Question

David is a healthcare administration leader who manages the operations of a long-term care facility. Within the past 6 months, long-term care patients and residents have experienced an increased number of hospital readmissions due to ongoing acute infections. In striving to ensure effective healthcare delivery and patient safety, David is seeking to use optimization as an analytic technique to determine how to best implement workflow processes to have clinical staff and physicians dedicate time to routine history and full-body observation to help prevent ongoing acute infections. Considering the value of optimization techniques in assisting healthcare administration leaders in providing quality patient care and safe

Could you show me a description of some problems that might lend themselves to optimization in your health services organization or one with which you are familiar, and explain why. Then, set up a fictitious optimization problem that would save one of the problems (e.g., Max z = a1x1 + a2x2, subject to constraints). Be specific, and provide examples.

Answer 1

Optimization of health care system is not an easy task.The basic goal of this program is to improve patients experience,minimize the cost and to improve patient care.It is very important to train the health care professionals to work as a team to find out patients problems from its early stage.Teach them about the importance of being pro active and need of good decision making. Early identification of problems will help us to reduce our cost also.For example:If a healthcare provider is able to pick up a disease condition or a environmental hazard from the very first point ,they will be able to fix the problem effectively.More over it will give us higher patients satisfaction and cost effectiveness.Team work of health care professionals can bring optimization in health care system.It is important to cultivate this culture among the team in the beginning.