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Operations Research Applications in Home Healthcare

In: Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling

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  • Ashlea Bennett Milburn

    (University of Arkansas)

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The home health care industry is an important component of health care systems that have the potential to lower the system-wide costs of delivering care, and free capacity in overcrowded acute care settings such as hospitals. Demand is doubling, but resources are scarce. A nursing shortage and near-zero profit margins hinder the ability of home care agencies to meet the increasing patient demand. The effective utilization of resources is vital to the continued availability of home care services. There is tremendous opportunity for the operations research community to address the challenges faced by home care agencies to improve their ability to meet as much patient demand as possible. This chapter describes tactical and operational planning problems arising in home health care, and discusses alternative configurations of home health supply chains. Formulations for home health nurse districting, home health nurse routing and scheduling, and home health supply chain problems are presented, and the relevant literature is reviewed. Recent developments in remote monitoring technologies that could change the home health care landscape are discussed, and future research directions are proposed.

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  • Ashlea Bennett Milburn, 2012. "Operations Research Applications in Home Healthcare," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Randolph Hall (ed.), Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling, chapter 0, pages 281-302, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4614-1734-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1734-7_11
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    1. Mohamed Cissé & Semih Yalçindag & Yannick Kergosien & Evren Sahin & Christophe Lenté & Andrea Matta, 2017. "OR problems related to Home Health Care: A review of relevant routing and scheduling problems," Post-Print hal-01736714, HAL.
    2. Mesut Yavuz & Ismail Çapar, 2017. "Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Adoption in Service Fleets: Impact Evaluation Through Optimization Modeling," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 51(2), pages 480-493, May.
    3. Daniela Guericke & Leena Suhl, 2017. "The home health care problem with working regulations," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 39(4), pages 977-1010, October.
    4. Zhan, Yang & Wang, Zizhuo & Wan, Guohua, 2021. "Home service routing and appointment scheduling with stochastic service times," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(1), pages 98-110.
    5. Gang Du & Chuanwang Sun, 2015. "Location Planning Problem of Service Centers for Sustainable Home Healthcare: Evidence from the Empirical Analysis of Shanghai," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-21, November.
    6. Tsang, Man Yiu & Shehadeh, Karmel S., 2023. "Stochastic optimization models for a home service routing and appointment scheduling problem with random travel and service times," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(1), pages 48-63.
    7. Schücking, Maximilian & Jochem, Patrick, 2020. "Two-stage stochastic program optimizing the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles in commercial fleets," Working Paper Series in Production and Energy 50, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Industrial Production (IIP).

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