of healthcare systems | 4. Analyse | Essential |
| To analyze healthcare data prior to modeling | 4. Analyse | Essential |
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| Course | Contenu, séquencement et organisation Healthcare data analytics Speaker : Julia Fleck Duration : 12h Course description: This course presents important issues in the healthcare data analytics pipeline. The following topics will be covered: - Methods to examine and describe healthcare data: dimensionality reduction and automatic classification techniques; - Methods to prepare healthcare data for subsequent use: feature selection techniques and how to deal with missing data; - Methods to use healthcare data for predictive purposes.
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| Course | Organization and control of patient pathway and healthcare systems Speaker : Xiaolan Xie Duration : 12h Course description: This course presents the main issues encountered in the organization and control of healthcare systems. The following areas are examined: activity planning, human resource management and healthcare supply chain. The main topics covered are: - Healthcare organization environment: demand forecasting, organization of hospitals, location of services. - Activity planning: operating theatre management, programmed activities management, surgery scheduling and re-scheduling, healthcare stay planning, appointment planning with emergency constraints. - Human resource management: medical team conception, healthcare resource planning, transportation and supply chain management for home care. |
| Course | Home healthcare and logistics Speaker : Thierry Garaix Duration : 12h Course description: This course presents formal methods to better model and control home healthcare systems and associated areas of interest, such as logistics, workforce scheduling at home, and economic balance of home healthcare structures. |
| Supervised studies | Performance evaluation of healthcare systems Speaker : Vincent Augusto Duration : 12h Course description: This course presents engineering and re-engineering management tools for healthcare systems. The following problems are examined: resource sizing using stochastic models, healthcare production system sizing and benchmarking, performance evaluation and control. The main topics covered are: - Engineering and re-engineering of healthcare production systems. - Modeling and simulation of complex healthcare systems. - Human resource sizing using simulation. - Benchmarking and performance evaluation of healthcare product systems using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). - Control of healthcare systems taking into account T2A, performance evaluation, and continuous quality improvement. |