Planning support in OR management
From an economic point of view, the operating theater is the heart of a hospital. This is where the services with the highest revenues are provided and where high material and equipment costs are incurred.
The efficient integration of surgical procedures into everyday clinical processes and the optimal distribution of the resources required for them help to reduce costs. This significantly increases the efficiency of medical facilities.
However, the creation of surgical plans is a very complex task, as numerous boundary conditions and planning requirements have to be taken into account. These include, for example, the availability of specialist staff, rooms and materials. With manual planning, as is usually the case today, it is hardly possible to take into account the diverse, sometimes contradictory target values (e.g. room utilization, minimization of overtime, minimization of patient waiting times).
The aim of the "Planning support in OR management" project is therefore to support the creation of occupancy plans for elective operations using multi-criteria optimization methods. With the help of the new optimization methods to be developed, special attention will be paid to strategies for taking unexpected events into account (e.g. longer operating times than planned, emergencies).