Optimization Days 2019

HEC Montréal, May 13-15, 2019

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HEC Montréal, 13 — 15 May 2019

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TA1 A Thirty Years War: What it takes to get healthcare organizations to use OR (Sally Brailsford)

May 14, 2019 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Location: Amphithéâtre Banque Nationale

1 Presentation

  • 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

    A Thirty Years War: What it takes to get healthcare organizations to use OR

    • Sally Brailsford, presenter, University of Southampton

    Healthcare systems have been a massively popular application area for OR modelling since the 1950s. Nevertheless, there are surprisingly few reported examples where model results have actually been implemented in practice, compared with manufacturing industry, defence, or even other service industries like call centres or airlines. Many researchers, including me, have studied this conundrum and have attempted to explain it and identify the barriers, facilitators and possible solutions. In this talk I reflect on my personal experiences of success (hardly any) and failure (lots) in getting modelling used in practice over a 30-year career in OR, and address the question: Is healthcare really so very different from other sectors?

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