High Fidelity Modeling and Two-Time-Scale Analysis for Hospital Inpatient Flow Management
J.G. Dai
Professor of Operations Research, Cornell University
Edenfield Professor of ISyE, Georgia Tech (on leave)
Monday, October 14
4:15 - 5:15 PM
Spilker 143
Abstract:
After being treated in an emergency department, a patient's
waiting time for admission to inpatient wards depends on time of the
day, and can be excessively long when the patient's bed-request is in
the morning. I will promote a stochastic network model that is based
on an extensive empirical study and present a two-time-scale approach
to analyzing such a model. This analysis allows one to evaluate
strategies such as inpatient discharge timing and overflow policies on
the time-dependent waiting time statistics.
This talk is based on joint work with Pengyi Shi.
Operations Research Colloquia: http://or.stanford.edu/oras_seminars.html