Category: Healthcare

From improved access to life-saving care, to better better treatment outcomes for a wide range of conditions, to helping at risk populations receive care when they need it most, O.R. and analytics are being leveraged in myriad ways to improve health and wellness across the globe.

February 2019

In this episode we will learn how O.R. and analytics are helping the men and women of law enforcement and the corrections systems, from improving the health of prison inmates, to simplifying the assignment of inmates to the appropriate prison, to helping New York city police men and women better predict and respond to crime. Joining us for this episode are Tamas Terlaky, president of Optamo and professor at Lehigh University, Mohammad Shahabsafa, chief operating officer at Optamo and Anshul Sharma, chief information officer at Optamo, who share their INFORMS Wagner Prize award-winning research on improving inmate scheduling for the…

Tags: Alex Chohlas-Wood, Anshul Sharma, Evan Levine, Georgia Tech, Hepatitis C, inmate scheduling, Lehigh University, Mohammad Shahabsafa, NYPD, Optamo, predicting crime patterns, Tamas Terlaky, Turgay Ayer

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November 2018 Part-2

This is the second of two special podcasts produced this month, both recorded during the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting. We spoke to a number of INFORMS member who presented during the meeting on topics that highlight the ways O.R. and analytics are being used to save lives, save money and solve problems. In this episode, we discuss how O.R. and analytics are providing valuable insight into some of the most complex problems facing our world today, from improving aviation security pre-check procedures with Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, protecting the security of elections in the U.S. with Natalie…

Tags: Natalie Scala, Sheldon Jacobson, Sommer Gentry, Towson University, U.S. Naval Academy, University of Illinois

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November 2018 Part 1

This month, we will be producing two special podcasts, both recorded during the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting. We will be speaking to a number of INFORMS member who are presenting during the meeting on topics that highlight the ways O.R. and analytics are being used to save lives, save money and solve problems. In this episode, we will be discussing how O.R. and analytics are providing valuable insight into some of the most complex problems facing our world today, from calculating the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. with former INFORMS president, Member in Chief and Yale University professor…

Tags: Ed Kaplan, Gino Lim, Kayse Lee Maass, Northeastern University, University of Houston, Yale University

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September 2018

In this episode, we explore three unique ways that operations research and analytics are being used to save lives, save money, and solve problems. Our guests include John Dickerson of the University of Maryland and Tuomas Sandholm of Carnegie Mellon University whose research on improving kidney exchange success could significantly improve the number of successful kidney transplants; Eva Lee of the Georgia Institute of Technology whose research in pediatric heart surgery has unexpectedly provided new insight to help fight America’s opioid epidemic; and Tallys Yunes of the Miami Business School who has some very valuable insight that can help all…

Tags: Carnegie Mellon University, Eva Lee, fantasy football, Georgia Institute of Technology, heart surgery, John Dickerson, kidney transplants, Miami Business School, organ donation, pediatric surgery, Tallys Yunes, Tuomas Sandholm, University of Maryland

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