The February-edition of the ISE-Magazine features recent research results of Prof. Kolisch and co-authors, which has appeared in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (Volume 12, No. 4). In the paper Prof. Kolisch (TUM), Prof. Uzsoy (North Carolina State University), and Paul Sutterer
present a data-driven approach to derive the time-dependent value of hospital resources using an optimization model to admit and dynamically schedule patients. They used a large data set of patients treated over one year in a hospital to derive the value of resources under different demand and resource scenarios,and found that the model yields resource valuations that are qualitatively different from conventional approaches. The article in the ISE-magazine can be obtained here ,